Toronto Municipal Open Source Revolution, anyone ?

[Marcus Brubaker]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:35, Byron Sonne wrote:
> > I believe we'll do best if we contact the city on a corporate level - so a
> > consortium of small businesses could lead the charge.
> 
> I concurr; a business format to the matter would incurr better odds than 
> a pureley altruistic angle. But that is an opinion mostly.
> 
> OT, but case in point: when we put on theater during lunch period in 
> highschool (don't ask...) for *free*, basically no one showed. But when 
> we charged a dollar, we had alot more people. But if potential funding 
> did come for such an initiative it could indeed be in the form of 
> support fees, or salaries for staffing/contractors.
> 
> All the more intriguing now that I've been unemployed for a few weeks 
> with no immediate prospects that meet my needs (in terms of interest at 
> least). Is there somewhere (as relates to this particular/potential 
> initiative) that I could help out somehow, rather than just sitting here 
> idle? I don't mind shit-work if it really will make a difference; if 
> something needs to be done it needs to be done.

One thing would be research as I've mentioned before.  Start scrounging
up the information that will be needed to make a plan.  E.G. maybe dig
around the Toronto city website or make a few phone calls to see who the
person to talk to on this kind of thing would be.  There is an impromptu
list in another of my emails, but I'm too tired to reproduce it here.


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Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>

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