How can Canada take a leading role in FOSS?

[Evan Leibovitch]

[ this was originally sent as private email to Aaron in response to his mail; however after he and I got into some lively two-way discussion it seemed reasonable to make the points to a wider audience. ]


Aaron Vegh wrote:

>Much better to rally the support of as many like-minded individuals as
>we can, and start a foundation, a Canadian FSF for example.


Hello Aaron.

What you suggest is exactly what we're trying to do with the 
revival-in-progress at CLUE.

The idea here was to be a little more inclusive than a Canadian FSF, in 
that there is a substantial component of the open source community here 
that is GPL-hostile (the significant BSD and Perl communities, for 
instance). CLUE chose that it was better to be inclusive, and to work to 
support as much of the community as possible.

CLUE has already enlisted the support of academics and policy makers to 
help us develop reasonable, coherent positions that can be advanced in 
Ottawa and elsewhere. We are working with CIPPIC on Ottawa and KMDI in 
Toronto, and folks like Micheal Geist are on our Advisory Council. Some 
of our supporters in parliament hill are already working from the inside :-)

To get more of an idea of where we're at, have a look at
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=37960
http://www.cluecan.ca/goals
http://www.cluecan.ca/projects
http://www.cluecan.ca/background

Anyone interesting in helping is achieve these goals, though helping with one of our projects or assisting with the website development is certainly welcomed.

- Evan





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