New Hampshire legislation to consider Open Source (adding a cross post to dlslug)

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Tue Jan 10 09:02:00 EST 2006


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I sent a note to Roy Maxfield, my rep and a sponsoring
committee-member, but I haven't heard anything back.

- --Bruce

Python wrote:

|On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:35 -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
|
|>On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:53:30 -0500
|>Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
|>
|>>
|>>"New Potential Legislation
|>>An Act establishing a committee to study requiring NH state  
|>>government to consider using open source software when
|>
|>acquiring new  
|>
|>>software has been introduced.  
|>
|>Hopefully this will pass
|
|
|I kicked out an email to the Lebanon reps and got a phone call back from
|Laurie Harding who is on the legislative committee considering the bill.
|She asked me to produce a write-up providing some background
|information.  I plan to steal ideas and bullet points from the DLSLUG
|library book, "Succeeding with Open Source".  However, I suspect another
|issue is the RFP process commonly used for government purchases.  Many
|open source projects have no sales or marketing arm to deal with an RFP.
|Does anyone know if that really is an obstacle to getting open source to
|be considered in government?
|
|Also, Susan Almy replied to my email and said that Charlotte Quimby of
|Plainfield is also on the legislative committee.
|

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