HB1197 Public Meeting

[Bruce Dawson]

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Bill McGonigle wrote:

| On Jan 17, 2006, at 23:28, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
|
|> Not sure if I'll be going, but I'm thinking about it. (I'm also not
|> 100%
|> sure if it's open to the public, but am 95% sure on it.) If others are
|> interested, I can confirm details.
|
| Would this be purely as a spectator sport? In other words, do we
| need one person to take notes or would a mass of warm bodies be
| somehow useful?

This is a work session; I believe the representatives would appreciate
more warm bodies when the bill goes to the Senate.

However, I recommend that one or two of us show up just to make sure
that closed-source providers haven't stacked the deck against
open-source by feeding FUD to the committee. And if they have, I'm not
sure what can be done about it during a working session - probably
call the reps afterwards and let your thoughts be known about their
"evaluation process".

If you want to go, do your homework first by reading:

~ http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2006/HB1197.html

They are evaluating open source to see if its cost- and operation-
competitive with non-open source alternatives.

|> Tuesday, Jan 24th:
|> 2:00 p.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1197,
|> establishing a
|> committee to study requiring state government to consider using open
|> source software when acquiring new software.
|
| So if this does call for a mob we could conceivably do this, have
| dinner, and still make the Quarterly Meeting.

I don't believe a mob would be welcome at this session - just one or
two knowledgeable people. I would think Redhat/SuSE/IBM/... would have
someone monitoring this bill.

- --Bruce

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