[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [CRIS Info] article "Open Source Ardor Cools at WSIS"

Wed Oct 15 15:24:36 BST 2003

Hi there, 

Hola Carlos, pues  si tenemos interes en este documento. Estamos en un proceso de recaudar mucho de lo que se hace en este campo. Son muchos los partenarios que estan trabajando sobre aplicaciones en particular en lo que son CMS en libre.Todos los documentos, recursos y articulos seran integrados en nuestro portal multilingue (en proceso de pasar en libre)  para el cual estamos abiertos a sindicacion 

Hay en este momento una multitud de congresos tanto practicos como teoricos sobre el tema de la PI y del libre (ver http://www.i3c-asso.org ) Tenemos uno en Montreal la semana que viene. Otro congreso  mas practico que teorico que deben ya conocer es el de Plone en Nueva Orleans http://plone.org/events/conferences/1 
Un saludo fraternal. 

Alain Ambrosi
Président-directeur
Carrefour mondial de l'internet citoyen 
World Forum on Community Networks
http://www.globalcn.org

-----Message d'origine-----
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[mailto:Crisinfo-bounces at comunica.org]De la part de Carlos Afonso
Envoyé : 14 octobre, 2003 16:25
À : Sasha Costanza-Chock; 'alt.wsis at lists.riseup.net'
Cc : 'crisinfo at comunica.org'; 'plenary at wsis-cs.org'
Objet : Re: [CRIS Info] article "Open Source Ardor Cools at WSIS"

Dear Sasha, these fires are catching up strongly here in Brazil. I tried to 
send a small document to crisinfo on this but Myriam says attachments are 
not allowed, so if you or anyone else are interested, I can send it 
individually (English, PDF, 74 KB).

rgds

--c.a.

At 15:18 09/10/2003, Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
>It seems we'll have to restoke the fires of FLOSSy ardor...
>sc
>
>---
>Open Source Ardor Cools at WSIS
> >From Computerworld, October 9, 2003
>By Stephen Bell
>
>A push at a series of international "information society" conferences to
>adopt open source software as an aspect of electronic "common land" has
>assumed a lower profile with the apparent entry of lobbying from proprietary
>business interests.
>
>A "plan of action" being prepared for the December World Summit on the
>Information Society (WSIS) championed wide adoption of open source software
>in June.
>
>Suggested text in the draft then promoted open source awareness, the
>creation of intellectual property mechanisms supporting open source, and the
>formation of a UN "Programmers Without Frontiers" body to support open
>source software (OSS) in developing nations. "Open-source/free software
>shall be adopted by all public authorities and bodies," the draft stated
>ambitiously.
>
>The Club of Rome economic think-tank came out particularly strongly in
>favour of open source in its submission to WSIS in August. It labelled OSS
>as one of the "common goods of mankind" and an aid to advancing the
>productive use of ICT in developing countries, where proprietary software is
>particularly expensive in real terms.
>
>The latest form of the plan of action, however, replaces the open source
>endorsement with a recommendation to "encourage research and promote
>awareness among all stakeholders of the possibilities offered by different
>software models, and the means of their creation, including proprietary,
>open source and free software, in order to increase competition, freedom of
>choice and affordability, and to enable all stakeholders to evaluate which
>solution best meets their requirements."
>
>Observers at the latest preparatory conference to the summit (Prepcom-3) in
>Geneva, said the changes were made after input from several nations uneasy
>with excluding mentions of proprietary software from the plan, and from the
>business lobby, which came out strongly against open source.
>
>Delegates from the US and European Union, they said, were prominent among
>those asking that commercial software interests get a fair representation.
>
>The summit itself is due to be held in Geneva in December. Prepcom-3 was to
>have been the last preparatory conference, but emergency meetings have been
>scheduled next month to knock still vague documents riddled with alternative
>phraseology into a more definite shape before the summit.
>
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