Re: [edlug] Short Talk for next meeting

[michael calwell <michael.calwell@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Bob Kerr wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have invited Patrick Harvie Member of the Scottish Parliament (Green 
> Party) along to our next meeting. I have asked him to give a very 
> brief talk (5mins). He has agreed to do this.
>
> Patrick uses SUSE and would be interested to meet people and have an 
> informal discussion on Linux and other people in the Free software and 
> Open source communities.
>
> I thought that this may be an interesting chance to get a  insight 
> into how our Parliament works and I believe he has a number of 
> questions about software that he would like answered too.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bob
I think it is fascinating to open up some of the strong ideological 
undercurrents that underpin the open source and FSF efforts. I find it 
quite hard to communicate to people in my life how and why I find these 
things important , and more importantly why others should consider them 
important too.

Having said that,  OSS is getting more and more press attention, 
especially since the SCO debacle, and barely a copy of The Economist 
passes without a mention. Perhaps people need to understand the issues 
more, and I think it's great that we have a green MSP involved!


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