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Jan Husar | Rejden has recently developed some activism for open standards in governmental informatisation in Slovakia.

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rejden report 16-12-2005

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• Newspapers propaganda:
  • two articles regarding Free Information Infrastructure and how the goverment is forcing us to buy propietary software
    • Proprietary software is fine, as soon as it respects interoperability and open standards for file formats and protocols --zoobab
• Lobbying with Goverment, Council and Politicians
  • official skosi.org meeting with few slovak politicians
• Office (academic ground together with skosi.org)
  • Speech at Slovak Information Infrastructure Event (Goverment oriented)
• will happen next tuesday at i2s conference (informatization of slovak goverment)
  • Participating Lawyer
• from ministry of justice
  • Really good article in newspapers about how the informatization has been done to Microsoft XML propietary way, and how the people are forced to use propietary software to be able use the eTax solution which is paid from our taxes.
• 18/19.10.2005 - i2s (www.i2s.sk) Goverment conference about Informatisation of Slovakia
• meeting with members of slovak informatisations comittee

• Press Meeting at 04.11 with Sun Microsystems and SK OpenOffice.org about OpenOffice 2.0 release, OpenDocument standtarts and free information infrastructure

• from "Ministry of Telecomunication, communications and post" informatisation committe members we havea good proposal of geting me into informatisation committe

• Speech at Biggest Open Source event in sk (Press, regular and technical people) (http://www.sklug.sk/lugcon13/)

• Speech at Open Knowledge hearing at European Parliament in Strasbourg 15-16.11.2005

• Panel at ITAPA conference at 21-22.november (http://www.itapa.sk/index.php?ID=96)

• Linux Conference, presentation of OpenOffice2.0, Towards Free Information Infrastructure, UbuntuLinux Slovakia

• 15/11/2005 Open Knowledge Hearing, European Parliament / Strasbourg
• 24-29/11/2005 meeting European Commission and MEPs
• 05-06/12/2005 Info Stand at E-Business: a Way forward conference of European Commission in Cambridge /UK
• EOTA proposal and discussions (European Open Technology Alliance)
• 07/12/2005 Data Business Ecosystem Project Meeting in London /UK
• 07/12/2005 European Open Source Groups meeting in London /UK
• 12/12/2005 Open Source Academy UK meeting in London /UK
• 13/12/2005 Open Society Institute (Foundation) meeting in London /UK

Points planned

• TV spot
• More articles in newspapers
• Analyse of open protocols for goverment

Support Needed

• lawyer
• press meeting
• finance for running (phones, meetings, press meeting, propaganda material)