"Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild" repentinus@fsfe.org escribió:
Dear Andrés,
On 09/10/13 19:35, Andres wrote:
I am new to the mailing list, I have cut out contact details but it involves libraries in the UK.
Welcome!
The venue is appropriate, but when forwarding a long e-mail exchange to a list, it would be rather decent to briefly summarise it.
Note taken, sorry, it does make sense.
In regard to the substance, am I correct that your e-mail exchange does not deal with the general situation in the UK, but with the local situation in a particular municipality?
Yes.
If that is the case, I would pick a few technically minded council members and attempt to set up a meeting with them to explain the problem. If you can get them to bring up the issue at a council meeting, it will, at minimum, raise awareness of the problem, which might be enough to get the council move its libraries towards Free Software.
OK, I will start finding out who is who.
You also mention British FS companies in your original e-mail. Are there any who would benefit if the council moved to FS? Maybe you could contact one of those and ask them for help with lobbying?
I can think of canonical and foss box, the latter might be easier.
On a more general note, do you know how common the problem is in general? Are there any municipalities making use of Free Software, especially on their public computers?
Not that I know of, I did mention munich and the french police incthe face to face canversation.
Thank you!