[ZopeUK - Public] Re: [Zauk] OSS Speacial Interest Group Presentation July 1st

[Aidan M McGuire]

1/ Seb - points taken and will amend. 

2/ Suggested change - I was also thinking of adding something along
lines of ...

introduction
when you look back in history and you think of the great projects it was
done by people not companies. So when one looks at St Pauls Cathedral
you dont think of "Grumbles and Grumbles Builders of Whitefriars" -
rather you think Christopher Wren. The same is true of great bridges for
example over the First of Forth - you dont think "Mackintock and Gruber
plc" rather people think Brunell. The analogy I am thinking to make here
is that in prior times it was individuals who brought us great advances
and that in terms of open source these gov people need to get out of
the  mindset of TT&T plc and instead think more in terms of great
individuals.

protection for the client
The other thing i was thinking to pick up on was the point that was to
us about cover in the event of bankruptcy of oss companies. I have done
some checking and both an insurance a banking option may be able to be
put in place to insure companies who are members of the association. Its
similar to the idea of bonds given by builders or performance bonds
given by companies or travel premiums paid by travel agencies.

both ideas may be slightly potty so please shout.

Aidan

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:40, Seb Bacon wrote:
> Hi Aidan,
> 
> A couple of minor suggestions....
> 
> 1) Slide 6: Our objective today
> 
> I wonder if we should just change the title from "our objectives today" 
> to "our objectives"..?  It's not clear to me that we'll have much of a 
> chance to do much other than make this presentation and we might look 
> like we're making assumptions about our audience..?
> 
> 2) ZopeUK / Zope
> 
> Although last time we made a presentation we removed most Zope-specific 
> references, I think it will appear strange if we don't explain the 
> relevance of the word "Zope" in our name?  Perhaps in slide 4 we could 
> change the last point to "To provide a forum for the exchange of 
> non-competitive information regarding the Open Source Zope application 
> server"..?
> 
> seb
> 
> 
> Aidan M McGuire wrote:
> > Following on from the last meeting Seb and I attended we have an
> > opportunity to present to the OSS Special Interest Group Presentation at
> > the office of the e-envoy on the 1st of July. If its possible i would
> > appreciate peoples views on this presentation we are thinking of
> > giving.  I have uploaded the presentation. If you think something needs
> > adding please give the title and sub heading.
> > 
> > http://www.zopeuk.org/Members/amcguire/zopeuk%20e-envoy%20presentation.ppt/download
> > 
> > If i have made any mistakes or missed something out ... please advise.
> > 
> > Aidan
> > 
> > ps you can tell - i am not a graphics person from my colour scheme and
> > font choice so if someone has a template they think i should use please
> > send to me (mind - i use open office)
> > 
> > pps would people be interested if we made the point that we are planning
> > to lobby that the tender for new House of Commons web site is made open
> > to oss companies 
> > 
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