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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Gavin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You did register us on the <st1:place
w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> list didn’t you. I understood that you had.
If not, I need to register!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Gavin Fleming<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 11, 2007
8:13 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> foss4g2008loc@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Foss4g2008loc] FW:
[OSGeo Africa] South African government freeand open source software policy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For those of you not on
the <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> list, see the latest on SA’s
Open Source policy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Kate
Lance</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 10 October 2007 05:28 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSGEO-Africa<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> SDI-Africa<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [OSGeo Africa] South
African government free and open sourcesoftware policy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can someone give me an indication
of how the South African government free and open
source software policy affects (or will affect) geospatial software
procurement (and government supported
software-development)? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If the policy does (or eventually will) extend to
geospatial software, then how will those making procurement decisions
judge whether proprietary software is "significantly superior" or not
(has SITA prepared criteria/guidelines for such evaluation)?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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target="_blank">http://www.apc.org/english/rights/africa/?apc=he_1&x=5193463</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>South African government free and open source
software policy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>October 6, 2007: The Chief Technology Officer of the
South African State Information Technology Agency (SITA), announced the launch
of the government-wide free and open source programme at the GovTech conference
held early September. While many welcomed the February announcement of
government's intention to adopt and promote open source software, the
subsequent months saw disillusionment within the open source community that
very little had actually happened. Sita's Daniel Mashao addressed these
worries, describing what had been happening behind the scenes and showing a
systematic timetable of how this process will indeed be implemented. He
outlined the government's policy. The five key points are: 1) Choose FOSS, 2)
Migrate to FOSS, 3) Develop in FOSS, 4) Use FOSS/open content licensing, and 5)
Promote FOSS in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Under the policy, when introducing new software, the SA government will
implement open source solutions unless a proprietary option is demonstrated to
be "significantly superior". In any instances where proprietary
software is implemented, reasons must be given to justify its use. Migration of
current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased approach,
beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open Office or
KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in time lead up
to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux distribution. Migration
to Apache for the running of government websites has already occurred within a
number of departments. All new software developed for or by the government is
to be based on open standards and licensed under an open source licence where
possible. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>See: Policy on Free and Open Source Software use for
South African Government - approved by Cabinet on 22 February 2007, <a
href="http://www.oss.gov.za/FOSS_OC_POLICY_2006.pdf" target="_blank"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>http://www.oss.gov.za/FOSS_OC_POLICY_2006.pdf</span></font></a> <a
href="http://www.oss.gov.za/" target="_blank"></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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