Origins:

The "Proposición" Project was born on November 10, 1999 as an initiative of some members of the GrULiC with the objective of promoting government's use of Open Technologies [1].

This initiative strongly drew inspiration from:

• The ideas expressed in the article "CyberSnare", by  Roberto Di Cosmo (10/9/1998).
• The appearance of the first legislative bill for the use of Free Software in Government: "Proposition de loi 495" (Laffitte, Trégouet,Cabanel) [2] (10/11/1999).

The name "Proposición" was selected to honour the above mentioned French bill.
 

Online services:

The "Proposición" Project has available:

• a Web Site: (and its corresponding mirror) used to compile:
  • global documentation (references, news, government documents, fundaments, ...);
  • local information on Implementation of Open Technologies in the Argentine government (legislation, references, migrations, news, governmental sites, ...);
  • related sites.
  
  
• two mailing lists:
  • proposicion: it is the project's main mailing list, used as a forum for debate and information exchange related to the Project and its objetives.
  • migracion: it is a more specific mailing list, used for debates related to migrations from closed to open systems (implementations, experiences, projects, etc.)

Members:

Currently, the total number of members is 220 people, distributed all across Latin America and, to a lesser degree, in the USA and Europe. These members use the proposicion mailing list as a communication channel to exchange information and coordinate activities. Some of those activities include:

• to devise and promote legislative bills for the use of Free Software in the government;
• to advise legislators and government agencies;
• to diffuse (articles, presentations, internet newsgroups, etc...);
• to engace in advocacy;
• to counteract to FUD;
• to participate in project implementation involving open technologies;
• to compile information.

Notes:

[1]	"Open Technologies" refers to  Open Hardware, Free Software and Open Standard Formats
[2]	· French Senate newsgroup: http://www.senat.fr/consult/loglibre/index.htm. · Proposition de Loi 117 (Laffitte, Trégouet, Cabanel): http://www.senat.fr/leg/ppl99-117.html.

 

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