Woo hoo! 🙂 Over the last 6 months we have seen a complete turn around of ACS (Australian Computer Society), in large because of the President Edward Mandla who has a rabid interest in Open Source. Edward seemed to feel that Open Source has a great future, without knowing exactly what it is. Enter the community! I was approached to help ACS get some policy on Open Source, and I pulled together some of the Open Source community to advise ACS including people from several LUGs, AUUG, ACS, and some legal support. We published our drafts to the linux-aus mailing list, spoke to several organisations on it, and came up with some suggestions for ACS, as a team. We were happy to work with ACS, and I wish more organisations would turn to the community for their information on Open Source. It is where the expertise is, after all 🙂
The ACS Policy was presented to the public about 2 weeks ago. Enjoy 🙂