[Osia-members] OSIA Members: Important Message from the OSIA Board & Member Request

[John Dalton]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 01:03 +1100, Carl Holden wrote:
> > Hello fellow Members,
> >
> > IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE OSIA BOARD & MEMBER REQUEST
>
> > The Board has received, and looks favourably upon, a proposal from OSIA
> > member Open Source Law (http://opensourcelaw.biz, a law firm operated by
> > Brendan Scott, who many will recall as one of our founders, and as
> > OSIA's longest serving past Chairman) to undertake suitable legal &
> > policy analyses leading to the drafting of generic position papers, for
> > OSIA's consideration, on IPR issues affecting the Australian FOSS
> > industry that may arise in trade treaties. These could form a basis on
> > which OSIA's responses to future proposed treaties could be drafted, and
> > could also serve in themselves as useful advocacy tools.
>
> 1.  It would be good if we could see the proposal you are asking us to
> support.
>
> 2. Have you considered approaching Linux Australia for a grant request?


In addition to Donna's questions, if the aim is to produce public policy
documents which could benefit the broader community then perhaps it would
be worth considering crowd-funding the development of these documents
through some service such as Pozible. ( http://pozible.com.au/ )

Yours,

John


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