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[Steve Jenkin]

This 'Open Source Victoria' is really making things happen down there.

Is there something like this here in ACT?
Anyone in business out there want to set something up? :-)

cheers
sj

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> From: Con Zymaris <conz at cyber.com.au>
> To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au, talk at auug.org.au
> Subject: [Talk] OSV media release: Open Source Victoria receives Next Wave Funding
> Date: 19 Nov 2003 11:40:34 +1100
> 
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> 
> Open Source Victoria receives Next Wave Funding
> 
> NOVEMBER 17, Melbourne, Australia.The Open Source Victoria industry 
> cluster has secured a matching $50,000 grant as part of Multimedia 
> Victoria's Next Wave Program. The Next WaveProgram aims to identify and 
> promote emerging technologies in the Victorian IT industry. 
> 
> "With this funding, Victoria enhances its position as a natural centre for 
> Open Source solution provision in the region" said OSV member Con Zymaris.
> 
> OSV will use the grant to promote the use of Open Source technologies in 
> the Victorian industry, government, and education sectors. This includes:
> 
> - providing support, training and information on how to improve our
>   members' business effectiveness and their marketing and sales of Open
>   Source Software;
> 
> - making high quality Open Source software kits available to over 5000
>   Victorian business, government IT staff and educators and ICT industry
>   players;
> 
> - preparation of numerous reports providing industry and public sector 
>   firms with the machinery necessary to evaluate and migrate to OSS;
> 
> - fund and co-ordinate Australia's first Open Source programming 
>   competition for school-age kids, called Wide Open Code;
> 
> - offer a free information referral service for all Victorian schools who 
>   are seeking a better understanding of how Open Source software can be 
>   used in education;
> 
> - sponsor Australia's first ongoing virtual forum for the discussion of 
>   issues related to the deployment and development of Open Source 
>   solutions within the government and public sectors.
> 
> - run a series of focussed information exchange events, seminars and 
>   symposia in Melbourne and regional Victoria, to offer practical hands-on 
>   demonstrations of planning for and undertaking migrations to Open Source 
>   software.
> 
> "Open Source Software is in many cases technically superior to the
> proprietary alternatives -- but most business managers, small
> businesspeople, and even teachers may not be aware of these advantages,"  
> said Adam Clarke, another member of OSV. "Our goal is to be a resource of
> information about Open Source Software for the citizens of Victoria."
> 
> "OSV has been delighted with the enthusiasm shown by the Victorian
> Government for our proposal," said Zymaris. "By increasing the adoption of
> Open Source technologies in Victoria, we can actively grow the local ICT
> industry."
> 
> About Open Source Victoria.
> 
> Open Source Victoria is an Industry Cluster consisting of over 80 
> Victorian firms and developers which provide services and technology 
> related to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS.) Open Source Victoria 
> offers marketing, advocacy and information referral services, and aims to 
> raise the profile of FOSS in Victoria and work with other similar 
> organisations across Australia.
> 
> source: 
> http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=111
> 
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