Daniel Jitnah <djitnah@greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
Find below link to an article and petition in favour of Open Source in Dutch Education system. Sounds like a familiar story over there too!!
http://www.janstedehouder.nl/2011/09/28/make-the-use-of-open-standards-in-ed...
Perhaps we could try similar?
It is noted in the article that the government of the Netherlands already has a policy favourable to "open-source". I don't know, in the end, to what extent this makes the specific case at issue easier to argue. To my knowledge, no Australian government has instituted an "open-source" policy; the situation in the Netherlands is better to this extent. Obviously, this doesn't negate the value of the proposed campaigning strategy; the point, rather, is that the two policy environments are relevantly different.