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| DATE | 2004-01-06 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] I will be away for a few months...and looking for help in ICT policy
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So we can settle on the last weekend of January, the weekend with includes
the 31st of January and February 1st?
Ruben
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:44:31PM -0500, David Sugar wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 05:04 pm, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> > What is ICT policy? If your expertize is in government procurment, we've
> > been missing the boat over the last 2 years somehow.
>
> "very limited expertise". You miss-parsed the meaning I intended in that
> part, and if so maybe I should have phrased that differently, my point being
> that what I have had experiance in is procurement process. I did have my
> most direct experience with the federal acquisition regulations, and with the
> federal procurement process, in the role of a federal contractor with some
> large successes in selling free software to several government agencies in
> the mid 90's, and I do have a general understanding with how OSS/FS should
> relate to/can be applied in general terms to procurement law as a matter of
> principle. Perhaps experience rather than expertise was a more correct word
> to use?
>
> Also, the federal procurement process, while in theory transparent, is in fact
> not executed in a manner at all convenient for someone without a direct
> physical presence in D.C. to effectively utilize in most cases. There are
> just too many meetings with contract officers and potential hearings that are
> commonly required and which will take place there. This does not mean there
> may not be federal IT procurements which may be open to an exclusively NY
> based group or entity, just that the ones that would be are very hard to find
> and identify. Software, in particular, is difficult in this manner, since
> there is often training and support issues which may involve coverage for
> sites and locations that may potentially be anywhere in the U.S. A small but
> capitalized $20 million company with a D.C. location and a 10 year history
> can actually do this even as an agency level prime (I know), but a
> commercially organized community in NYC is a much harder question, and again
> requires a lot harder work finding an appropriate contract that may even be
> biddable. Local contracts would be much easier to find and persue.
>
> > I was hoping you still have on your agenda our retreat to Lake Placid so
> > that we can plan the World GNU/Linux exposition in New York. Also, we need
> > to set up the phone system for NYLXS.
>
> I do expect I will be in the US for awhile at the end of January, so yes, this
> is still very much on my list.
>
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> > > In addition to this, I have been asked to help draft ICT policy for a
> > > sovereign nation, which I may also visit in the next month. I would like
> > > to find someone who has direct experience with OS/FS related ICT policy
> > > drafts to speak with before I leave. My own very limited expertise in
> > > that area tends more to government procurement policies. Naturally I
> > > would like to say precisely where I am going, but given the reality that
> > > this list is monitored by a hostile corporation that engages in illegal
> > > behavior, I thought it best not to do so at this point in time. Anyone
> > > interested in discussing this may contact me directly in email;
> > > dyfet-at-gnu.org.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
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