Hi Eric,
Interesting post - the GOC does have this great platform for
collaborating and spreading awareness (probably even parties about the
CIA and Phoenix Pay and such) called "GC Collab":
https://gccollab.ca/newsfeed/
Cheers,
Katie
On 2025-02-04 09:29, Eric Marceau via linux wrote:
As for Open-Source Software, the steady advance in adoption of those,
most notably by France and Germany, among others among the EU, should
be the clearest message that Canada needs to "join the party"!
*
https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files/OSOR_Status%20of%20OSS%20Policies%20in%20Europe_2020_0.pdf
(country-specific details)
*
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Research/WorldofOS_EUSpotlight_WebVersion_090423.pdf?hsLang=en
(more recent, but more generic)
Along those lines, I am not in a position to help there, but has
anyone considered posting on internal GOC cork-boards some 11x17
posters about informal "of-site" technology awareness "parties" that
could gradually increase the awareness levels of Government employees
about such technologies and having them promote from within the
benefits of such? I don't know if that would require prior knowledge
of GOC processes and tools in order to customize the message in the
way of suites of tools being presented in those "off-site" parties,
along with usage of those tools which would be representative of those
internal processes.
Again, considering that paranoia is not a bad thing, in-context, given
recent events, _and the sure awareness by the CIA of US internal
political trends,_ I'm beginning to think that the failed Phoenix
payroll system was a CIA plot to disrupt the effectiveness of the
Canadian Government and weaken the loyalty of Canadian Government
employees, in order to increase their sensitivity to being subverted
into becoming traitors on the U.S. payroll as "payback" for all the
pain and anguish, not to mention the drain on financial and
intellectual resources which could have been better spent elsewhere!
Assuming that the CIA is working the long game that Canadians seem too
"innocent" to be willing to consider.
Eric
On 2025-02-04 06:24, Michael P. Soulier via linux wrote:
On 03/02/25 Ron / BCLUG via linux said:
Yes, if for no other reasons than to ensure long-term (century
long) access
to files. MS doesn't have a great history of maintaining stable
document
formats.
All the more reason to keep my data in plain text files.
However, if the EU, Canada, and whomever else is wary of the US
all
cooperated on funding and developing LibreOffice, it could really
help
achieve the goal... eventually.
Once progress made, the various governments could mandate ODT /
ODS
internally and eventually for all interactions.
Yeah, while I'm happy to use document markup that makes most people
cry, your
typical computer user is not.
Mike
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