ISTF Public Software Working Group (PubSoft)

From early 1999 until late in 2001 the Internet Societal Task Force was a project examining societal issues within the Internet Society. ISTF was dissolved in late 2001 and its place has been taken by the Internet Societal Discussion Forum (ISDF), again within ISOC. ISDF is a mailing list for the discussion of societal issues and the effects of networking technology.

PubSoft was a working group within ISTF, focusing on issues of free software, Internet access and economic development. Some characteristics:

• very active and informative mailing list. The only consistently active workgroup list besides the main ISTF list
• internal organization based on the "Apache" model: decision making through voting by those committed to the project. New people accepted through nomination
• activism
  • attempt to influence ISOC policy on free and open source software
  • such as our efforts ot organize a pan-African open source movement with the Open Source Africa Project.

Some of the members were:

Bud P. Bruegger
   Sistema: Information Systems and Environmental Modelling

Robert J. Chassell
   The GNU Project
   Rattlesnake Enterprises

Carlo Daffara
   European Working Group On Libre Software
   Conecta Telematica

Scott Johnson
   Worldwide Films

                                  
S. (Sam) Kritikos
   Globewide Network Academy
   MetaCommunity Project

Bernard Lang
   INRIA
   AFUL - Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres
   The EuroLinux Alliance

Andrew Mancey
   SDNP Guyana
   Disability resources links

Gary Lawrence Murphy
   The Linux Kernel Book
   Teledynamics Communications Inc

Wawa A. Ngenge
   SDNP Cameroon
   AC3L - Association camerounaise Linux et Logiciel Libre

Stefan Probst
   Opticom Technologies Ltd.

Michael Totschnig
   Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Raul Zambrano
   United Nations Development Programme

      

Also the following people:

Philippe Aigrain
   Technologies and Engineering for Software, Systems and Services(TESSS)


Joly
   Streamola


Wladyslaw Majewski
   Map of Poland
   ISOC-Poland

Chris Zielinski
   Health Information for Development (HID)
   International Federation for Information and Documentation        

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