Florence Devouard wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Interesting. Reminds me of when we originally moved to "monobook". There was a real but brief episode where somebody using the nick "bgates" came into the channel #wikipedia on Internet Relay Chat, and very swiftly exited, after getting an answer that appeared to all present to be a sincerely technical one...
I confess I have ever since wondered was that the "real" "bgates" or just somebody with a sense of humour, who nevertheless was discomfited by our move to monobook.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Eh :-)
Well, in this case, the guy was real :-) I met him at http://assisesdunumerique.fr/actualites/
Nice opportunity by the way, to mention that last week, I met with various important people (at French scale), in the name of our prime minister (Fillon), the minister of education and research (Pecresse) and the secretary in charge of Innovation, digital economy and etc ... (Eric Besson).
I had the very "blushing-experience" of being both cited by Fillon (once) and Besson (twice) in a public event. I actually met Besson 3 times in two days, including a 7 members-2 hours breakfast at the minister, around digital economy considerations.
One of the top (hot) topic is that Besson has been asked by the prime minister to come with a series of propositions by end of july, regarding digital economy in France. I must point out that the very-short delay for this plan is
- because our government was restructed recently (and for the first
time, digital economy was given to a specific minister, rather than being nicely divided between minister of culture, of education, of industry etc..., and 2) because France will become president of Europe this summer, so obviously want to be a leading force of proposition in various areas, including internet considerations.
Anyway, the Assises du Numerique are usually an opportunity for *important* people (that is... politicians, industrial leaders, public services) to discuss of the future of our country and come up with propositions. Access is restricted.
This year, they decided to have unrestricted access to the Assises, the expand them to a collection of local Assises all accross the country, to let completely open the number of propositions which can be done, AND to open a wiki to either comment or tweak the current propositions, or to make NEW propositions. Is not that amazing ?
THe wiki was opened yesterday: http://wiki.assisesdunumerique.fr/xwiki/bin/view/Assises/
Poeple must log in to access the wiki, but creation of account is totally opened. I tested it yesterday during the Assises. License is cc-by 1.0.
I hope the french editors will take direct action and be a force of proposition. Otherwise, it would really mean that we should not complain in the future if the laws and activity of the government does not please us. We should only complain if they refuse our propositions ;-)
More to come later on the topic. Just wanted to mention it was the first time that my government was actually OPENING a place for us to work on action points together.
THIS is also thanks to us guys...
Ant
Very cool indeed. Just to continue on the theme of namedropping...
Bessons opposite number in Finnish government ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyrki_J._J._Kasvi ) is a very old friend of mine - when I say old, I mean "when people used to wear bell-bottoms" old.
Though Kasvi isn't currently so well known for his technology & future related endevours, but as one of the prime movers in the scandal that is currently shaking the whole Finnish political system to its core, in regard to transparency of political funding.
Though it is cool to add that my old friend has been very active in updating all the articles on Finnish Parliamentarians on The wikipedia.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen