[aaloa supporters] Thoughts related to the recent comments on the Lecce Declaration

[Mohammad-Reza Tazari]

Hi Jesus,

the reason is that the LD is not an AALOA document. AALOA was only 
mandated to organize the work on the LD in an open way without any 
"back-stage" decision making. Apparently, the experience of the 
participants of AMB'11 was that at least this level of trusting the 
AALOA governing board is possible, which is already something. Me 
personally am very happy with that. Having this in mind, we tried not to 
discuss the "how"s too much in order to have a chance to converge. De 
facto, most of the projects supporting the LD are not linked with AALOA 
(even some of the people having joined the group on aalforum.eu do not 
have any link to AALOA). What does AALOA gain? At least, it becomes more 
known. Although one result of this could be that new people might decide 
to join, for me personally, however, it is more important that at this 
stage, we attract a certain level of trust that we really stand for 
openness,  "co-opetiton" (see the manifesto), and convergence even if 
one might not share some of our concrete ideas.

Kind regards,

-- Saied

jesus.bermejo at telvent.com wrote on 16-Sep-11 00:32:
>
> something that surprises me me when reading this declaration 
> (...particulary if it is comming form AALOA) is that open source is 
> not mentioned at all.
> We have been involved in others policy documents such as the OECD 
> Study on Software Innovation, as technical advisors to the economist 
> team (together with industrial organisations with different 
> strategies) 
> http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,3746,en_2649_34223_39109439_1_1_1_1,00.html#background 
> and open source is recognised as other strategies,
> Is there any reason for this?