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OPEN SOURCE LINUX SPECIALINTEREST GROUP (OZIG)

• 1430 - 1630 Thu 29/04/2004
• Stream E-Gov Tenders
• Topic The Impact of Government Legislation
• QANTAS Theatrette
• AAPT Building
• 259 George Street
• SYDNEY 2000

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Agenda

• 1430 Welcome
• 1440 Seminar Sponsor
• 1445 Open Source in Europe
• 1500 Legislating Open Source - The ACT Agenda
• 1545 Legislation in other States - Discussion
• 1615 Questions
• 1630 Finish

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Background OIC

• Formed in 1994
• Forum to raise awareness of Electronic
  Information Technology (EIT) issues like
  E-commerce the Internet
• 1997 1st member project - Electronic
  Infrastructure
• 1999 2nd member project won 1st prize in IT
  for SME Category of Global Bangemann Challenge
  - 86 Competitors
• 2000 3rd member project - TIMS Tender Service
  released
• Main Special Interest Groups
• 2003 Open Source Linux
• 2001 Local Government
• 2000 XML E-commerce - EDIFACT Review WGp

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Government Tenders Open Source Legislation

• Over 95 electronic tenders that are published
  on the OTMG Tender Information Management Service
  TIMS are Government Agency tenders.
• The number of tenders has increased dramatically
  over the last 4 years
• TOTAL 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd
  Qtr 4th Qtr
• 2004 836 621 215
• 2003 2,189 488 577
  567 557
• 2002 1,567 357 348
  400 462
• 2001 943 206 201
  251 276
• The tenders are analysed by 9 Industry Groups
  and 11 Application Groups
• Legislating for Open Source solutions to be
  considered by Government Agencies will have a
  major impact for Australian software developers

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Trends with E-Tendering

• A review of the Electronic Tenders published for
  the same 1st Quarter over the last 4years
  provides the following Industry Category analysis
  
• 1st Qtr 2004 1st Qtr 2003 1st Qtr
  2002 1st Qtr 2001
• Federal Gov 87 14.01 59 12.09
  49 13.73 38 18.45
• State Gov 156 25.12
  113 23.16 110 30.81 83 40.29
• Local Gov 61 9.82 49 10.04
  28 7.84 29 14.08
• Land, Housing 75 12.08 68
  13.93 24 6.72 7 3.40
• Health 76 12.24 64 13.11
  68 19.05 4 1.94
• Education 71 11.43 65
  13.32 38 10.64 9 4.37
• Utilities Energy 53 8.53 36
  7.83 32 8.96 11 5.34
• Commercial 8 1.29 5
  1.02 2 0.56 15 7.28
• Associations 34 5.48
  29 5.94 6 1.68 10
  4.85
• TOTAL 621 488 357 206

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OZIG Co-ordinating issues

• A Identifying tenders that may be suitable as
  Open Source applications
• B Co-ordinating Tender response teams that can
  provide complete Open Source solutions for tender
  requirements
• C Liasing with State Governments to ensure
  Legislation is equitable for all parties
  involved - Open Source software developer
  lobbyist ?
• D Raising awareness of developments with Open
  Source eg legislation