Tony Yarusso's Blog

Dear lazywebs,

So I noticed this morning both on my laptop at home and in the logs on servers at work that there had been a BIND update that came down the pipe, and being a core system service, was a bit curious what the deal was, but didn't look into it right away. Now, later in the day I'm going through the tech / security news of the day, and found this article providing a bit of background, and was able to confirm that it was related via USN 622-1.

So like we did for 7.10, with the 8.04 release of Ubuntu the Minnesota (USA) LoCo gathered contact information for various local media outlets, and I sent them all a note about the release, Ubuntu itself, and our release party. As a result, I actually got a response, from Jon Gordon of National Public Radio (NPR).

So I went to my Senate District's convention on Saturday, and while I was there had a chance to talk to a couple of politicians about OpenDocument in governement and open source in government and schools. While the responses were fairly predictable given the environment, I thought I'd share some of my observations.

So I attended my party's local caucus for the first time tonight, and in addition to concluding that our process is highly wacky and inefficient (and not making nearly enough use of electronic resources). However, in addition to that made use of the form provided on the back of our agendas for the purpose of submitting resolutions. I drafted one supporting the mandation of open standards for the file formats of government documents, such as is already law in Massachussetts, which was passed by my precinct (Minnesota's SD54P3).