{"id":1852,"date":"2013-05-17T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2013-05-17T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:52:55","slug":"open-source-strengthens-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Open source &#8220;strengthens democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1282\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/02\/Ivo_Josipovic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/02\/Ivo_Josipovic.jpg\" alt=\"image of Ivo Josipovi\u0107\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1282\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Croatian President Ivo Josipovi\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>Open source strengthens democracy, according to Croatian President Ivo Josipovi\u0107, <a href=\"http:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/croatias-president-praises-creative-spirit-open-source-community\">as reported on Joinup<\/a>, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news website.<\/p>\n<p>Josipovi\u0107 appreciates the open source community&#8217;s creative and innovative spirit and is reported as saying: &#8220;What you are doing is something good, creative and innovative&#8221;, while opening the <a href=\"http:\/\/2013.dorscluc.org\/hr\/\">Croatian Linux Users&#8217; Convention 2013<\/a> in Zagreb on Wednesday 15th May. As regards democracy, the President remarked: &#8220;Most importantly, open source helps to strengthen democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Josipovi\u0107 also expressed his &#8220;complete support&#8221; for the government plans to implement open source and open standards (<em>what about open data? A stool needs three legs, not two! Ed.<\/em>) in the Croatian public sector&#8217;s IT, according to the organisers of the Croatian Linux Users&#8217; Convention.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that Mr Josipovi\u0107 has shown his support for open source and open standards (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1281\" title=\"Croatia: President supports open source\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source strengthens democracy, according to Croatian President Ivo Josipovi\u0107, as reported on Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news website. Josipovi\u0107 appreciates the open source community&#8217;s creative and innovative spirit and is reported as saying: &#8220;What you are doing is something good, creative and innovative&#8221;, while opening the Croatian Linux Users&#8217; Convention 2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,15,9],"tags":[19,29,12,11,20],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-politics","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-data","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}