Here’s the questionnaire I prepared for candidates in the City Commission elections. As the results come in, I’ll post them here.

The candidates.

Florida Free Culture, a non-partisan student group at the University of Florida, is conducting a questionnaire to gauge the beliefs of City Commission candidates on free culture issues that relate to city government. FFC will announce the answers to the questionaire and post the results on our Web site. FFC will not endorse any candidate. Thank you for your participation.

To learn more about Florida Free Culture, visit our Web site at http://uf.freeculture.org.

What is your position on the following:

* The use of free / open source software on city computers? (Free, or open source, software is software that provides certain freedoms to users, e.g. the rights to modify and redistribute.)

* The use of open file formats for city documents? (Open file formats are file formats based on open, non-proprietary standards developed by multiple parties.)

* Making public documents and government information available online?

* Making Channel 12 government access television programming available online?

* Designing city Web sites to be standards-compliant? (Standards-compliant Web sites are sites that comply with the open, non-proprietary standards developed through the World Wide Web Consortium.)