Editing ReactOS (section)

===Lobbying for support in Russia===
Between 2007 and 2015, Russian ReactOS contributors representing the ReactOS Foundation made efforts at lobbying the Russian federal government. {{as of|2019|4}}, these efforts have not yielded government support for ReactOS, and the Russia-based ReactOS Foundation has been dissolved since November 2015.<ref name="liquidated" />
[[File:Alksnis-Bragin.jpg|thumb|Former ReactOS project coordinator Aleksey Bragin (left) showing ReactOS to [[Viktor Alksnis]]]]
* In 2007, then [[State Duma]] member and chairman of Russian Center of Free Technologies, [[Viktor Alksnis]] met with project coordinator Aleksey Bragin, who gave a presentation and demonstration of the project, showing ReactOS running with [[Total Commander]] and [[Firefox|Mozilla Firefox]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://v-alksnis2.livejournal.com/32900.html |title=Виктор Имантович Алкснис – Знакомство с проектом ReactOS |language=ru |first=Viktor |last=Alksnis |date=2007-06-06 |access-date=2009-12-11}}</ref> 
* In 2011, a demonstration was given to then president [[Dmitry Medvedev]] during a visit to a high school in Verhnerusskoe, [[Stavropol]], attended by one of the development team members.<ref name="medvedev">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14899507 |title=Russian President Medvedev asked to fund Windows clone |agency=[[BBC News]] |date=2011-09-13 |access-date=2011-09-15}}</ref>
* On 31 July 2012, [[Vladimir Putin]] was also given a demonstration during his visit as [[President of Russia]] to [[Seliger (forum)|Seliger Youth Forum]], attended by Marat Karatov, one of the development team members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reactos.org/reactos-presented-president-putin |title=ReactOS Presented to President Putin |author=((Z98)) |work=ReactOS News |date=2012-08-05 |access-date=2013-06-23}}</ref>
* On 1 April 2015, Bragin attended an expert meeting of the [[Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Russia)|Russian Ministry of Communications]] on reducing Russia's dependency from proprietary software imports. Its minutes name the "creation of an open source operating system based on ReactOS for PCs, laptops and other mobile devices", as well as the "creation of an open source operating system for servers based on ReactOS",<ref>[http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/documents/4662/ Minutes of the expert evaluation of projects on import substitution infrastructure software according to paragraph 4-8 of import substitution plan software, approved by order of the Ministry of Communications of Russia from 1 April 2015 №96 "On approval of import software"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718033724/http://www.minsvyaz.ru/ru/documents/4662/ |date=18 July 2015 }} [[Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Russia)|Russian Ministry of Communications]] ''"Direction "client operating system / Server Operating Systems" first place&nbsp;— the project "Corporate platform on the basis of domestic operating systems" [...] second place&nbsp;— the project "Creation of the operating system open source based on ReactOS for PCs, laptops and other mobile devices," "Creating the operating system open source-based server ReactOS" (Fund "Reaktos" MSTU. AN Bauman, LLC "Paral Plelz Research" and others.)."'' (2 June 2015, [https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fminsvyaz.ru%2Fru%2Fdocuments%2F4662%2F&edit-text= translated])</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reactos.org/project-news/reactos-second-os-russian-governments-software-freedom-effort/|title=ReactOS as a second OS in Russian government's software freedom effort {{!}} ReactOS Project|website=www.reactos.org|access-date=2019-04-06}}</ref><ref name="favourit">[https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Russland-erklaert-ReactOS-zu-favorisierter-Windows-Alternative-2722495.html Russland-erklaert-ReactOS-zu-favorisierter-Windows-Alternative] on [[Heinz Heise|heise online]] by Louis-F. Stahl (23 June 2015, in German)</ref><ref>[https://derstandard.at/2000017947663/Russland-macht-ReactOS-zur-bevorzugten-Windows-Alternative Russland macht ReactOS zu bevorzugter Windows-Alternative] on [[Der Standard]] (24 June 2015, in German)</ref> placing it second among three named proposals.