I know that there are many individuals within MITA who are keen on OSS, irrespective of official and unofficial government policies. We should see what it's about - Megabyte is sending 2 representatives (including yours truly). After all, we were the first to introduce OSS components in 3 e-Government projects we developed. We even had to sit down with MITA's lawyer to assure her that the world will not come tumbling down on account of the Apache and LGPL licenses :)
If this group will meet with any regularity it would be a good idea to prepare something for a future meeting - I'm sure Daniel can come up with a good presentation about OSS in education. Ramon Casha On 22 April 2010 21:47, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, we should wait. > > I'm very, very skeptical about anything that MITA does (in fact, anything > that any local government does, but I digress). We should first establish > whether this is a true initiative or just an EU publicity stunt. Seeing as > the EU pushes open source (refer to several open source programs such as > TOSSAD) and here in Malta we're in bed with Microsoft, this may be just MITA > saying to the EU, "Qed tara, we're doing something imbasta". > > It will be interesting to see who shows up. Remember, we're the Malta LINUX > user group - so we'd probably be considered (incorrectly so) the most > extreme open source fans there - so anything we say may be taken lightly. I > do not want this. So let's just see how it turns out. > > It seems the group is going to discuss OSS in general without delving into > particular software. Sounds a lot to me like discussing alternative energy > without mentioning any of the actual alternatives... > > Of course, this could just be my paranoia about IT within government, but > believe me I have good reason to be so. Let's just wait and see what this > REALLY is, then if it's anything good and worthwhile we'll present a case. > > K > > On 22 Apr 2010, at 20:28, daniel wrote: > > Any ideas to present a proper business case dealing with Education in > order to be considered in Open Source meeting on the 30th of April? > > Daniel > > > -- > <ubuntusignature.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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