On 6/18/06, Daniel Escasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
just my two cents worth
Sabi ni Jan noong Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 8:18 AM:
> i hope there is a very vocal advocacy group to push the use of open source
> in government, maybe CICT is not doing its job well enough. in case of our
> department we're the only bureau that uses open source at least on our
> servers.
You may be thinking that's it's easier than it really is. Having had
the chance to talk with one of the commissioners, I'd cut them some
slack. For one thing, there are things beyond their control since
they're part of a large government machinery. I don't even know if
there's a CICT budget, or if the commission's using the individual
budgets of the component agencies -- the National Computer Center, the
Telecommunications Office (TelOf), and one or two other agencies.
Furthermore, a government-wide FLOSS deployment would take more
manpower than the CICT has. It's not just the physical distribution of
the software (that's trivial), there's also the necessary training and
initial hand-holding. Remember Commissioner Emmanuel "Boying"
Lallana's message to PLUG at the inauguration of officers? He hinted
-- or maybe even outright said -- that government, and the CICT in
particular, needs help from the private sector for FLOSS deployment. I
took that as an informal request to PLUG.
i wonder what happened to the cict's project of promoting the use of open source to public high schools, myself together with some volunteers conducted the training for trainors (linux + openoffice) who will in turn be teaching what they've learned. i wonder what happened to that noble project, i guess it did not push thru or for whatever reason there maybe, and all boils down to one, ---> "will" as the saying goes if there's a will there's a way, an the government has none of it.
just my two cents worth
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