Seems like most days it's just crickets & tumbleweeds on the PLUG email list, so I hope folks don't mind my somewhat off-topic email.
I don't watch the local nightly news on tv, but a non-tech friend who does told me that due to the archaic state of Oregon's hw & sw, we're the last state in the country to distribute government relief funds to people. I recall when OHP first opened enrollment and servers crashed and people couldn't apply. I'm hearing a similar story that people are experiencing a lot of delay and problems with filing and processing their claims for all kinds of government assistance. I'm curious if anyone is close to this or has done IT work for the state before and can speak about this. Maybe there's an Oregonian tech blogger who writes about current state of tech affairs in Oregon's gov't? Personally, I'd love it if it was possible to have FOSS systems in local & state government, even if it was more corporatized such as Red Hat or OpenSuse. I know some cities in Germany have been back & forth between Linux & M$, but I haven't seen much in the way of FOSS adoption at the local, regional, state or fed level. I've seen some local county IT jobs that require Apple experience. My friend says some gov't offices are using decades old Apple hw & sw. This might make for a really interesting PLUG talk some day if we ever get to have one again. Signed, Gov't foss tech curious in isolation. _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
