On Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:50 pm, Ben Thorp wrote: > Perhaps we could get the key person to come to the LUG and talk about why > they want to move to Linux, what they see as the Pros, and Cons, what their > current barriers to moving are, and then see if we can offer assistance in > any way?
Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk like the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to shift off MS; not to mention encouraging similar moves in the public sector at large. Pat talks about this (with text of parliamentary questions, etc.) on his website (www.patrickharviemsp.com). That's not to say that other parties are not interested: I also saw Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP make positive noises abour open source software recently. As Willie was saying, coalitions ... Internally, the Green machines in Glasgow are all on various flavours of Debian at the moment (putting our technology where our mouth is). Can't answer for the Edinburgh mob, though. Apologies for confusion - my institutional advocacy issues are elsewhere entirely :-) Enough politicking already... Cheers, Ian -- Ian Ruffell Tel.: 0781 3101934 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
