Quoting David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Does slug have a view on what, if any, should be the open source input to 2020 (http://www.australia2020.gov.au/topics/infrastructure.cfm)?
lol... 2020 is a long way away..... I mean come on.... we have a brain drain going on here.... Australia is known around the world as a place to find skilled workers. In return, Australia works to lure skilled workers back to replace the ones that are leaving. If you see inside many of our Government Departments, typically the open source projects they support are foreign ones. There are exceptions, which count for about 1%. Under the Federal Government and State Government, there has been millions of dollars "promised" but then leak away. This will keep on continuing... When people see the corruption.... they tend to leave the country... By contrast, India to it's credit... with "more" corruption has a wonderful software industry... while ours languishes. Things will remain much the same till 2020, except the offshore accounts of our politicians will continue to grow. I was listening to an ex-official in Canberra just this weekend describe it as an "Open Market". Offshore companies will make the payments to your bank account anywhere you would like it in the world.... This is not new of course.... Australian Government officials have been on the foreign take for a long time.... and it is not going to change by 2020... and we wonder why our software industry is stuck in first gear.. Whilst this is true... the solution for us all is to act more globally ourselves... but when we do of course... work to grow equity... that is have more "ownership" of projects and attract foreign workers to work on projects that benefit us. Instead of simply sending young australians to work offshore on other nations projects. This is something that I really hope to see happen by 2020.... David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
