El 23/08/2013 08:31, "Jon Spriggs" <[email protected]> escribió: > > Most, (if not all) councils outsource their IT to a 3rd party. This > outsourcing will be very fluffy around what technologies they expect > to be provided, but nearly all will state some kind of Technology > Refresh after X years. > > The Service Integrator (SI) I work for wouldn't even consider making > Linux part of the front-end refresh, so this will never be offered to > the customer. > > So, rather than lobbying your MP, local Council or Ward officials > (many of whom wouldn't know an OS if it bit them on the nose), maybe > the people to speak to are the SI's or Outsourced Service Delivery > managers? Or, better yet, the Non-Elected-Official who liaises between > the council and the SI? They will "own the relationship", and will be > in more of a position to suggest that "perhaps next time round you > could put together a cost model for rolling out a Gnome/Unity/KDE > desktop, as well as pricing for Windows, just to see what the > cost/value differences are?" Which, incidentally, might be able to be > FOI'd - just saying... >
I got in contact with the councillor that manages the libraries and asked him who manages the IT for libraries and his answer is "good question, i will find out". Any other idea on how to find out? I asked at the local library and twitter account for all libraries and their info was out of date.
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