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[Aitch]

Sorry I'm a bit late with this revelation

http://www.h-online.com/open/Community-Live-Hack-The-Government-Day--/features/112808

Being in Germany I miss some of my mail/links, due to other lifestyle issues, like walking up snow covered mountain paths to improve my health.........

.....more FOSS inroads

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education/Infrastructure

http://ostatic.com/blog/open-source-makes-new-inroads-in-asia-and-sardinia

http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/archives/page9909.cfm

http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/27.aspx

http://www.eriders.net/index.php?show=article&show_id=13&lg=en&module=articles

I'm including a link to the eRiders starter pdf, .....

http://www.eriders.net/upload/files/eRider%20Starter%20Kit.pdf

.....as I think others may not know of this service [basically linux 'geeks' volunteer to help community groups with Foss projects - maybe a Puppy opening here?]

Or Maybe useful for certain Cybercafe projects.....?

Got any more Foss inroads links?

Please post them here, plus any thoughts/ideas/comments

Aitch

[ecomoney]

Thanks for bringing this up Aitch, the U.K government has an abysmal record for I.T. projects, and it looks like this meeting is just the sort of thing it needs to show it how to get its act together. This is no doubt due to the many donations the private contractors award the political parties that award them the lucrative public-sector contracts.

The most scandalous of them is the failed National Health Service computer system, estimated to have cost 20 Billion UK pounds and still beset with problems and budget overruns. Now our news carries stories of patients literally starving in their beds are there arnt enough nurses to feed them. Its to my eternal shame that my own sports-car driving sister works for these charlatans.

The cybercafe where I worked had a visit from a senior IT consultant in the NHS, who wrote a for a NHS IT managers magazine. He wrote the article here about how open source could save the health service money. Unfortunately I hear his progressive ideas did not earn him favour with his superiors and he is now looking for a job himself.

Our system of democracy is designed around citizens electing a MP (Member of Parliament) to represent the geographical area in the houses of parliament, and bring up and vote on issues that directly effect his constituents (those who elected him/her). While this was a pretty radical and progressive idea in 1750 a.d. the advent of modern communications technology means that citizens have the means to contact our decision makers *directly*...or even to make our decisions collectively. That would be a modern democracy.

Hope you are enjoying your stay in Germany Aitch, its a VERY progressive forward-thinking country. I hope to visit there myself sometime soon and improve my "bisser deutche, nur fur urlaub!".