[Linux-aus] Large FOSS rollouts in UK, Ireland, Italy?

Con Zymaris conz at cyber.com.au
Sat Jun 28 18:03:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:27:43PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> The pollie backing the SA Open Source bill is looking for large 
> Free/Open Source Software rollouts (ideally whole systems, usually 
> implying Linux, but OpenOffice.org or the like helps too) to visit when 
> he tours the UK, Ireland and Italy in two weeks.
> 
> Now is your chance to nominate your favourite FOSS rollout. Any ideas?

Another one possible resource collection for you (contact the group listed 
at bottom perhaps):

 http://lwn.net/Articles/38174/

And another:

From: Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Large FOSS rollouts in UK, Ireland, Italy?
To: conz at cyber.com.au (Con Zymaris)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:53:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: ukgovossig at worldshapers.org

> the following relates to the current debate Open Source bill in South
> Australia's parliament. The politician pushing the bill needs some fodder
> for his study tour. If you do have something, can you please respond to
> the group, as we would all benefit from knowing about this kind of extant
> rollout.

The most obvious UK one for study is the police computing pilot project
by Netproject (www.netproject.com).


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