[LA-Policies] Draft Indigenous Acknowledgement policy

[David Lloyd]

Hi There,

s/Andrew/Matthew/g :)

> I quite like Andrew's idea, too, but see a way of getting it happening 
> in a
> different way. For this it would be best to operate in coordination with
> Activ8Me, who handle all the government work in regard to Aboriginal
> satellite connectivity. In getting old, recycled hardware, preinstalled, 
> and
> installed into the communities. We would then be looking at a hurdle,
> however, in regard to maintenance/updating, unless we could organise
> that through Activ8Me also. Perhaps they have somebody already on
> staff au fait with Linux?

It would be good if we had enough funds - or someone had enough expertise 
and time - to help train the trainers for such an effort as well.

I'm relatively certain that LinuxSA would come on board for both of these 
ideas and I'm within walking distance of ITShare SA's local office and the 
current web-site for computer bank in Victoria says they've run out of 
space (which means a reasonable offer to move some of the computers to 
communities that may put them to use might very well be appreciated).

That said, we've suddenly moved from an acknowledgement policy into 
actually doing something; I suppose that's not a particularly bad side 
step.

Let's ponder what we could achieve - I suspect were the organisers of a 
Linux.Conf.Au to ask delegates to forego one coffee or (le gasp) one beer 
or glass of wine a day, we might be able to come up with enough funds to 
do something useful. I know, it's the practical expertise, time and so 
forth that is probably more important here but, alas, even with 
volunteered time and expertise, the need for colourful pieces of plastic 
will eventually be required.

DSL