[LA-Policies] Draft Indigenous Acknowledgement policy

[David]

On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 13:23 +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> s/Andrew/Matthew/g :)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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.

O/K/. I've been away for a week, so catching up.

All the communities have their own administration staff on-site,
already conducting Word courses and the ilk for the local people, so
handling basic familiarisation with Libreoffice Writer/Calc or
Gnumeric/Abiword would be handled locally, without training, once the
local staff had a chance to get to grips with it. Le's face it, the
online help spectrum is a lot more comprehensive than the Microsoft
environment, and if an intranet server was set up to serve between the
communities, it would take them no time at all. Trust me, aboriginal
people think differently, and community interaction is something they
specialise in.

That way, all you're really looking at is updating/upgrading, which the
periodic visits from Activ8Me staff could handle.
Of course you'd need a solid, stable system like Debian to handle this
contract ...
> 
> 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).

I get on well with the people from Buy-IT Back up here in Queensland,
also, and it's definitely a project they could get on board with.

> 
> 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.

Definitely some money would be required, but not so much as might be
feared, and with the right approach, possibly even a job for somebody.
That's if the right approach was taken, I'm sure funds could be
allocated.
-- 
Kind Regards,

David Crosswell.
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