Re: [Linux-aus] FFP Release

Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> · Fri Dec 8 00:48:04 2006

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, David Lloyd wrote:
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:55:58 +1030
From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au>
To: Janet Hawtin <lucychili@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>,
    Linux Australia <linux-aus@linux.org.au>,
    OSIA DISCUSSION LIST <osia-discuss@lists.osia.net.au>
Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] FFP Release

Janet,
The Hon Dennis Hood will also call for a computer demonstration lab to
be set up in S.A., so that schools, libraries, and other institutions
can decide whether 'open source' is for them.

It just dawned on me that I've been reading in the papers that the state has 
or is closing down a technology demonstration school which (if my leaky 
memory serves me right) was located somewhere near Thebarton.
I refer to:
* http://www.tsof.edu.au/aboutus/
It might be worth the Honourable Member talking to someone from within PLUG 
to learn about the professional center that used to exist in Western 
Australia.
DSL

To which are you referring - the SEAWA facility, or the OpenSourceWA 
facility?
Both were facilities for computing professionals, that were shut down by 
cessation of funding by the WA state government.
The first was the Software Engineering Asscociation of WA, and both were 
used by computing professionals, and PLUG and other open source people 
used both facilities. One of the interesting combinations of attendees, 
at the SEAWA was the debate involving .NET and other open source 
equivalents, such as mono, etc, a few years ago.
Unfortunately, it appears to be the policy of the WA state government, 
to stifle the IT industry in WA.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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