Linux gaining acceptance in Canberra

[Michael Still]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, James McNeill wrote:

> What we really need is to form a new group to *coherently* advocate
> open-source software in government/education  etc. The government is
> used to having corporations walk up to them with large scale proposals
> and high-flying contracts. Nobody has the funding to push open-source,
> and all the gov't sees is a bunch of hobbyists playing with code.

No we don't. It exists. It's called AUUG (http://www.auug.org.au). I am
aware of at least one meeting between members of the AUUG national
executive and NOIE to brief them on Linux and Open Source.

We need to support AUUG more though.

Cheers,
Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com)     UTC +10 hours