Re: Open2020 and Strawpoll on Roles in the Governance of ICT was Re: [SLUG] Looking for speakers
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Sridhar and SLUGers, Video of the Open 2020 talks is now available at http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=9 Sitting around watching Videos at a SLUG meeting might not be what you are after... and the files are pretty big MPEG4 but the content might be of interest. The submission to the main 2020 conference is now available here http://tomw.net.au/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=199 Lastly, I am interested in thoughts (to the list or offlist) of the specific role/contribution/responsibilities of various disciplines/professions in the governance of ICT. One of the difficulties with the Governance of ICT is to engage the right skills and knowledge, at the right time. Well forgive my cynicism but having good connections with people in the Australian Government I can decode some of the rhetoric that they use. Once you understand it, you might appreciate how precarious working in open source can be if you are an Australian citizen. First secret-word to debunk is Open-Market. This is a code-word term with a special meaning. Much like the term Free Trade Agreement it doesn't actually specify an open market, but a highly controlled and regulated one. Where preferential treatment is dished out no less or no more than in a protected market. Japan, Korea, UK, US are all examples of protected markets. Open-Market as used by the Australian government, tends to actually mean discrimination against local companies. ie favouring foreign firms. If you look at it this way, the Australian Government does whatever it can do to ensure that foreign companies have the best access to our markets. That is an Open Market Governance is about keeping policies in Australia which flush out the clever people into the higher economies. Let's just say across the pacific and back to Europe. Where proper commercialisation is better set to take place. Let's not read this and be too pessimistic.. maybe Kevin Rudd with his chinese perspective can help us triangulate our views. Funny how some overseas analysts are afraid of having a non-puppet character running the boat here.. But the indoctrination of Governance runs right through our buruaucracy and always runs back to the queen character. That is the way it was set up a hundred years ago and we are kidding ourselves if we think the system was changed somewhere along the line. It never was. Well as they say in China Any great journey must begin with the first step.. It is going to take a long time to unwind the governance system and string pulling system. Any young people in Australia should get on a plane and see how technology (OpenSource) is being managed in Schenzhen (China), HongKong, Korea, Japan and Germany. It is fascinating. As Australians, need to play a more active part in this world... maybe that is what this 2020 thing is all about... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Open2020 and Strawpoll on Roles in the Governance of ICT was Re: [SLUG] Looking for speakers
Hi Sridhar and SLUGers, Video of the Open 2020 talks is now available at http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=9 Sitting around watching Videos at a SLUG meeting might not be what you are after... and the files are pretty big MPEG4 but the content might be of interest. The submission to the main 2020 conference is now available here http://tomw.net.au/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=199 Lastly, I am interested in thoughts (to the list or offlist) of the specific role/contribution/responsibilities of various disciplines/professions in the governance of ICT. One of the difficulties with the Governance of ICT is to engage the right skills and knowledge, at the right time. What has also emerged, is that the risk management approach is flawed in that it does not allow for uncertainty (1) and ignorance (2). The Australian Standard(3), identifies a wide range of advisors :- *Senior Managers, *Members of Groups mnitoring the resources within the organization *External business or technical specialists, such as legal or accounting specialist, retail assocations, or professinal bodies. *Vendors of hardware, software, communications and other ICT products. *Internal and external service providers (including consultants) *ICT Auditors I will provide a summary of the results on the Ramin Communications Website and be using them in my paper to ET GOVICT2008 (4) Marghanita 1)Implementing a plan to Counter Project Uncertainty Rice Oconnor Pierantozzi MIT Sloane Management Review Winter 2008 (2)http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pdf/pfi/winter2001/p152.pdf (3)http://www.ramin.com.au/itgovernance/as8015.html (4)A Conference on the Ethical Governance of ICT and the Role of Professional Bodies, 1 - 2 May 2008 http://www.cappe.edu.au/upcoming-events.htm#ETGOVICT2008 Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hello SLUGgers! We are in need of speaking talent for our SLUG meetings. Our next meeting is on May 2 (announcement below), but we don't yet have anyone to present. If you have something that you'd like to talk about, let us know. This goes for any meeting, not just for the next one. You can generally assume that our meetings are on the last Friday of each month (barring December). For more information on speaking at SLUG, please see these resources: * http://www.slug.org.au/cfp.html * http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/guide.html Thanks! Sridhar -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 2 May Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:30 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our last announcement contained an error in the subject line. Please accept our apologies. == April SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://www.slug.org.au/node/97 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 2 May, 2008 NOTE: Due to a clash with ANZAC Day, the April SLUG meeting has been deferred by one week to 2 May. The official May meeting will not be affected. We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = General Talk: TBA In-Depth Talk: TBA We will release another announcement after we confirm our speakers. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation of the segments. * 18:15 : Open Doors * 18:30 : Announcements, News, Introductions * 18:45 : General Talk (see above) * 19:30 : Intermission * 19:45 : Split into two groups for * In-depth Talk (see above) * SLUGlets: Linux QA and other miscellany * 20:30 : Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet[3], but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat [3] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au/specials.html --- -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Looking for speakers
Hello SLUGgers! We are in need of speaking talent for our SLUG meetings. Our next meeting is on May 2 (announcement below), but we don't yet have anyone to present. If you have something that you'd like to talk about, let us know. This goes for any meeting, not just for the next one. You can generally assume that our meetings are on the last Friday of each month (barring December). For more information on speaking at SLUG, please see these resources: * http://www.slug.org.au/cfp.html * http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/guide.html Thanks! Sridhar -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 2 May Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:30 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our last announcement contained an error in the subject line. Please accept our apologies. == April SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://www.slug.org.au/node/97 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 2 May, 2008 NOTE: Due to a clash with ANZAC Day, the April SLUG meeting has been deferred by one week to 2 May. The official May meeting will not be affected. We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = General Talk: TBA In-Depth Talk: TBA We will release another announcement after we confirm our speakers. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation of the segments. * 18:15 : Open Doors * 18:30 : Announcements, News, Introductions * 18:45 : General Talk (see above) * 19:30 : Intermission * 19:45 : Split into two groups for * In-depth Talk (see above) * SLUGlets: Linux QA and other miscellany * 20:30 : Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet[3], but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat [3] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au/specials.html --- -- Sridhar Dhanapalan President Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Looking for speakers
Hi all, I'm looking for speakers for the ACS FOSS SIG. If you can give a talk on a FOSS related subject, and you are free one last Thursday in the month ... of if you know of someone else who could give such a talk, please let me know. This is a chance to get a slightly different slice of the Australian IT industry excited about what's happening in the FOSS world. Many thanks, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
