Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Saenz
Also the problem is that Open source needs to jump through the same hoops proprietary software. That is a majority of the time they would need to be DSD approved and each open source project would need to pay a minimum of $50k to get DSD to qualify it. Without DSD approval open source will not

Re: [SLUG] REMINDER: SLUG Monthly Meeting: 4th February 2011 - Lightning Talks!

2011-02-06 Thread Tim Ansell
They are held at the Google offices opposite Star City casino in the Accenture building. The address is level 5, 48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont. Tim On Feb 4, 2011 10:10 AM, Kevin Waterson ke...@phpro.org wrote: Where are SLUG meetings held these days? K On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:20 +1100, Tim Ansell

Re: [SLUG] REMINDER: SLUG Monthly Meeting: 4th February 2011 - Lightning Talks!

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Waterson
Where are SLUG meetings held these days? K On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:20 +1100, Tim Ansell wrote: Just a reminder that SLUG is going ahead this Friday. There where a lot of awesome stuff at Linux.conf.au, if you went please give a lightning talk! Tim On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Tim

Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-06 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Hi All, Following up on the postings here and Friday night's brief discussion at SLUG, I have now created a page on the SLUG wiki under advocacy. See http://wiki.slug.org.au/advocacy Marghanita Kevin Saenz wrote: Also the problem is that Open source needs to jump through the same hoops