I agree that "free" can be a confusing word when it comes to speech vs. beer but I also think "open source" has been co-opted as a corporate marketing term to sell more Github private repos and Windows licenses (that now directly monetize Linux) I believe the benefits of FLOSS are self-evident in the medium to long term, but it has no sales team. Santa Fe could be easy prey for a smooth talking startup or incompetent contractor, but it is also a progressive place where things like ranked-choice voting can happen. On 18-09-24 10:58:49, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
Interesting thread. Keep us informed.
However, I'd advocate trying to use the term "open source" or "open standards" as opposed to "free" whenever possible.
On 09/24/2018 10:47 AM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:38 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
I saw my city high level contact yesterday and she said she has yet to read my email re: this. She promised that she would and though she can't directly impact the project she may know how to get into the city machinations. I'll keep all posted.
Brian
On 09/17/2018 07:39 AM, Mark Galassi wrote:
Dear nmglugers,
I came upon this article:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/outside-party-to-review-cit...
in which they discuss external review of Santa Fe's IT infrastructure.
These overhauls sometimes involve picking some company, reading their brochure, and giving them a contract.
I have seen a large institution where they replaced the UW IMAP server with a Microsoft exchange system, going from 50% of an employee to run the institution's email to 3 full-time people to run the Microsoft ... It would also be cool if someone had the ear of the city's IT planners and could propose some free software adoption, as well as a requirement free software compatibility. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org <mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
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