| Vantrax | anyone heard about the Australian NSW government k12 tender? | 03:13 |
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| Vantrax | spec basically means every kid in the NSW system will have a linux netbook. | 03:14 |
| sladen | [[citation needed]] | 03:22 |
| Vantrax | http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/NSW-issues-200m-PC-wireless-tender/0,130061702,339293637,00.htm https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/commerce/?event=public.rft.showClosed&RFTUUID=F6004F9F-90B3-D71E-C95E6CE7623629C3 | 03:24 |
| Vantrax | max cost $500AUD, considering the dell mini 9 is $550 at education pricing it basically means no way to bundle MS into the price. Have to go linux | 03:26 |
| sladen | unless ...Microsoft *pay* AU$50 times $number_ordered for each copy of MS Office | 03:28 |
| Vantrax | well MS windows and MS office both would have to be free effectively... | 03:28 |
| Vantrax | the NSW government has been piloting Linux based school labs here and there for a while | 03:29 |
| sladen | yes/no, it's worth enough to Microsoft that they would not only make any necessary "free" but they would actually pay the contracter/government to install Microsoft stuff so that the contract didn't go elsewhere | 03:30 |
| sladen | what sadly happens all too frequently is that a government department says "we're going Linux" and Bill Gates gets in his jet and has a "meeting" the next day | 03:31 |
| sladen | with somebody high-up (like a prime-minister) | 03:31 |
| Vantrax | yeah, maybe it will be different with a new prime ministeer | 03:33 |
| Vantrax | where you from sladen | 03:42 |
| sladen | I'm in the United Kindom at the momnet | 03:43 |
| sladen | Kingdom; moment | 03:44 |
| Rinchen | boredandblogging, did you see the follow-up responses about the fridge gcal? | 15:43 |
| cody-somerville | The ubuntu.com domain sounds interesting | 15:49 |
| boredandblogging | Rinchen: yes | 16:06 |
| boredandblogging | Rinchen: the free tools argument has been fair, but the drupal calendars have been a royal pain | 16:12 |
| james_w | I think you should document what the current issues are, so that you can show people the reasons for moving to something non-free | 16:13 |
| james_w | and when problems are hit with using google calendar there aren't questions about what moving to google improved | 16:13 |
| boredandblogging | right | 16:13 |
| Rinchen | yeah, I would love to use the event repeat module but it has so many problems it would be a disservice to the community | 16:22 |
| james_w | Rinchen: could you expand on the problems? | 16:23 |
| boredandblogging | i was wondering if its useful for LoCos to add their irc meetings to the calendar, maybe a separate calendar? | 16:23 |
| Rinchen | james_w, in simplest terms: a) it has security holes that Kees could drive a bus through, b) it's not available for Drup 6 because it's being rewritten to address those fundamental architectural holes | 16:24 |
| james_w | Rinchen: ah, I didn't realise Kees had reviewed it | 16:25 |
| james_w | it was unnamed "security problems" before | 16:25 |
| Rinchen | james_w, I don't think it did. It was a metaphor you'd get though :-) | 16:26 |
| james_w | ah | 16:26 |
| Rinchen | s/it/he | 16:26 |
| james_w | well, one of the maintainers is on the drupal security team, so it probably doesn't have gaping holes | 16:26 |
| Rinchen | newz knows the story best but I've gotten the same story from him and elmo | 16:26 |
| james_w | and currently, only trusted people are able to create events aren't they? | 16:26 |
| Rinchen | if it were installed, yes that is correct | 16:28 |
| Rinchen | I wasn't able to get IS to install it though :-( | 16:28 |
| james_w | it seems a bit silly to me to migrate away from free tools when there are free tools we could either use or fix | 16:29 |
| james_w | and I was mistaken about the maintainer of the module being on the security team, sorry | 16:30 |
| cody-somerville | james_w, I dunno if you noticed but Mark asked if maybe it would be a good idea to get google domain applications thingie for ubuntu.com | 16:34 |
| Rinchen | re: silly. My Drupal experts tell me that event repeat should rock for 6 when it's out but it won't be for a some time yet. It's been difficult to get attention to the Fridge unless it's security related so the going has been slow. :-( | 16:36 |
| james_w | yeah, I can understand that | 16:36 |
| james_w | I'm told that the whole calendar system has been overhauled in 6 and is much better | 16:36 |
| james_w | cody-somerville: I did | 16:36 |
| boredandblogging | Rinchen: newz had some ideas for doing the calendar stuff after he got from his conferene | 16:44 |
| Rinchen | yeah, I'm waiting to hear back from newz on those | 16:44 |
| Rinchen | I haven't poked him about it though | 16:44 |
| boredandblogging | but I think it would still be the same issue...it would take too long to roll them out | 16:44 |
| Tumie | Can we change the world? Yes we can! Can we fix it? Yes we can! BOB THE BUILDER :D :D :D | 19:15 |
| cody-somerville | yes yes | 19:27 |
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