Re: A Breath of Fresh Air

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Jordan [mailto:timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us]
>Sent: Monday, June 7, 2004 04:57 PM
>To: 'Greg Madden'
>Cc: aklug@lib.uaa.alaska.edu
>Subject: Re: A Breath of Fresh Air
>
>On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 08:53, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 23:38, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>> > Red this note.
>> > http://www.webmink.net/2004/06/fisl-government-that-gets-it.htm
>> >
>> > This is something that I wish was the thrill here in the U.S.
>> >
>> > Dee
>> >
>>
>> Porto Alegre, Brazil, DebConf 4 - The 5th annual Debian Conference was
>> held there May 26-June 2nd. The World Social Forum held there in 2003.
>>
>> To bad Gov Murkowski doesn't push the FOSS idea as a new industry for
>> Alaska. Aklug can do only so much :)
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>The opinion expressed below is mine and not representative of the state
>of Alaska in any way. Oh yeah, I'm also on a 15 min. break.
>
>The state is working toward moving IT support into an enterprise
>environment. The idea is that this is going to save the state money.
>Currently each departments runs thier own IT section. As part of this
>reform functioning work groups have evolved to evaluate and recommend
>options to the governing counsel of ETS, appropriately titled the
>Enterprise Technology Management group (ETM). As far as I know ETM is
>made up of a handful of current IT department managers. ETM takes
>recommendations from the FWG and then sets a "standard" for the state.
>Topics include File & Print serving, desktop functionality, backups,
>security, etc... There is more that goes on in this process but this is
>the main outline.
>
>I believe there is a real opportunity to challenge the ETM and
>functioning work groups to seriously look at Open Source. I am by no
>means a "player" in the future of the states technology. Regardless, I
>still take the time to let my boss know what is available in the open
>source arena. I have also emailed a copy of the migration guide that
>the government of Munich used in evaluating open source to a member of
>the ETM. He replied two days later encouraging other members of the ETM
>to review the section on "financial analysis".
>
>We could all do something. I would bet my last dollar that we have the
>talent within the state to design, deploy, and maintained an Open Source
>infrastructure. I guess I'm a little passionate about the issue. I
>keep an eye on the editorials all the time wondering when someone is
>going to write in challenging the Governor and the state in general to
>look at Open Source solutions. Perhaps we can all take part in writing
>to your representative or other forums to bring this issue to light.
>
>Tim Jordan
>
>One last note. Does AKLUG do any voulenteer work for non-profit
>organizations?
>
>

Hi Tim,

Greg can speak "officially" as the elected person of AKLUG. "Un-officially" as a past official, yes we have in the past.

Dee McKinney

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