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-On Thursday the 18th of November, the [WLUG] was priveleged
to have RodneyHide, the leader of NewZealand's [ACT] political party, address us.
+On Thursday the 18th of November, the [WLUG] was privileged
to have RodneyHide, the leader of NewZealand's [ACT] political party, address us.
See the [MeetingTopics.2004-11-18] page for an outline of this enjoyable meeting.
The [WLUG] should focus on raising Parliamentary questions, and Rodney will endeavor to assist us in formulating these in the most effective manner.
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RodneyHide asked us what questions we'd like various government departments asked. This page is where we can discuss questions and talk about rewording them before their submission. Each question is made into a title so that the discussion about that question can happen underneath.
-!How much money has ''this department'' spent in the last financial year on Microsoft
products?
+!How much money has ''this department'' spent in the last financial year on commercial proprietary software
products?
-!How many machines within ''this department'' are running Linux in production as of ''today''?
+!How many machines within ''this department'' are running Linux or other OpenSource operating systems
in production as of ''today''?
!How many internal applications within ''this department'' are currently written in a way that are not immediately portable to other operating systems?
-!How much money has ''this department'' spent in the last financial year on protecting against and recovering from worms
and viruses
?
+This question sounds a little vague... maybe 'internal applications' should be better defined -- JohnMcPherson
+
+
+
!How much money has ''this department'' spent in the last financial year on protecting against and recovering from worm
and virus infections
?
!How much downtime has ''this department'' experienced in person hours that was due to a loss of service caused by worms and viruses?
!Why does ''this department'' consider it safe to publish .doc files on its public website?
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References:
* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.27.html#subj6
* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.50.html#subj7
-Perhaps amusing facts can be found in these [doc files|http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=allinurl:+.doc+site:govt.nz+-site:www.doc.govt.nz
&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe
=off
&as_qdr=all&start
=10
&sa
=N
]
+Perhaps amusing facts can be found in these [doc files|http://www.google.co.nz/search?as_
q=&num=100
&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=
&lr=lang_en&as_ft
=i&as_filetype=doc
&as_qdr=all&as_occt
=url
&as_dt
=i&as_sitesearch=govt.nz&safe=off
]
revision histories which can be rephrased in form of a question.
+
+(zcat notes: searching for files of type "doc" with no search string works better than looking for the string ".doc" and then excluding the department of conservation.. :-)
!Why does ''this department'' not have versions of its files available for download in a more open format such as pdf or html?
(Paired with the above question where appropriate)
!How much of the last round of ''funding body ([FRST]/[TBG])'' projects gone towards development of Open Source Software as defined by http://www.opensource.org/?
+
+!When awarding contracts for software application development, would ''the department'' consider favouring Open Sourced solutions as being in the best interests of NewZealand citizens? If not, why not?
!Why does [FRST] not consider the production of Open Source software to be a valid objective for funding especially in the light of high quality software like MozillaFirefox being produced in New Zealand?
!!Other things we need to phrase into questions:
* Microsoft in Schools
* ComCom & [ADSL] in New Zealand?
+* Māori language translations/interfaces (eg gnome 2.6 and kde have some 'mi' locale support). Educational software that has a US focus rather than NZ? (video/audio accents, history (think 'Oregon Trail', etc)
+
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+Something I think needs dicussing is the idea of Government (Tax Payer) funds being used by IT Contractors to develop custom appliations that are licensed under a proprietory license. I think all "new code" developed from Governmental organisations should be licensed under an Open Source license. We as tax payers paid for the software, we should own the software.
