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.
Notes on the process:
Questions should be as specific as possible, especially with respect to dates. This makes evading the questions difficult.
The original answer documents can be requested if there is a suspicion that the provided answer may be male bovine fecal matter.
With that in mind:
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.
This question sounds a little vague... maybe 'internal applications' should be better defined -- JohnMcPherson
This question needs to be targetted only at the departments that do the above :) References:
Perhaps amusing facts can be found in these doc files 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.. :-)
(Paired with the above question where appropriate)
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.