Re: [ossig] oscc link not working ..

[Yusseri Yusoff <yusseri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 January 2005 15:00, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
> which is my point, if MAMPU intends public/community usage of it, then the
> approach/methods to use the centre should be made clear.

It is clear, for now. Public sector only. See following reply below for more 
explanation. In a sense, it's a shame that the Getronics MNCC-OSCC have been 
deprecated. It's a little late now I guess, but the MNCC could have "twinned" 
their OSCC with MAMPU's OSCC.

>
> exactly, so it should be made clear if OSCC is open to the public/community
> or just government agencies and their vendors.
>

Right now, it's only open for the government agencies. It's not open even for 
their vendors, unless the agencies themselves request it. Arguably, this is a 
limitation of the current project scope, but in mitigation, this limitation 
is known and acknowledged. Remedy is what MAMPU needs to investigate. The 
desire to turn it into a national centre is there.

> > Inclusion of community input can and should be made, but here's the thing
> > that the community has to think of:
> >
> > Do we wait for them to approach us, or do we go to them?
>
> perhaps a meeting to discuss approaches ? :)

Yeh, that should be done... Whee ... more meetings, eh? Them MOSIG fellers 
should start this, I think (ouch! I think that hit me as well).

In all seriousness, a community push is needed, not just for the MAMPU OSCC, 
but also for the government as a whole to see that this open source thing can 
be credible and be made to work. Similarly, a strong - STRONG - private 
sector push is also needed, both as adopters and providers of open source 
stuff. As much as the community and the private sector look to see what these 
govmint people are doing, the govmint is also looking back to see what these 
other guys are doing.

yusseri


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