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Bid to push FOSS in Australian secondary schools
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| A group of free and open source advocates in Australia has made a timely move
| to try and increase the use of FOSS in the nation's secondary schools.
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| Among the other signatories were Max McLaren, the general manager for Red Hat
| Linux in the Asia-Pacific region, and Karen Koomen, who handles government
| affairs for IBM Australia. Local Linux luminaries Stewart Smith, the current
| president of Linux Australia, well-known kernel hacker Paul "Rusty" Russell
| and Andrew Tridgell, Australia's best known free software personality and the
| developer of Samba and rsync, are also part of the push.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19209/1148/
Important precedence is set. Other schools may follow suit.
Recent:
CeBIT 08: Senator Lundy lobbies for Open Source change
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| Lundy also described debates about allowing open access to Crown copyright
| material, open access to government-funded research, and Open Source
| licensing of software that is developed with taxpayers’ money.
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| “Governments tend to want to hold onto that [software] as an asset, and a lot
| of opportunities for innovation are lost that way,” Lundy said.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/76453,senator-lundy-lobbies-for-open-source-change.aspx
Open Source programmers earn more and combat trade deficit
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| The findings from the fourth-quarter 2007 Open Source Industry and Community
| survey is out. The authors say the results show open source is effective in
| combating trade deficit and that IT professionals involved in open source
| earn more than their more proprietary colleagues. Let’s check it out.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17626/1141/
Australian open source industry worth $500 million
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| "The industry as a whole is earning $500 million," said Jeff Waugh,
| co-founder of Waugh Partners, which conducted the survey online late last
| year. "Directly open source related earnings are about $300 million, but the
| reason why we're distinguishing between these numbers is the industry is not
| just companies that build open source software. They also use open source
| products to support other parts of their business as well."
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| Waugh said the figure was calculated by taking the midpoint earnings figures
| specified by companies who took part, and extrapolating over the broader ICT
| industry using existing data such as surveys by the Australian Bureau of
| Statistics and Australian Computer Society. Waugh Partners estimates the
| respondents represent about a quarter of the overall industry.
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http://www.apcmag.com/australian_open_source_industry_worth_500_million.htm
Open source increases its share
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| BUSINESS generated directly from open source software in Australia is worth
| about $300 million a year, with government a large contributor to the pie, a
| study shows.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,23462470-5013040,00.html?from=public_rss
Local Government Urged to Consider Open Source
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| The senior IT officer from a West Australian shire says open source software
| can provide a way forward for councils suffering budgetary constraints.
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http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;546692901
Related:
Governments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices
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| A leading Australian open source advocate has called for an end for to
| tender lock-outs of competitors to Microsoft, claiming the practice
| is costing Australian taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each
| year.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11496/53/
Feds revise IT procurement model
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| The federal government has launched version two of the SourceIT
| model contracts and user notes aimed at simplifying procurement of
| information technology 12 months after the first version.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=805606582&rid=-50
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