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Oooh, me me me! As your designated military-indus...
Anonymous · 2010-10-27T21:21:44.360000
Oooh, me me me! As your designated military-industrial complex employee, let me say...
- there's no code sharing within the federal government. Nothing like a sourceforge.gov with packages designed by governmental workers for their needs. I write all sorts of software specialized to meet various internal government regulatory requirements and have no way to distribute it to others in the government who could make use of it, or (more importantly) publicize it to them.
- no awareness of the value of the tech community. The only efforts to enhance employees' tech knowledge come through sporadic demands to view spectacularly dumb training videos or to obtain meaningless certifications from e.g. CompTIA.
- and, of course, the general bureaucratic baloney: lists of Officially Approved Software that are absurdly short, outdated, hard to update, and proprietary-skewed; management that knows less than nothing about FOSS; etc. But those are the too-obvious-to-say complaints.
Thanks very much, Catherine. I added a slide at th...
Steve · 2010-10-29T08:56:30.243000
Thanks very much, Catherine. I added a slide at the start of the talk entitled "A Word from the Ranks" with abbreviated bullets for each of your three points.
I'd appreciate your opinion on the video, which should be on-line before too long. I'll post a URL if I find one.
UPDATE: I was told a couple of days ago that the v...
Anonymous · 2010-12-22T20:56:43.672000
UPDATE: I was told a couple of days ago that the video should be up "soon".
Oooh, me me me! As your designated military-indus...
Anonymous · 2010-10-27T21:21:44.360000
Oooh, me me me! As your designated military-industrial complex employee, let me say...- there's no code sharing within the federal government. Nothing like a sourceforge.gov with packages designed by governmental workers for their needs. I write all sorts of software specialized to meet various internal government regulatory requirements and have no way to distribute it to others in the government who could make use of it, or (more importantly) publicize it to them.
- no awareness of the value of the tech community. The only efforts to enhance employees' tech knowledge come through sporadic demands to view spectacularly dumb training videos or to obtain meaningless certifications from e.g. CompTIA.
- and, of course, the general bureaucratic baloney: lists of Officially Approved Software that are absurdly short, outdated, hard to update, and proprietary-skewed; management that knows less than nothing about FOSS; etc. But those are the too-obvious-to-say complaints.
Thanks very much, Catherine. I added a slide at th...
Steve · 2010-10-29T08:56:30.243000
Thanks very much, Catherine. I added a slide at the start of the talk entitled "A Word from the Ranks" with abbreviated bullets for each of your three points.I'd appreciate your opinion on the video, which should be on-line before too long. I'll post a URL if I find one.
UPDATE: I was told a couple of days ago that the v...
Anonymous · 2010-12-22T20:56:43.672000
UPDATE: I was told a couple of days ago that the video should be up "soon".Page 1 of 1
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