[Gllug] Can somebody have a quiet word with him

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Mon Aug 12 21:20:37 UTC 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 08:26:54PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> >    I believe it is also important to be able to show people a working
> > system, rather than just describe how good it is.
> 
> For this purpose I think it would be important to show an integrated setup 
> - ie a whole office or whole school solution including all the elements 
> you might want to see including file/print(with quotas, etc), email, 
> scheduling, database, intranet, etc.
> 
> By showing a whole integrated solution that is very easy to manage we 
> would be demonstrating that Free Software works not just for isolated 
> cases and requirements but for integrated systems which is far more 
> important when trying to sell the idea.
>
Myself and a few other people have been talking about this off list a
little for a while now.  I have hardware, ideas and a little knowledge.
If other people would like to get involved take it over etc. I have no
objections personally.

Peace Jim

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