[LUAU] Hosef on Desktoplinux.com

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Incidentally, many of us probably don't think the State of Hawaii is 
doing a whole lot about OpenSourceSoftware.  But during the most recent 
AOSS (Asian Open Source Software) symposium, some attendees praised our 
State's contributions in the "Plone" project (until its most recent 
update, Plone's home page used to prominently display Governor Lingo's 
picture) .

(Hawaii's Plone team produced an impressive demo video; one Taiwanese 
attendee told me that he used this video to convince his boss to fund 
his own Plone project:)

http://olepe.icsd.hawaii.gov/dags/icsd/content/video/higovdemo_250k.asf

Also, it appears that our state eGovernment employees have gone the 
extra mile and made it sure that their Adobe pdf files are compatible 
with the Linux OS.  If you have tried to print the downloaded tax forms 
from the Federal IRS in Linux, then you know that there are a lot of 
things Washington DC can learn from Honolulu.

Indeed, Hawaii's "open OS" attitude (thus, freeing the general public 
from being reined by a single OS vendor--Microsoft) should be the model 
for all the other 49 states.  Microsoft Windows is used by perhaps 90% 
of all computer users, but that should not mean that our government can 
ignore the rights of the rest 10%, and thus becoming the primary force 
to uphold Microsoft's felonious monopoly.  wayne



Ho'ala Greevy wrote:

>HOSEF was recently featured in PBN too (free sign-up)
>
>http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2004/09/06/story6.html
>
>-ho'ala
>
>
>Wayne Maeda said:
>  
>
>>"Nonprofit brings Linux and open source to Hawaii - Hawaii schools,
>>affected by lean budgets like many other US states this year, have
>>upgraded their computer systems through the help of the open source
>>community and Linux. A local nonprofit, the Oahu-based Hawaii Open
>>Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) has supplied over a dozen
>>Hawaiian schools with computers ..."
>>
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