[nmglug] any insight/input into the city tech overhaul?

[Aaron Birenboim]

Interesting thread. Keep us informed.

However, I'd advocate trying to use the term "open source" or "open
standards" as opposed to "free"
whenever possible.

On 09/24/2018 10:47 AM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
> Thanks for your attention to this matter.
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:38 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>     I saw my city high level contact yesterday and she said she has
>     yet to read my email re: this. She promised that she would and
>     though she can't directly impact the project she may know how to
>     get into the city machinations. I'll keep all posted.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 09/17/2018 07:39 AM, Mark Galassi wrote:
>>     Dear nmglugers,
>>
>>     I came upon this article:
>>
>>     http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/outside-party-to-review-city-of-santa-fe-systems-update/article_572b94ef-2593-506c-9fb9-962cdff0f85a.html
>>
>>     in which they discuss external review of Santa Fe's IT infrastructure.
>>
>>     These overhauls sometimes involve picking some company, reading their
>>     brochure, and giving them a contract.
>>
>>     I have seen a large institution where they replaced the UW IMAP server
>>     with a Microsoft exchange system, going from 50% of an employee to run
>>     the institution's email to 3 full-time people to run the Microsoft
>>     ...  It would also be cool if someone had the
>>     ear of the city's IT planners and could propose some free software
>>     adoption, as well as a requirement free software compatibility.
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