[plug] Kate Lundy (was: Cameron's Conf)

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:12, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> As one of the SLPWA members who have met with Kate to discuss Open
> Source, I found her to be if not knowledgable, then at least willing
> to learn. Have a lot of time for her, and I can think of much worse
> people (re alstom) to have as the polly in charge of IT.

Agree.

Kate's public performance is excellent, and I think far exceeds her 
actual knowledge of the topic - but having said that her actual 
knowledge is clearly head and shoulders above that of the bulk of the 
pollies around her.

Another bloke whom I'd love to see in politics even if only to displace 
some self-interested placeholder is Stephen Donaldson (no, not the 
author of White Gold Wielder &c; and I have a customer named Stephen 
King who is also not a famous author).

Steve runs the IT training crew at Adelaide TAFE, and as part of the 
educationaLinux tour of the TAFE he gave a detailed explanation (well, 
story, really) of how they arranged to turn "over my dead body" into 
*requests* for Open Source software.

Steve held us spellbound for the entire talk, and not just because of 
his Scotch accent. He really, really knows what he is doing and 
understands how to work the system to achieve his ends - in an entirely 
above-board, legally and morally correct way. I really wish we'd been 
able to tape his talk, it'd be an inspiration and a lesson which Linux 
advocacy would hopefully never recover from. (-:

Cheers; Leon