Challenge to Transfer IT Power in MA

Andy Updegrove writes "Linda Hamel, the General Counsel of the Massachusetts department that is struggling to establish ODF for state use, has prepared a challenge to those in the State Senate that would strip State CIO Peter Quinn of his power to set IT policy. Her analysis graphically describes why a task force of political appointees has no business telling more than 2000 IT professionals what to do."

Comments

The whole enchilada...

[Cherita Chen]

Peter Korn of Sun Microsystems has put together a very impressive collection of data and analysis on the ODF controversy on his blog site. Definitly worth a look if you wish to get the full story...

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn/LargePrintWe blog/20051113

Re:As a MA resident....

[evilviper]

It is a pdf. It was not authored as a fill-in form and as far as I can tell it is not editable in any way (I made a half hearted attempt with a full version of Adobe 5)

You have several options...

On Windows you can use the free Foxit PDF reader, which allows you to write text overlayed on PDFs, and allows you to print the results. I would suggest printing to file, with any postscript (PS) print driver, then convert to PDF with ghostscript, ps2pdf.com, acrobat distiller, etc.

On Unix or Windows, you can open PDFs using GIMP, and add in text like you would with any image. Then you can convert the images to a big PDF document if you like.

Personally, I would use something like pdf2html (requires ghostscript), and edit the resulting HTML document. From there you can decide if you want to return it as HTML, or convert it back into PDF.