Interview with California Air Resources Board CIO

SilentBob4 writes "Mad Penguin has published an exclusive interview with the CIO of California's ARB (Air Resources Board), Bill Welty." From the article: " Massachusetts might have been the FOSS shot heard 'round the world, but California may be quietly building pressure for an open source earthquake of its own. On the face of it, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is not setting the world on fire with its well-documented adoption of free open source software. It is using FOSS primarily in the back office, just like so many other governmental agencies and businesses. But if you dig just a little deeper, as shown in this Mad Penguin(TM) interview of the ARB staffers responsible for moving ARB toward a more FOSSy future, you can see that the seeds of more profound change gradually developing. "

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[Quirk]

I'm not one to nit pic mainly cause I like to sling slang too but the imagery and gridlocked metaphors here are just too much to pass up.

the FOSS shot heard 'round the world

quietly building pressure for an open source earthquake

On the face of it

setting the world on fire

if you dig just a little deeper

the seeds of more profound change gradually developing.

I'd like to try to compete but I'm just not up to it.

Well done and thanks for the laughs

Setting the world on fire?

[brusk]

That really shouldn't be within the purview of the Air Resources Board.

Re:The ARB is the worst example of this ever.

[Spazntwich]

Oh, I see you're experimenting with those newfangled things I've heard about. What're the names? "Logic" and "reason?"

Well listen here, son. We don't want your kind here. We make kneejerk posts and moderations, and that's the way we like it.