While I'm for helping the fellow person. I am disgusted with how much money in taxes we pay , in how are country is suppose to be so great, and over here we have the strongest goverment in the world asking for donations , f 'n handouts. This is event has made me very shameful of our Goverment leaders.
I work for a school district in California. As a Computer Tech there , I find a lot of free time , and I R&D various OSS projects. At most places of business a Calendar is very important. In our case we where using WEBEVENT for about 4 years, this software is not open source, and it cost more than $10K for software and hosting. After the MEETINGMAKER ( another calendar software) bought WEBEVENT out , they killed the little tech support they had , and could not provide a proper in-house solution for us, instead they hosted it for us.
I decided to look in sourceforge for something like it or better and found WEBCALENDAR ( http://webcalendar.sourceforge.org/ ) . While I Can't say I am expert in anything MySql PHP or Apache , I managed to get this working right. I played with this for a couple months and I mastered the different functions.
When I was finally confident with WEBCALENDAR, I pitched it to my boss ( make sure you schedule 30 mins in his/her calendar or else you will get interuptions etc , and you will not be able to get your idea across ) . After showing the calendar system , he was impressed , I told him not only is it in house , web based, but FREE.
We just roled out the calendar this monday, and trained about 20 people, and everything went well.
It was very great to see something you are trying to implement actually happen, and everyone thanks and appreciates my hard work in bringing this to them.
Im not a Microsoft apologist , but the figures are wrong , at my district , right next door to LAUSD we pay $47 for Microsoft Office. This is FUD , there is no way they pay $200 , thats just wrong. Volume licensing is under $50.
The Canadian Arrow team seems to be doing things a bit more intelligently, so if any Canadian launch works, I'd bet on that one."
Oh come on... Canada Blah !
Only a canuck would think that way.
I'm tired of hearing that we are missing the boat, other countries have TV coming out their toilets and Cell phones and other crap. American Net Culture is not interested in such things, We want stability, reliability, access, I don't care if I miss the next episode of General Hospital. I don't watch TV anyways, I don't SMS I dont send pictures or videos over Cell phones , I really dont see a need in my lifestyle. All I want to do is IRC AIM SSH a browse the web. Newspaper writers are trying to bunch all of us geek's around the world as if we want the same things, NO we are different we want different things than the swedes.
Not All Geeks like the same crap !!!
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While I'm for helping the fellow person. I am disgusted with how much money in taxes we pay , in how are country is suppose to be so great, and over here we have the strongest goverment in the world asking for donations , f 'n handouts. This is event has made me very shameful of our Goverment leaders.
When I was finally confident with WEBCALENDAR, I pitched it to my boss ( make sure you schedule 30 mins in his/her calendar or else you will get interuptions etc , and you will not be able to get your idea across ) . After showing the calendar system , he was impressed , I told him not only is it in house , web based, but FREE.
We just roled out the calendar this monday, and trained about 20 people, and everything went well.
It was very great to see something you are trying to implement actually happen, and everyone thanks and appreciates my hard work in bringing this to them.
This has opened the door for OSS at our district.
Manuelpl
Im not a Microsoft apologist , but the figures are wrong , at my district , right next door to LAUSD we pay $47 for Microsoft Office. This is FUD , there is no way they pay $200 , thats just wrong. Volume licensing is under $50.
The Canadian Arrow team seems to be doing things a bit more intelligently, so if any Canadian launch works, I'd bet on that one." Oh come on ... Canada Blah !
Only a canuck would think that way.
I'm tired of hearing that we are missing the boat, other countries have TV coming out their toilets and Cell phones and other crap. American Net Culture is not interested in such things, We want stability, reliability, access, I don't care if I miss the next episode of General Hospital. I don't watch TV anyways, I don't SMS I dont send pictures or videos over Cell phones , I really dont see a need in my lifestyle. All I want to do is IRC AIM SSH a browse the web. Newspaper writers are trying to bunch all of us geek's around the world as if we want the same things, NO we are different we want different things than the swedes. Not All Geeks like the same crap !!!
Defcon ?