I always talk about how open source at the moment is big in software (apart from wikipedia and a few others), but also should apply to other areas - especially teaching materials (I work in education). People often see the value of sharing valuable materials which teach a point effectively, but also allowing others to save teachers' time (which is very limited here in the UK) by adapting the materials themselves.
PDF is a good example of how not to publish teaching materials (unfortunately lots of people love to publish in PDF in education - oh why?)
The IPPR (google for it - a left-wing Governmental policy thinktank) is waking up to this idea of open source for education and is starting to publish reports which advocate this idea. So finally, we may see the Government moving away from the old top-down (aka Cathedral) approach, which hasn't been at all effective.
Perhaps think about an area in the company where people could share information more freely?
Joe/Jane probably don't use it because they don't see it as important. My wife uses Thunderbird/Enignmail easily, with no technical difficulty, because I've told her about the benefits it brings. She has very little technical experience whatsoever.
My guess is that they still won't use crypto email, despite CipherMail.
Myself, ciphermail *has* to release the code before I use it, and it has to reach critical mass - even then, I'll probably still stick to good old GPG.
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I always talk about how open source at the moment is big in software (apart from wikipedia and a few others), but also should apply to other areas - especially teaching materials (I work in education). People often see the value of sharing valuable materials which teach a point effectively, but also allowing others to save teachers' time (which is very limited here in the UK) by adapting the materials themselves.
PDF is a good example of how not to publish teaching materials (unfortunately lots of people love to publish in PDF in education - oh why?) The IPPR (google for it - a left-wing Governmental policy thinktank) is waking up to this idea of open source for education and is starting to publish reports which advocate this idea. So finally, we may see the Government moving away from the old top-down (aka Cathedral) approach, which hasn't been at all effective.
Perhaps think about an area in the company where people could share information more freely?
Joe/Jane probably don't use it because they don't see it as important. My wife uses Thunderbird/Enignmail easily, with no technical difficulty, because I've told her about the benefits it brings. She has very little technical experience whatsoever. My guess is that they still won't use crypto email, despite CipherMail. Myself, ciphermail *has* to release the code before I use it, and it has to reach critical mass - even then, I'll probably still stick to good old GPG.