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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, tom wrote: > >>> Does no-one do proper jobs anymore? So much for getting a career... >>> >>> They'd probably be better off simply asking a local (to devon) >>> company to manage their website for them. It'd probably be cheaper >>> too... >>> > >> Cheaper? From my experience getting a contractor in to do council work >> is several times more expensive than inhouse. > > I didn't mean giving it to a contractor, I meant giving it to a web > design company - well, maybe their externally facing one anyway. In > exactly the same way an online shop, etc. uses web design companies, > then so might local councils. > > However I bet there's a lot of wrangling involved internally, so it'll > never happen. > > It just seems to me that no-one has a "proper" job now - it's all > fixed-term contracts - giving the employees no real incentive to do a > good job IMO - if I were to take that "job" and I knew it really was > fixed-term, do you think I'd care about what happens to it after I'd > left? I'd probably also be spending the last 3 months looking for a new > job too. > > I really don't think it's a good way to encourage someone to do a good job. > > Hope you've all done (or are going to do) your civic duty today too! If > you don't vote, you can't complain. > > Gordon > This is clearly something else to write to MP's about, especially if we want more councils to look in to open source, they need to recruit and retain the best staff to do the job and make them feel part of a team, rather than a short term solution. I think after the election we need to as a lug do a big big push on open standards and open source, if enough of us do this, MP's will have to sit up and listen. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is 29th April : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvipwUACgkQaggq1k2FJq2jiQCggHXySIxdJdxAa3kvkUvzWQIW 1dgAnRWpgbjsCqYWH9ZuwKPlXjObgAme =dcGP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html