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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:25:01PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > 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. > > > 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. > I see in the Independent that the UK is forecast to have the largest budget deficit in Europe: including Ireland, Greece etc. Which Government gets in, is going to have some painful decisions: they take the decisions, we take the pain http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/david-prosser-the-debates-are-over-but-the-real-economic-argument-is-just-beginning-1964394.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/britain-to-top-eu-borrowing-league-warns-commission-1964395.html We all know that with appropriate FLOSS costs can be cut, and it could help people develop skills with IT. My only worry is that the Government will cut rather than change the way it operates. I still feel the best would be to wait for the first cuts in a public necessity, wait for the screams of outrage and then highlight alternative ways of making those cuts: ie switch to open source. If the press used FLOSS: so much the better -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Thu May 6 13:18:59 BST 2010
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