to get the ball rolling

DBE is on the verge of becoming a significant attractor for a lot of different stakeholders, I have noticed a change in peoples reactions and interest over the past few months. The regional networking meeting is a good example of this - a crowded meeting,packed agenda, not enough time to discuss what we wanted. That's a good sign but just the beginning of a large challenge. There are now high expectations and we need to ensure that there is proper follow up and action, as well as delivery in as much as this is possible within the project. What we can't deliver can be communicated to the DBE community as a challenge. There was an interesting article about Open office this week in the UK Guardian newspaper which has positive - and some negative - messages, worth a read http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1660763,00.html?gusrc=rss 'The OpenOffice project vividly illustrates the limitations of open source as a way of producing software' Andrew Brown Thursday December 8, 2005The Guardian 'Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that "Many eyes make bugs shallow", suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded. The only problem with this is that it's not true - certainly not in one of the flagship projects of open source, OpenOffice.... '