On 17 April 2012 18:15, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > This thread seems to have become about open source vs. closed source, and > what exactly counts as industry standard or best of breed. > > I think there is a much more sensible policy we could pursue here: > > 1. If there is a reasonably well-developed open source alternative, use it. > 2. If not, use whatever the best priced solution is. > 3. Use the community to help decide what the best solution is. > > Given Wikipedia's inherent systemic bias towards young geeky men with > computing experience, I'm sure some reasonably pragmatic advisers can be > sought on a voluntary basis from within Wikimedia UK's membership.
1 and 2 are already policy. Forming a "WMUK Software Advisory Group" to help implement that policy is a good idea. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
