On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 23:18 -0600, Mark Galassi wrote: > Federico> 10. Be computer literate. Preferably Linux literate. > > I hope that it will be a firm requirement that only free s/w be used > to run the Foundation's administration. > > I know you are only talking about literacy, not what tools will be > used, but I think this is a good moment to state that if we start > hiring non-free-sw-hackers to do this kind of work, we should insist > that they use free tools. > > I still remember my sadness when I worked for Cygnus and saw that the > non-developers did not use free s/w across the board. Right now, we use free tools to run almost all the foundation's books. We use gnucash, abiword, glabels[1] and gnucash for the bookkeeping. The GNOME tools are more than adequate to handle the Foundation's needs. We do have a vmware instance to run Internet Explorer just for online banking. No one on the board is happy with this situation, and we're planning on switching banks over this issue. Thanks, -Jonathan [1] which is a really nice and underpromoted program. Many kudos to the authors for doing such a slick job on this application.
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