[Telecentres] Re: Basic Telecentre Items - avoid open source debate

[Anna Badimo]

Hi,

I fully support Taran. I think it's high time the we as Open Source developers
enhance software that address the gaps mentioned.

Best Regards
Anna Badimo
+27 11 717 6197.

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WITS University


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From: Taran Rampersad <cnd at knowprose.com>
To: telecentres at wsis-cs.org
Sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:35:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [Telecentres] 	Re:  Basic Telecentre Items - avoid open source debate

> Toby Beresford wrote:
> 
> >
> > In my experience there is often still a big gap between software and
> > end-users - the gap between some software and end-users is still
> > fairly large, the smallest gap between user and function,(i.e. easiest
> > to use by novice users) tends to be in software that is highly
> > engineered - hotmail, outlook, word, netscape, amazon, ATM bank
> > machines etc. Linux is still really a power tool for techies.
> > Personally I don't think we should limit what telecentres can achieve
> > by waiting for the right software to be built for us, we need to build
> > appropriate solutions ourselves.
> 
> Before we even get into this debate - and it is a debate I will
> participate in - perhaps we should define what functions Telecenter
> software should perform. Then we can get into the details.
> 
> Personally, I think people will be hard pressed to find software for
> Telecentres which does not exist yet as Free Software/Open Source, 
> but we can't be 100% sure until we define the functions.
> 
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