On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihannibal@gmail.com wrote:
Some FLOSS solution simply take more time than proprietary ones, and I know for a fact that the tech team have soooo much things to do that we should a) give them a break if they investigate a matter properly (which they seem to have done here) and decide that a proprietary solution will have to do for now, and b) try to help them as much as we can, by solving problems they haven't time to solve themselves. Let's therefore close this thread and move on to more important things.
Last I checked there was plenty of room to expand the tech team's budget. So I hope the decision wasn't simply a matter of not having enough time. A collaborative project making free educational content needs free tools. Google knows about the importance of collaborative tools. That's why they created Google Apps. Hopefully there's at least a plan in place for eventually migrating back off of Google.
Now, agreed, let's close this thread and move on to more important things: expanding the tech budget.