OT - [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] open source management...]

[Kevin Shackleton <kevins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> My point is that even as the technical guys get older and
> slow down, they bring in young people to fill in the gaps
> and then concentrate on the precision components themselves.
> 
> That enhances business growth and they pull in talent
> from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Croatia and neighbouring
> countries.
> 

Compare this model with "This (remote) life" in last weekend's Weekend
Australian Review section.  The complaint was getting skilled workers to
support remote aboriginal settlements - eg to keep gensets & bore pumps
running.  Government department policy seems to completely miss the
model you describe.  Please don't start a racist thread off this - as
one myself I'm talking about lack of government policies which could
lead to up-skilling of rural, regional and remote workers.

K.