QLD Government Innovation Portal - Cool idea

QLD Government has recently opened up a site to garner outside thoughts on challenges which the government faces. These might be unusual problems about data, security, and just about anything which requires a solution  that some off the shelf software won't cut out of the box.

There is presently a discussion going on with regards to preserving calendars which are currently in Outlook PST files. Now as to the problems they are trying to solve with that preservation, such as it needs to have the ability to be readable and useful 100 years hence and what formats are open to preserve such things and retain the integrity of the original calendar entry  and be in a format which shall be readable by the fact the file specification will be openly preserved allowing anyone to go and read the file with readily available software knowing the file format.

There is learning going on with both sides of the conversation, with a response of the request specification needing to be addressed as the ideas whilst perhaps good have  a second set of issues. The asked and are altering the question in response to responses as they had learned their initial request may have had some gaps in it.

Well done to the guys at QLD government who set up and run the site and those that are willing to put their ideas out there and canvas a wider pool of thought.

This is a great idea and good to see some people getting into the spirit to try and resolve the question/problem raised.

I hope a lot more departments are able to bring problems to the open to get solutions which may never have been thought of using only oe set of views.

The site is http://innovation-portal.dsitia.qld.gov.au/

See ya round

Peter

Modelio 3.3 on Xubuntu 3.13

I recently started working with Modelio running on Xubuntu. f you are not familiar with Xubuntu it is a lightweight desktop Ubuntu build. Lighter UI than KDE or Gnome, you will likely end up with parts of KDE or Gnome in your system due to other applications you want to need either KDE or gnome libraries. It is still lightweight and the only reason I use Windows at home is for one purpose and that is accessing the Tax Office (ATO)
Now I am probably not as thin as originally installed as there are some things that you just try and work with.

Modelio has a few issues that you need to resolve to get it working.

Firstly download the software, mine was the open source version 3.3
Unpack it and move it to a directory.
Then you need to make sure your Java is correct. Modelio 3.3 requires java 8 you will need to make sure it is your default Java version, there are a few notes around on Ubuntu you require the alternatives command sudo update-alternatives --config java

I have then set the -vm parameter in modelio.ini to your Java 8 location

Without Java 8 you may find it loading with blank screen and no menus, or it wont start with a framework error.

I had a problem that the TOGAF module wouldn't enable in a project. It was a problem from a previous version of Modelio, actually a 32bit version. I deleted the project. So warning if changing Modelio export your projects before doing anything and import them to the new version. In this case, it was nothing important. You may not be so lucky