[Bradford] FOSS Day: Meeting with Anthony Clipsom

[hudsonjr at ntlworld.com]

Notes of the meeting with Anthony Clipsom, Director of Bradford CVS, on Tuesday, 17 November 2009

1. Anthony Clipsom broadly welcomes the ideas and thanks us for our interest. He sees no objection in principle to the arrangements we are suggesting.

2. However, he is hesitant about its viability at the moment because the IT days they have run have tended to attract the faithful few rather than the wider audience we would like to attract.

3. The Bradford CVS uses OpenOffice on Windows and Firefox. In fact, Bradford Council now requires that all its web material supports both IE and Firefox.

4. Anthony will talk about the idea with colleagues because sometimes attitudes can change and, if it looks viable from the point of view of interest, he will get back to us.

5. In the meantime, Gavin, the Information Officer, would welcome short (250-300 words) articles on FOSS to go in their bulletin - starting with Firefox and OO. The deadline for the next bulletin is in January and thereafter the deadlines are about every six weeks.

John R Hudson
17 November 2009