<p>Any BCS members can respond to a consultation document about &#39;open standards ... in government IT&#39; as part of a formal consultation process. Last time I heard of this happening the 3 responses the BCS received ended up as UK government policy</p>

<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 3, 2012 8:25 PM, &quot;Richard Barker&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:richard.barker@quietwatercourse.co.uk">richard.barker@quietwatercourse.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    On 03/04/12 10:19, Peter Cannon wrote:
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      03/04/12 09:19, Richard Smedley wrote:
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      Ooh I just seen this;
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      &quot;LinuxQuestions member initiated an e-petition to call for a
      Windows to Linux migration on the government IT systems.
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      <a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255" target="_blank">http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255</a>
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      Please share if you find the cause worthy.&quot;
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    That looks interesting, I&#39;ve signed it and will try to spread the
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