[Bradford] Response to NonMS schools petition

[David Carpenter]

Thanks David

Your post got me google-ing and it was interesting! I present the
following with no bias either way, make up your own minds...

The OSS from a company with no experience of OSS, eventually set this
up:http://opensourceschools.org.uk/
and I'm pretty sure you could have expected something with a bit more
punch from some of the other bidders for that contract.

Look what I found in there tho...:
http://opensourceschools.org.uk/help-desk-and-resource-booking-dixons-city-academy.html

Interesting
David



On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:14 +0000, David Parkin wrote:
> David,
> You try googling BECTA. They have, in the past, been criticised for commisioning work on OSS from a company with no experience of OSS, losing £200m of taxpayers money (on the current M$ deal). I seem to recall that early on they supported OOXML, like the rest of HMG; looking at the response to the petition, it seems that their current stance is based on opposition the the terms of the contract on offer from M$. For many state schools the issue is not BECTA but the deals that the local authority (or SERCO, as Bradfordians call it) impose on the schools.   
> http://www.theregister.co..uk/2008/06/13/becta_open_source_schools/
> http://www.educause.edu/blog/StuartYeates/BECTAattackedontwofrontsoverop/166521
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
> To: bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, 28 September, 2009 9:55:39
> Subject: [Bradford] Response to NonMS schools petition
> 
> The response to the NonMS schools petition:
> http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/
> 
> Has been published:
> 
> http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20711
> 
> Interesting, Becta doesn't come across badly in my opinion. The link
> from the response - while kind of not 100% on the mark makes interesting
> reading:
> http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35287&CFID=3039363&CFTOKEN=a137e9f25b9bd7a6-039B1B27-E009-1FF0-287783710978C9D8
> 
> What's quite clear is that they'd like to see the adoption of open
> document formats in schools. - AND there is a requirement to educate
> parents about free-to-use alternatives.
> 
> Food for thought, fuel for action?
> 
> Cheers
> David 
> 
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