[Bradford] "UK Government mandates preferential selection of open source"

[David Carpenter]

And Nick, I think you said you would be willing to do a 5 min
interview over Skype/Hangout to talk about this. I'm not going to have
any time really to do this, but maybe someone else might like to
do/try it? (Brian? David? John? Other?)

Cheers
David

On 19 March 2013 22:04, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
> My new job is a partly a result of this (moved from a pure .net role). I
> work now primarily with open source, though we still have to graft onto a
> lot of existing closed source systems in place.
>
> Our Org the soon to be http:/www.hscic.gov.uk, currently
> http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/ is taking open source technology,
> open standards and agile way of working seriously.
> Internally we have used open source tech in places for a long time. There
> are now entire prototype projects in development that as far as I’m aware
> that use full stack open source from server to open source languages.
>
> E.g. Spine 2  is using Python, Flash framework, Tornado web servers.
>
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3421156/new-nhs-database-will-succeed-with-open-source-agile-says-supplier/
>
> Cheers, Nick
>
>
> On 19/03/13 21:25, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>
> Not sure what[1] will mean in practice...
>
> However, it can't help to think about learning an open source language like
> Ruby or Python...
>
> Robert
>
> [1]
> http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/03/19/uk-government-mandates-preferential-selection-of-open-source/
>
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