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

[Nick Rhodes]

Yes,
Quite happy to be interviewed - would like to get an idea of questions 
going to be asked in advance, probably start with who I work for and 
what i do and have done then onto some stuff about agile and open source 
I guess.

Cheers, Nick

On 20/03/13 11:07, David Carpenter wrote:
> 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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