[Gllug] Open Source for charities?

[Ryan Cartwright]

Sean Burlington wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    The Home Office has decided to throw money at another project, see
>>
>> NCC Membership - OS Hub
>>
>> http://www.ncc.co.uk/research/projects/os_hub.cfm
>>
> 
> I'd fill in their survey ... but
> 
> "Note: The following pdfs require version 7 of Acrobat Reader."
> 
> :-(
> 

Well working for a charity which makes use of FOSS [1] and being keen 
[2] to promote its use within the VCS, I filled it in. There's a nice 
question at the end which asks for comments to them so I said this...

"Just one. You ask us to fill-in this form on use of FOSS and yet the 
form cannot be used in FOSS pdf readers (kpdf, xpdf etc.) because it 
requires Adobe Reader to send the content back to you. Seems a little 
daft to exclude people using FOSS in a survey about FOSS use in the VCS :o)
I am aware that Acrobat reader is available for Linux but I prefer to 
use FOSS where possible not proprietary clients running on a FOSS desktop.
Why do you insist I use a proprietary piece of software would a web form 
not have done the job?"

BTW The data file it e-mails is just an XML - anyone want the template 
and you can then just fill it in and send it by e-mail.

Cheers
Ryan
[1] http://www.cafamily.org.uk/oss
[2] http;//www.socialsource.org.uk
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