[HLUG] Publicity - viral

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Fri Sep 2 12:57:35 UTC 2011


Quoting Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com>:
> On 2 September 2011 10:43, Heather Dontenville <heather at opensure.net> wrote:
>> Through Twitter HLUG and the education project have come to the attention
>> of Mark Taylor of Sirius (@Mark_Antony), who has connections with
>> government, and Alan Lord (@opensourcerer), who were talking this morning
>> about French kids being given open source software for the new term, and the
>> impossibility of justifying our current ICT teaching, so I popped up and
>> told them about the project, and got responses. They're both now following
>> the HLUG account.
>
> Good stuff. I follow Alan Lord anyway, has an interesting Twitter feed

Mark used to be the head of the Open Source Consortium a few years  
back - he's a good guy and a thorn in the side of government when it  
comes to adopting F/LOSS

M.
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