[Klug-general] How does Kent County Council select software?

[Jonathan Kaye]

Nathan Friend wrote on 19/09/14 08:31:
> You could try a Freedom Of Information Request to KCC to find out
> about the decision process.  I suspect it goes along the lines of
> perceived accessibility, what do the public expect a computer to look
> like.
>
> Last year I helped a local radio station switch it's whole
> infrastructure to Linux, there was some resistance but with training
> and selecting a distro that looks a bit like windows (Zorin), we made
> it work.
>
> Nathan.
>
Thanks Nathan. I've already written to one of the Kent County
councillors (Wm Scobie to be exact) asking about this. I'll look around
for the procedure to use a Freedom of Information Request and see what
fruit that will bear.
cheers,
Jonathan