[Lancaster] Fwd: [lugmaster] FW: NCC voluntary sector survey

[max*]

Yes, I've tried to fill in their forms, but it's in Acrobat Reader v7 format! 
that doesn't work with the usual ghostscript based viewers, and if you were 
thinking of downloading acrobat reader 7 to do it then consider how that 
lovely piece of software phones home with information about what you're 
viewing whenever you open a document in it! (yes, you can turn it off by 
editing the config file, you can block stuff going to a particular url with 
yoru firewall etc etc, but we shouldn't have to!)

the joys of proprietry software!

i've emailed the organisation to ask them to do another format, or an open pdf 
standard (particularly seeing as they're asking about FOSS!), but no reply 
yet :-(

perhaps others may wish to drop them a line on OSHub at ncc.co.uk ?

max

> NCC has been commissioned to build the use of Open Source by the UK
> voluntary and community sector by the ICT Hub funded by the Home Office to
> improve the sector's ICT infrastructure.
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> This new Open Source initiative, OS Hub,  will help local community groups
> benefit from Free and Open Source technology and will help Open Source
> suppliers meet the sector's growing expectations.
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> To begin with we need to put together a snapshot of existing provision and
> support, to that end we have created a rapid survey of either voluntary and
> community organisations or suppliers and support organisations. We wish to
> conduct a quick survey. This should not take long, and there is an
> excellent prize to be drawn after the close of the survey on May 10th.
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> The short set of questions can be found on the web site at
> http://www.ncc.co.uk/research/projects/os_hub.cfm Please respond to
> OSHub at ncc.co.uk.
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> I hope that this is of some interest to you,  and  would also ask if that
> you pass it on to anyone who might be interested.
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> Many thanks
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> Regards
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> Ed Downs
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