[Liverpool] Fwd: [Advocacy] OSS going before parliament next week

[Hartley, Daniel]

Great. The playing field is ridiculously skewed currently..

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On 15 Apr 2012, at 20:16, "Richard Smedley" <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Advocacy]  OSS going before parliament next week
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kristen Eisenberg <kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Kristen Eisenberg <kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com>, Unix and FLOSS advocacy <advocacy at lists.ukuug.org>
> To: advocacy at lists.ukuug.org <advocacy at lists.ukuug.org>
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> After the Queen's Speech this week, John Pugh MP will put down an Early
> Day Motion we've written saying nice things about OSS in education and
> expressing concern that Becta and the DfES aren't doing anything to
> promote it, even as far as a level playing field.
> 
> When it's down, we'll be asking you to contact your MP and ask them to
> sign the EDM (we'll provide all the information you need to state the case).
> 
> Myself, Leslie, Ian Lynch and Sue McGuire met with Becta's new Chief
> Executive last week (Becta being the govt. body advising schools on
> ICT).  Becta have made it clear that they do not believe their
> procurement frameworks are unfair to OSS and they have no plans to
> promote OSS outside those frameworks.
> 
> We disagree and are not going to be shy in saying so.  If you can help
> us beyond contacting MPs (e.g. getting the message clear on our website,
> writing press releases, contacting other organisations that might
> support us (OSS, open standards, schools, universities, political groups
> etc.)) please let me know.
> 
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