[Scottish] open source in business

[Alastair Broom]

I spoke to a number of people at the EdLug meeting last night about Open 
Source Software being used by Scottish companies, and thought I'd pass the 
same info onwards to ScotLug.

I was talking about www.opensourcescotland.org, which has been set up by 
myself and Kevin Campbell:

"OpenSourceScotland is an association website for any company operating in 
 Scotland who uses, supports or promotes Open Source Software 
 technologies."

We have the backing of Scotland IS (the trade body for the IT industry in 
Scotland), and are aiming to have a Scotland-IS sponsored launch event 
this summer before aKademy hits Glasgow and Debconf hits Edinburgh, with 
lots of Press, and speakers from companies that use OSS.

The aim is to increase the profile of Open Source Software in the business 
community, and show it is robust and flexible enough to run Scotland's 
most successful businesses, while reducing costs.

So: if you work for a company that uses Open Source Software to runs its 
infrastructure, or have products that run upon Open Source Platforms, or 
are a provider of solutions or support upon Open Source Platforms, 
please pass this email to your Sales/Marketing team, or CTO to see if 
they would like to sign up at http://www.opensourcescotland.org

The site was knocked together quickly at the end of last year, and is 
about to have a skin refresh, and the content expanded, so if you have a                                                                         
business-oriented outlook and would like to contribute content, news 
stories, or success stories, or if you have any questions, please feel 
free to eMail
Alastair Broom  <al at opensourcescotland.org>
or
Kevin Campbell <kev at opensourcescotland.org>

Thanks.
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Alastair Broom         Valley Technology Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
abroom at valleyt.co.uk
al at opensourcescotland.org