Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage]

[Paul Waring]

Noah Slater wrote:
> Perhaps we could all contact the counillor for our area (me excluded
> as I'm not a resident) and someone should formally contact
> Manchester's MP as a representative of our organisation.

Manchester has lots of MPs (depending on how you define 'Manchester', 
but I can name five or six off the top of my head), and most will want 
you to be a constituent in their area in order to reply to 
letters/emails/faxes.

I don't think any of the major parties have a particular policy on open 
source (Tories might like it because it offers a cut to budgets though) 
and I bet they all use Windows in their HQs, but as it's not a big 
manifesto issue each MP can probably make up their own mind about their 
stance without feeling party pressure, so it may be easier to convince 
them that open source is a good way forward.

Paul