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

[Simon Ward]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:01:16PM +0100, Iain Roberts wrote:

> Last year we wrote an Early Day Motion (a petition only MPs can sign) which 
> was submitted by John Pugh MP and signed by 130 MPs.  The petition read 
> 
> "That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, 
> colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to 
> deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own 
> institutions but also the wider community; and expresses concern that Becta 
> and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of outdated 
> purchasing frameworks, are effectively denying schools the option of 
> benefiting from both free and open source software and the value and 
> experience small and medium ICT companies could bring to the schools market."
> 
> It might be worth seeing if your MP was one of the signatories:
> http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752

I contacted my MP, Gerald Kaufmann, about EDM179 and he subsequently
signed it.  It’s worth contacting him again.

I don’t know enough about the current provisioning issue to be able to
even comment on it, let alone formulate a letter.  Can someone give some
links?

Simon
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