£270,000 million blimey, that's a lot!!! Typo me thinks.
S
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It's just been pointed out to me that the OSC response was posted the next
day
http://www.itpro.co.uk/603678/open-source-group-slams-education-body-becta
Steve
On 17/06/2008, Steve Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 17/06/2008, David Colven <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK
> education in > IT Pro magazine.
>
>
> on Page 3
>
> 'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the
> opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use
> and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the
> hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future
> development of open source solutions, which provide both better value
> for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the
> classroom.'
>
> The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta
> dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n
> outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown
> to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot
> of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid
> under the leader ship of the Learning Machine and it's to everyone's
> credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open
> Source in education is still of prime importance
>
> For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512
> 554721730323
>
> or
>
> http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>
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