Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: Lobbying UK govt

[Imran Ghory]

> 
> One way of entry to Parliament would be through the Parliamentary Select
> Committee for Science and Technology, who has the IT brief.

Another would be via MP's who are members of http://www.apig.org.uk/ (All
Party Internet Group) which helps inform MP's on the Internet and to a
lesser extent all IT issues.

Interestingly I notice on their website the statement "If you would like
to get involved in any APIG discussion forums or have issues that you
would like the group to discuss please contact the APIG
Administrative Secretariat", maybe we should see if we can get them to
host a disscussion on free software.

The membership of APIG is:

APIG Officers

Joint Chairman: - Derek Wyatt MP, Michael Fabricant MP
Joint Treasurers: - Richard Allan MP, Brian White MP
Group Secretary: - Nick Palmer MP

APIG Members

Bill O'Brien MP 
John Healey MP 
Sandra Gidley MP 
Bill Olner MP
Diana Organ MP 
Tony McWalter MP 
Mark Todd MP 
Lawrie Quinn MP 
Andrew Miller MP 
Andrew Reed MP 
Chris Mole MP 
Ian Stewart MP 
Mike Weir MP 
Paul Flynn MP 
Rudi Vis MP 
Ian Taylor MP 
Edward Davey MP 
Cheryl Gillian MP 
Doug Henderson MP 
Nigel Evans MP 
Mike Gapes MP
Tim Loughton MP 
Mark Tami MP 
Anne McIntosh MP 
Ian Liddell-Grainger MP 
Tim Boswell MP 
James Purnell MP 
Vincent Cable MP 
Fiona Mactaggart MP 
Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwell 
Jimmy Hood MP 
Lord Mitchell 
Robert Walter MP 
Joyce Quinn MP 
Sir George Young MP
 
I note that one of the members is Dr. Vincent Cable, one of only three MPs
who have talked about Linux during official proceedings (The others being
David Maclean and Charlotte Atkins).

Imran
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