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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Memb
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Simon Ward |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage] |
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Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:27:18 +0100 |
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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 and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of outdated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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- [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Richard Smedley, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Noah Slater, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Finn Lewis, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Iain Roberts, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Noah Slater, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision, Iain Roberts, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Paul Waring, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage], Iain Roberts, 2007/10/12
- Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mcr MS IT schools provision -- [Fwd: Re: [OSA-Members] ZDnet frontpage],
Simon Ward <=