Dear GKD Members, In the mid 80s bitter struggle between the coal-miners and Conservative Government in the UK a friend, active in the solidarity capmaign, (er, for the miners) was describing a weekend of action in pit-villages to a group of College lecturers. Sensing from one sneering response that he could be in for a long, tedious 'back to basics' argument he said, "and I eat lentils too", in an attempt to quickly confirm the questioners suspicions that he belonged to an alien belief system. Meat eating progressives kept their heads down in London in those days, but they weren't all creationists.
At WSIS 03 there was an excellent debate about FOSS, more polemical than evidence based. I haven't been able to find yet a similar meeting in the WSIS 05 programme. It would be good to try and arrange a time when programmes like AVOIR could present their findings to an audience that could also hear the evidence that Richard Heeks refers to from a rather depressing (to those of us who are more advocate than academic) FOSS session at the DSA meeting this year. Any suggestions? Pete Cranston Senior Advisor OneWorld UK 2nd Floor, River House 143/145 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3AB UK tel: +44 (0)20 7239 1400 fax: +44 (0)20 7833 3347 ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
