The Trust have to base all their decisions on the needs of UK licence fee payers, first and foremost.
But yes, a global internet, that challenges lots of assumptions that previously were not even explicity. Why not write to them and tell 'em - seriously ,it's their job to hear views from people who pay the licence fee. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/ PS There are 100,000 of pages in welsh, gaelic etc. on bbc.co.uk BTW... and there will be a welsh version of iPlayer.... In fact one of the coolest hidden gems of the BBC is bbc.co.uk/vocab , which could very easily be adapted for polish just by adding dictionary... This is one of the apps I'd personally like to Open Source... or offer as an API... On 18/04/07, Richard P Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Tom, By making it UK centric, isn't the BBC missing the public values of an awful lot of us that no longer inhabit that island all year? Or are there pages written in Polish etc, just to please the total UK population..... I wish the Trust would accept BBC internet presence for what it is, a part of the World-Wide Web. (Not sarcastic, as I am a firm believer that I am English wherever I happen to be, especially as a UK tax payer.) Regards RichE On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:30, Tom Loosemore wrote: On 18/04/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >Outside of the framework debate... > > > >The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors. > >Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your interest form > >is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking part in the trial, go > >to http://bbc.co.uk/archive now. > > > Many thanks for your time - unfortunately due to the specifications > of this trial, we are not currently aiming to recruit past or present > BBC staff. > > !!! yep, and quite right too, if the BBC Trust's decision making is not just impartial but seen to be impartial. Allowing BBC staff past or present to join put the latter at risk, since the data from this trial will form the core empirical input into the BBC Trust's Public Value Test on the Open Archive (which is separate from iPlayer 'catch up' Public Value Test, the decision on which is due soonish. That's why they need so much personal data, to make sure the sample is balanced across a whole series of dimensions to reflect the UK population as a whole (hence UK only) We're also gonna release 50 hours for download by anyone in the UK, whether on the trial or not. - oh, and it's all non-DRM'd, albeit geo-IP'd
