Hi Thanks for the update, Ian!
>Hi, > >Just back from a meeting hosted by Sun in Coventry UK aimed at getting >a unified strategy from those attending for dealing with FLOSS with UK >government education department (DfES) Other attendees included HP, >Schoolforge UK and BECTA who are the DfES's main agency for technology >development. I represented the OpenOffice.org community. :-) > >It went very well. BECTA do seem to have a changing attitude - >probably no choice now that FLOSS is gaining momentum at a rate >worldwide but we are making progress. We have I believe established >SchoolforgeUK as the collective voice for education with BECTA which >effectively means with the DfES. eg BECTA wrote the Secretary of >State's speech which said that we should be looking much more at the >savings possible using FLOSS. They will be publishing a Total Cost of >Ownership report towards the end of March that is likely to say that >the real savings are in hardware and support and that they are highly >significant. Great. This news is very welcome. I'm wondering how we can use it for other educational efforts. What comes to mind is tracking how they use OOo, etc., as well as using that TCO in presentations to schools elsewhere. Most places want to see how others did it, first. John McC also maintains a growing body of case studies, and I'm sure he's interested in this one (if he has not already caught it). > >So all good news for OOo marketing. > >More soon via the SchoolforgeUK website. Please :-) Best Louis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
