John Pugh MP (libDem) has put down an Early Day Motion on FLOSS in schools. At least 19 MPs have already signed it. If you are UK based you can write to your MP and ask them to sign this motion and it will help raise the FLOSS issue up the agenda and contribute to marketing in general.
You can write to an MP by logging on to http://theyworkforyou.com/ Please circulate to any list where there is an interest in getting UK government to be more positively proactive with FLOSS. http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752&SESSION=885 EDM 179 SOFTWARE IN SCHOOLS 21.11.2006 Pugh, John 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the wider community; and expresses concern that Becta and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of outdated purchasing frameworks, are effectively denying schools the option of benefiting from both free and open source and the value and experience small and medium ICT companies could bring to the schools market. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
