Open Source back on the big P political agenda I see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm
What interests me much more than the open source aspect is the cap on project size, enforcing smaller pieces (if you can call £100m small) which would then have to be interoperable to do all the stuff big government IT projects have to do. This rings some bells. I've been thinking (but not writng) about this a lot in relation to petitions recently. I think that we should set an open standard for interoperability between public sector petitioning sites, so that a petition sent to No10, that should in fact go to your council can be sent over with the press of a button, even if the petitioning systems are made by different vendors. This small pieces loosely joined stuff might be frickin' obvious to you codery type, but if we could just smuggle an example into government it could be great. best, Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
