Andy wrote: > On 11/03/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have an ideas how we should go about this? > > An idea came to me while watching TV. > Channel 5 have this thing called "Your News"[1], maybe we should > contact them, might not make it in time for anything about Hardy's > release but might be able to organise something for the release after > that. > >> Is our current >> growth rate acceptable/sustainable or should we be pushing for increased >> growth rates? > > More is good. > > > One of the main problems is the public sector are locked against us. > Many of the government agencies require the public to use .doc files > if you want to fill out stuff online[2], and there is the lack of > anything non Microsoft in education :( >
Or a very small amount of anything non-Microsoft in education - for instance the handful of schools running Karoshi, Moodle, LTSP or things along those lines. I'd say it's probably a small percentage at the moment. > We need to somehow combat the public sectors insistence that we use Windows. > We are not even on a level playing field here. FSFE don't appear to > have do much. I asked them about the BBCs windows only software and > they said it wasn't a priority. The UK is under-represented. > Might be worth e-mailing the Open Source Consortium about it, they seem to be interested in doing things - just look at the big stink they quite rightly kicked up about the iPlayer. What gets me is that they're supporting the iPod Touch & iPhone before Linux!!! Surely there's more Linux & Mac users out there than iPhone/iPod Touch users. > Oh well. There's a fair few of us doing different bits and pieces, although sometimes it can be disheartening that the word isn't getting across. :-( > [1] http://www.fivetvonline.tv/your-news.php > [2] http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/data_protection.aspx I'll have a look at the links later, maybe the Five News idea might be a good one. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
