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Re: [LUG] motion to council/lor/s



All this info is looking a bit peicemeal. But i think I get the idea.

Now somewhere knocking about is a goverment white paper that details further the criteria by software should be chosen. It was on the SW LUG site with a news article. But the one I'm talking about is 6 months ago.

However this might be of interest

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26335.html]


Cheers Rick


Adrian Midgley wrote:


That for reasons of ethical principle, national policy, EC policy, and pragmatic factors of cost reliability and absence of enforced change, it isd
esirable that wherever possible software used in the functions of local authorities and their agencies is chose from software whose source code isp
ublished under one of the Open licences.


That to pursue this, in every procurement of software consideration should be given and documented to Open Source solutions as well as to proprietary ones.


Needs work, perhaps.
Needs a briefing to go with it.
Needs a web page to define all terms briefly and with pointers to the fullv
ersions, but printable as a starter.
Needs a corps of individuals who are able to demonstrate persisting skillsi
n identifying, installing, maintaining and supporting OSS on a commercialb
asis organised into or available to sub-contract through, stable companiesi
n the relevant region.
Needs one or more company able to be the umbrella for a council-sized bid to provide and integrate software, train users, operate 16-24*365 helpdesk etc.


Needs people to speak directly to their councillor, getting across in no more than 5 minutes the essential ideas and starting very very basic, then answering questions as need be.

Looking around, all of this exists, and some is to hand - it does need osmeo
rganising and then some action.



-- Regards and Best wishes

Rick Timmis
rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I.T Manager

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