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On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 03:35:55PM +0100, james kilty wrote: > > > Sent to Devon county council (there is a link on their website to send > > electronically). There seems to be links on most Council site > > I meant more personally - your local councillor, MP etc. And a fuller > paper on the consequences of the current status quo as it blunders on. > The web approach is a bit anonymous and too much like a black hole for > me. If someone were to write a digest, or refer me to such already > published, perhaps expanding on what you wrote, I am happy to lobby CCC > members, especially given it is absorbing the Districts in a couple of > years. However, a time of change is likely to be too demanding to adopt > any other change - nevertleless, it is also an opportunity. Being a bit cynical I am expecting that the response from the FoI request is going to be along the following lines - No, we have not reviewed - No, we are not planning to review I was not planning to contact the local district council until I had the DCC response I think moving on from there, I agree with you we need to move forward and various options open themselves - We could use the FoI in our local councils to demand public knowledge of numbers of computers / numbers of licenses, and then use the data to prepare our own "business case" - We could use the data to start our own "inform the councillors" campaign to ensure that they are aware of the savings possible. If all members on the LUG started writing / ringing their local councillors.. - We could feed the data produced into the local MPs, press, opposition parties When Bristol did their review in 2005 they estimated that switching over to OpenOffice 1.x was £600,000. Vs £1.7m if they upgraded with MS. Now these figures are going to change, but it shows that with management will significant savings are possible. -- Henry Sun Oct 14 08:19:18 BST 2007
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