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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:19:49PM +0000, tom wrote: > Well its happened at last ..... > > Someone has put in FOI request to Torbay Council asking for details > about which tools we use to power our website and where we use Open Source. > > Since they all know my interests at work, my bosses have been putting me > under the spotlight. Knowing how "political" any discussion of the use > of Open Source gets in TC I have always declined the temptation to do > this myself, although I am glad someone has because it puts Free / Open > Software back on the agenda. > > I would love to know who it is, although I understand IF it is someone > on this list ( and it may well not be ), why you might be want to remain > anonymous. > > Tom. > Tom I have had one exchange of letters with the CEO of DCC basically asking why there is no business case for NOT implementing opensource when evidence suggests that savings of between £600,000 and £2.3m are achievable. And at the top end the German Foreign Ministry saves about Eur 2000 per desktop per year (or about Eur 13.4m for a council the size of Devon). I will bring the full set of correspondence to the meet on Saturday, in case anyone is interested, or can use some data. I have not put in an FOI to Torbay but I have put in several to DCC: the latest was asking for details of the South West Consortium of Local Authorities Framework Agreement for supply of computer hardware and software PS I would appreciate it if the person who did put it in the FOI request could copy me on the results, as I could gladly use the data. -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Thu Mar 5 06:39:04 GMT 2009
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