[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
On 13/09/10 21:06, Tim Dobson wrote: > On 12/09/10 08:46, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> >> Birmingham city councils, that is ... >> >> http://www.ukwirednews.com/news.php/89458-32-000-a-day-for-council-website-as-26-000-face-job-cuts >> >> >> I'm sure it's not quite that - I'd suspect/hope that that was for a lot >> more of the ICT services in B'Ham, but even so - it's an awful lot of >> tax payers money to give to a private company! > > No. It's true. > > http://www.headstar.com/egblive/?p=256 > > What's more, when capita launched the site, it wasn't accessible or very > easy to use. > > @stef scraped the site and rebuilt it in RoR and then ran hackdays to > help make the website work for the people who wanted to use it. > > This is the Birmingham DiY website. > > http://www.bccdiy.com/ > > This is why I think we need sensible people networking and talking to > elected officials and civil servants and sensibly helping them > understand their options. :) > > Tim > We can cite the above as an example as to why this should be the case, We just need people who know what they are talking about to be willing to talk to the right people. Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq