Simon >From: Simon P Smith <simon.sm...@askitsdone.co.uk> >Subject: Re: [Dorset] OT: Cabinet Office Ditches Open Standards in IT >To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk >Message-ID: <4efafa16.6000...@askitsdone.co.uk> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>The withdrawal of PPN 3/11 is a scandal! >I was using it to try and get some non-M$ products into a government >project - looks like that particular prop to my case has been well and >truly kicked out :( Are you willing to supply some more info about this because as far as I know HMG still want to use Open Source? For example I am organizing a series of internal HM Government events for Senior Civil servants on Open Source as Chair of the BCS Open Source SG (OSSG). The first of which will take place in February 2012. Therefore your experience sounds like it would be of interest to the HMG staff I am dealing with setting up these events. In other words they want to know examples about barriers to adoption of Open Source by HMG. Just for the record I've looked at this recent statement about Open Standards and feel its more about getting the statement bullet proof as opposed to actually dropping intention to make greater use of (Free and) Open Source. Mark Elkins -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, second Tuesday 2012-01-10 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
