Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......
On 03/08/13 22:32, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: El 03/08/2013 22:08, James Kemp james+ubuntu...@somebody.org.uk mailto:james%2bubuntu...@somebody.org.uk So the landscape is changing, albeit by waiting for the big long term contracts to run out. Hi James, Sounds like good news. Any clues on what is happening with libraries? Check out @PeterBazalgette's Tweet: https://twitter.com/PeterBazalgette/status/344422386008997889 He seems up for the change and there seems to be a void. My local library is getting an 'uplift' and it would be great if it was not completely windows. Libraries are a local authority run, so will vary a lot across the country. Each local authority will take its own look at the recommendations from central government and then do their own thing. That said, local councillors are usually easier to approach than MPs and have a more direct level of influence on what the council does than MPs have over central government. So it is well worth lobbying your local councillor. You ought to be able to find out who they are and how to contact them on your local council's website. NB depending on where you live there may be more than one tier of local government, and you need to lobby the one that has control of the library to have any hope of a positive impact. -- James Kemp see Alexander at http://www.ajkemp.org/gallery/ or my games at http://www.full-moon.info/ free science fiction ebooks https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jameskemp -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......
On 01/08/13 09:13, Jon Spriggs wrote: Just bear in mind while you're not wrong about it only going to a handful of vendors, you've got the names wrong when it comes to IT. HP (was EDS), IBM, Computacentre, Fujitsu, Capita, CapGemini Until very recently this was true. The prequalification questions on any major procurement through the Official Journal of the EU basically ruled out anyone other than the big boys. And we paid for it by the lorryload of money. However the Government Digital Service (the people behind Gov.UK) are leading a revolution that is putting most of the new IT contracts into the hands of SMEs through the G-Cloud framework. They're also making us redesign all the public facing transactional services using agile methodology to make them user centred and rapidly improved. So the landscape is changing, albeit by waiting for the big long term contracts to run out. Disclosure: I'm an enterprise architect in a government agency and directly responsible for engaging with GDS on our digital delivery. I'm also trying to get our desktop replacement to be open source software on a linux base. -- James Kemp see Alexander at http://www.ajkemp.org/gallery/ or my games at http://www.full-moon.info/ free science fiction ebooks https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jameskemp -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Opening CorelDraw CDR Files
I've got a couple of CDR files that I want to convert to SVG for use in inkscape. Does anyone know how I might go about doing that without having either CorelDraw or windows available? Thanks. -- James Kemp Sent from my HTC Hero-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
