[oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)

On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven at ace-centre.org.uk> wrote:

It's just been pointed out to me that the OSC response was posted the next day

http://www.itpro.co.uk/603678/open-source-group-slams-education-body-becta

Steve

On 17/06/2008, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven at ace-centre.org.uk> wrote:
>  >  A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK education in
>  >  IT Pro magazine.
>
>
> on Page 3
>
>  'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the
>  opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use
>  and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the
>  hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future
>  development of open source solutions, which provide both better value
>  for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the
>  classroom.'
>
>  The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta
>  dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n
>  outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown
>  to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot
>  of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid
>  under the leader ship of the Learning Machine  and it's to everyone's
>  credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open
>  Source in education is still of prime importance
>
>  For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
>  http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512554721730323
>
>  or
>
>  http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>
>  --
>  Steve Lee
>
> --
>  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>


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