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

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

£270,000 million blimey, that's a lot!!! Typo me thinks.

S 

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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/b512
> 554721730323
>
>  or
>
>  http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>
>  --
>  Steve Lee
>
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>  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
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