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

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

now that would be usefull ;-)
270K more like.

Steve

On 17/06/2008, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
> £270,000 million blimey, that's a lot!!! Typo me thinks.
>
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> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
>  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:58 PM
>  To: colven at ace-centre.org.uk; OATs Project Special Interest Group
>  Subject: Re: [oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)
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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
>  >
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