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Quoting Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>: Hi Henry, > 1/ As far as I am concerned what is more important than licensing is > that the Devon County Council look carefully at what IT systems > they have and make appropriate choices to cut costs and improve > service. While I do not believe that Opensource is the answer to > every solution and proprietary software will continue to have its > role; I believe that opensource should be the default model for > public money. I agree entirely. > 2/ I have not run a PR campaign but comments in > http://www.writetothem.com/about-guidelines make a lot of sense to me. I've just read them and they do make sense. What I'm trying (and have been threatening for months now!) to put together is a site that is a resource of information that can be used as templates for people to help parliament/local govt/schools/others see the benefits of opensource. This would include leaflets produced by LUGs/LoCos for different events (SFD, LUG Meets, Install Days etc), letters that have been written to organisations, booklets that are released under CC/GFDL etc. and would provide a central repository of Distribution-agnostic literature to promote FLOSS. I was hoping that I might be able to include your letter as part of it. > 3/ The point of my letter was to ensure that the key decision makers > were aware that opensource is not "mickey mouse / hacker / teenage > kids" (insert your negative epithet) toy but a real tool > increasingly used by local governments around the world. Even the > Conservative Party seems to have twigged that opensource works. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm Hmmm, I'll let you know about this one, I recieved the conservative press release yesterday via email and am waiting for 5 minutes free time to read it. The report is yet to be published. > 4/ Given that the DCC is encouraging people to write to it on > suggestions on how to spend money, and given that local council > elections are due to take place on 04 Jun 09; then I feel the people > should contact their representatives suggesting a switch to > opensource. But in their own words and with their own, reasoned, > arguments. That's fair enough, I'm looking for ways to help people in the direction of writing well-structured letters/leflets by example. Kind regards, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html