Welcome to the Open Schools Alliance
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| The Government spends a fortune and ignores its own
| research
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| The DfES and Becta ignore their own research that
| Open Source Software can save schools between 24%
| and 44% on ICT and advise schools to buy through
| eLearning Credits and procurement frameworks thato
| ffer virtually no Open Source Software.
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http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/
There's also the Consortium: http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/
I received an E-mail this morning. 49 MP's are now supporting the move to
Open Source software in schools (and colleges/academia).
Related:
Short OSS Primer for your MP/Representative
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| After the recent post about an Early Day Motion on this very site.
| I wrote to my MP.
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| Please remember it's purpose was to ask my MP to support a motion he
| was unaware of. Not provide a full grounding in the big wide,
| sometimes disparate world of OSS.
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| A Short Open Source Software Primer
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| (sample letter for reuse)
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http://technocrat.net/d/2006/11/30/11582
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