[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: UK open source survey

Tyler Mitchell tylermitchell at shaw.ca
Tue May 2 10:12:32 PDT 2006


Anyone in UK interested/keen/zealous enough to help develop a relationship between OSGeo and this?

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From: Tyler Mitchell <tjm at timberline.ca>
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 8:54 am
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: UK open source survey

> FYI - From another list - may be worth putting some effort into...
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [NOSI discussion] UK open source survey
> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:47:01 +0100
> From: Simon Pavitt <simon at sheff2van.ca>
> Reply-To: simon at headware.co.uk
> To: nosi-discussion at nosi.net
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm aware that this list mainly contains people from the US, but I'm
> posting this in case there's any others from the UK, or any that are
> interested in UK initiatives.
> 
> The Open Source Hub is a new initiative which aims to help local
> community groups benefit from Free and Open Source software and help
> open source suppliers support the sector's growing use and 
> expectationsof technology.
> 
> It has been initiated by the National Computer Centre, who have been
> commissioned to build the use of open source software within the UK
> voluntary and community sector by the ICT Hub [www.icthub.org.uk],
> funded by the Government to improve the sector's ICT infrastructure.
> 
> In order to put together a snapshot of existing provision and support,
> it has initially put together a short set of questions which can be
> found at:
> [www.ncc.co.uk/research/projects/os_hub.cfm]
> 
> There are two separate survey forms, one for voluntary and community
> organisations and the other for suppliers and support agencies. The
> survey closes on Wed 10 May 2006.
> 
> For more information about the OS Hub please contact:
> [OSHub at ncc.co.uk]
> 
> If you need any more information about the survey please let me know.
> 
> Also, any pointers to equivalent US surveys would be useful for
> comparison as well.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Simon
> 
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