[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: UK open source survey

Tyler Mitchell tjm at timberline.ca
Fri May 5 09:44:05 PDT 2006


Sounds good Mike, thanks.  I haven't really looked at what it involves
or is about in any depth.

Tyler

Mike Saunt wrote:
> Tyler
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> I'd be happy to look into this next week...
> 
> Cheers
> Mike
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca] 
> Sent: 02 May 2006 18:13
> To: discuss at mail.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: UK open source survey
> 
> Anyone in UK interested/keen/zealous enough to help develop a relationship
> between OSGeo and this?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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