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Yourself as SF-UK chair and the work you have done in M6-IT related to Me with school development planning, migration strategy and installing etc.. Just need short CVs from supporting companies and players. Research methods is something else that I can support through a Masters Maybe if anyone on the list that has an interest in being listed as a > > > Primary schools have perhaps the most to gain from cost savings and community. > > You have to start somewhere. I'm not saying we ignore secondary schools, > TheINGOTS are very important to this bid, but I feel we should not > Hmmm.... please following this timeline covering the past 6-8 weeks... > 1) The Tory party received a briefing paper on FOSS. > There is a win-win potential here... Ian You have received this email from the following company: The Learning > Looking at the tender, I had better read it :-)
> the key factor is the quality of the Yes, the services I was outlining are all things that need consultant
> consultants, followed by the research methodology. The other 40% is
> probably noise. If you are reading services as consultants and
> development then I agree.
with a track record in FOSS eg
environment, social inclusion with Nottingham schools.
and maintaining infrastructure.
in Education Management etc. Remember SF-UK presented a research paper
in 2006 to BECTA linking FOSS to government projects. Probably there are
others with at least some research background. I could co-opt Birmingham
Uni Comp Science department as I still have some contacts there.
Possibly the OpenAdvantage people as they came from UCE.
consultant or researcher e-mails me a short CV focussed on
qualifications and open source knowledge/experience I can put a
consultants list together.
> > > > My first thoughts are to concentrate on Web based resources to See below. The main issue for primary is to get some new open source
> > > > support primary schools. (This would solve a lot of technical support
> > > > issues and make migration from proprietary to FOSS easier)
> > > Would the lack of secondary emphasis compromise a tender?
> > just that if we want some tangible learning resources quickly to show
> > that the project has an immediate impact in the classroom it's probably
> > easier to do something on the lines of the Ottos_club type resources.
> > www.theingots.org/Ottos_club.
> neglect the secondary sector - especially in the tender. Use of words
> is very important - if we make our KPIs mainly from the primary
> sector, then fine, but the bid should cover the whole sector.
resources into schools quickly. In the end it's about pupils and
learning so symbolically we need something quick.
> > > > The publicity from the BECTA involvement is Agreed, there is certainly a political dimension here. Also makes life
> > > > probably as valuable in getting confidence and the message out as the
> > > > money.
> 2) Cameron makes his speech - timed to prevent the Labour party
> responding rapidly, because of the rules about making announcements
> before elections.
> 3) The day _after_ the local elections, this tender is published.
> 4) The period of the project is set to run until just after the
> expected date for the general election.
easier for BECTA if we are working together rather than against each
other.
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