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• Chris Puttick wrote a new blog post: Big Society   1 hour, 12 minutes ago
  

  The words of the moment. But an old idea, something some people have been practising all their lives, a concept that is as old as thought. Giving is indeed better than receiving. And the best “gifts” in the Big Society concept is those that just keep on giving. The volunteers that pick up the litter [...]

• Chris Puttick wrote a new blog post: Risky software acquisition   1 month ago
  

  I learnt recently of the incredible power procurement officers in government have over purchases, even over purchases well outside their area of expertise. In many ways it explained the slow movement of the public sector towards open source, despite all open source software’s obvious benefits for and alignment with the public sector. It also helps [...]

• Chris Puttick and Haydn Maidment are now friends   1 month ago

• MJ Ray wrote a new blog post: Budget 2010: take 2 (IT, Co-ops and Community edition)   1 month, 1 week ago
  

  I’ve been watching the June budget and pondering its effects on me, our co-op, co-ops in general and the wider community.

  IT Taxes I just want to flag this one up as a special interest: the telephone tax is killed off before it starts. Yippee! But now we get to wait and see [...]

• Stephen Bathgate joined the group Ubuntu UK   1 month, 2 weeks ago

• Haydn Maidment wrote a new blog post: Getting “better for less” from the tender process   1 month, 3 weeks ago
  

  Today is the day of the Local Government Communications conference in Leeds, which is themed around the topic of “Better for less”, so I thought this would be an opportune moment for my first blog posting. Every member of the ocProducts team believes that the Open Source Software model is a perfect fit with this [...]

• Don Christie wrote on the wire of the group Public Sector Remix   2 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Hi Stephen
  That is certainly a topic that has been and is being explored. I am not sure about timing but I certainly hope we will be able to get agreement to publish more of our work soon.

• Don Christie wrote on their own wire:   2 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Why not help develop a FLOSS strategy for Wellington, New Zealand that we can share and share alike.
  More information here: http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2010/free-and-open-source-strategy-wellington

• Stephen Bathgate wrote on the wire of the group Public Sector Remix   3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  This is really exciting and I hope it has a positive outcome.
  Are there also proposals to enshrine open data standards into future IT strategies (eg open document format)?

• MJ Ray wrote a new blog post: Enemies of Digital Economy Workers: the TUC   4 months ago
  

  The Trade Union Congress’s chief executive recently came out in the crazy position of sharing a platform with the British Phonographic Industry (and why are they still relevant? What is the market share of phonographs now?) and supporting the much-hated Digital Britain guilty-without-trial “three strikes” disconnect measures.
  Yes, you read that right: the TUC’s chief exec [...]

• Gordon Dunlop updated the “Basic Information” information on their profile   4 months ago

• Fil Thurlow commented on the blog post Hello world - from my first blog post!   4 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  This ia an official approved reply to the above comment (Fil).

• Lashelle Inman updated the “Basic Information” information on their profile   5 months, 3 weeks ago

• Lashelle Inman wrote on the wire of the group Open Source CMS for Government   5 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Hi Robert,
  I was just wondering how you got on with your Open Source CMS Whitepaper - I’ve been asked to evaluate the pros & cons of using an open source CMS for our Council so if I can save re-inventing the wheel that would be ideal!

• Lashelle Inman joined the group Open Source CMS for Government   5 months, 3 weeks ago

• Ian Cuddy wrote on their own wire:   5 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  In light of a recent big increase in spam registrations, new users will only be to join the community if they’ve been approved - so if you’re a genuine users and trying to register, please bear with us, there’ll be a delay before you can log in. This isn’t the most ideal situation but [...]

• Ian Cuddy and Chris Puttick are now friends   5 months, 4 weeks ago

• Chris Puttick updated the “Additional Information” information on their profile   5 months, 4 weeks ago