BETT 2009 & BBC article
The OSC attended BETT 2009 (kindly invited to Open Forum Europe's "Open Source Precinct" stand) to speak to potential customers for OSC's members and to potential members of the OSC. BETT is a leading show for the use of technology in education.
Subsequently, the BBC published a long article (new page) by Andrew Miller asking several questions about Open Source in schools, and quoting Gerry Gavigan, the OSC's chairman. |
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UK COI update
The UK's COI (Central Office of Information) has issued Browser testing guideline TG117 [link (new page)] this January. It has been updated to substantially address the OSC's issues with their previous direction during public consultation.
Their guideline is "for all website managers, web developers and web testers delivering public sector websites..." and includes the following statement: "The guidance on minimum technical standards highlights the importance of developing websites to standards to ensure browser accessibility." The OSC welcomes this.
The OSC is specifically acknowledged in the new guidance.
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Coverage for OSC
The Inquirer has published an article by Mark Ballard about the OSC's letter to the OU on Office 2007, and The Register has an article by Kelly Fiveash about the OSC's letter to the BBC on Windows 7.
There has also been a general widening of the potential audience for DRM-free BBC material as reported by IT Pro Portal. |
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BBC and Windows 7 (continues)
The BBC Fair Trading Unit passed the OSC's complaint to the BBC News website, so the OSC has pointed out that the issue of governance is the responsibility of the Unit or, if it remains unwilling to handle the complaint, the BBC Trust itself.
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BBC and Windows 7
The OSC has started a complaint with the BBC's Fair Trading Unit that the BBC are yet again giving the appearance of advertising a Microsoft product (that, in this case, does not even yet exist).
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OU and MS Office 2007
The Chairman of the OSC, Gerry Gavigan, has written to Professor Brenda Gourley, the Vice Chancellor of the Open University to express disappointment that the OU is supporting an office suite that goes against so much of the tradition of the OU and to encourage the OU to consider implementing ICT policies that are closer to the original objectives of the University.
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