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A recent article in the Guardian "CESG asserts security of open source software" contains the following:
"[A Cabinet Office official] said that simply considering open source alternatives helps improve competition, and mentioned that he encouraged a department to pilot open source LibreOffice as an alternative to upgrading its Microsoft software. This led to Microsoft providing the new software for free."
We're a bit surprised about that, so we've asked for more information .
As usual, your improvements and annotations are welcome
10 November 2011
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Decision to describe Open Source Advisory Panel as "established" |
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In May 2011 we made an FOI request about about the Open Source Advisory Panel (OSAP) - see also Evidence supplied to PASC by Minister for the Cabinet Office. Eventually we were advised:
Cabinet Office is in the process of redefining [the structure] so
that OSAP becomes an online forum
The Terms of Reference for the OSAP are in the process of being
drafted and will be available on the Open Forum Europe (OFE)
website [...] are exempt from disclosure under section 22(1) of the
FOI Act
No OSAP work plan has been agreed for next year
No meetings of OSAP have taken place
No advice has been provided to Government via OSAP
OSAP has not formally met
Today, looking at the OFE website it is difficult to understand how the
government ICT-SIP can describe the OSAP as being already "established" so we've asked for clarification.
As ever, your improvements and annotations are welcome
2 November 2011
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Terms of reference and activities of the Open Source Advisory Panel |
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Steps taken by DCLG to improve document interoperability |
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We've asked DCLG whether they've investigated the possibility of improving document interoperability by removing application specific features (See One Simple Thing).
Improvements and annotations welcome
18 May 2011
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Avoiding ICT lock-in costs in West Sussex |
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We've asked West Sussex County Council about the background to the decision to renew an existing ICT contract without tendering due to IP issues and what they are going to do to avoid that happening in the future.
Improvements and annotations welcome
Update
West Sussex provided a very helpful reply, thank you. Unfortunately for them it was so helpful it also included some dissenting metadata:
JL: 12months is incredibly optimistic if we had to change product sets across the 330 schools. I genuinely doubt we could deliver this.
Of course there's the other problem SIMS which is inescapable apparently
27 April 2011 updated 1 Jun 2011
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