On 05/02/07, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/02/07, Benjamin Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/02/07, gord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:44 +0000, Benjamin Webb wrote: > > > > It seems as if schools in France will be distributing Open Source > > > > Software - > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707. > > > > Its a shame that our government isn't trying to do anything like this. > > > > > > > > > > and they won't unless we keep up the offensive :) try writing to your MP > > > benjamin i think most of us have had positive experiences doing that. > > > > > > > I have written once to my MP, about the Early Day Motion. He seemed > > fairly supportive of Free Software, but couldn't sign the Motion > > because of his position. > > Because of his position?????? it's because of his position you wrote > to him. Actually, I think we should all have a note of the names and > addresses of the MPs of everyone on the forum. > Then when any of us write to our MP we pass on the word then everyone > on the forum also sends a letter- Some years ago stage designers did > this every time there was a review of a show that didn't mention the > designer- the papers soon got the message and now you never see a > review without the designer mentioned in great detail. The trouble > with MPs is that they are ambitious and do not want to stand out from > the crowd unless they have a lot to gain from a very popular cause. > > This issue about education is very important to all tax payers- we > should be extremely persistent- Maybe the question to the MPs is 'are > you in favour of unnecessary and wasteful expenditure in our schools?' > > Caroline (lsp)
"Unfortunately, as I am a Private Parliamentary Secretary to a Home Office Minister, I am not able to sign EDMs but I will draw it to the attention of colleagues who are able to do so." So not that negative, but unfortunate. The list of names idea is a good one. Hopefully that way we can co-ordinate efforts. However, this is just the ubuntu-uk community, what about people using other types of Linux. Is there any general effort/web page/community supporting Linux/Open Source in the UK? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
