FOSS documentary on BBC World
Darren Jones
"A two-part documentary, 'The Code Breakers' will be aired on BBC World
TV starting on 10 May 2006. Code Breakers investigates how poor
countries are using FOSS applications for development, and includes
stories and interviews from around the world." The first part is
screening tonight on BBC World."
Chris Puttick
cover stories of relevance to, well, the whole world, but not from BBC
UK who, well, don't...
Is this because we in the UK are not very interested in the same
things as the majority of the world? Answers on a postcard to "BBC
Click" and cc'd to the BBC UK news editors!
More seriously, I really don't understand the people at the above
referenced programme, ostensibly "the BBC's flagship technology
lifestyle show"; they managed to do a whole world tour and somehow
missed all the myriad places that are doing computers the open source
way, manage to reference forthcoming MS products more or less weekly,
yet have not even mentioned Linux since May 05 and then only in the
online feedback!
Time for an orchestrated response?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/3593880.stm
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Chris
On 5/10/06, Antony Gelberg <ant...@wayforth.co.uk> wrote:
> How interesting. We (Wayforth) are hoping that we can help build and
> ride the wave if FLOSS enters public conciousness, and the BBC is
> certainly public. I'll certainly be watching and recording it, thanks
> for the link.
>
> >
>
Steve Lee
>ride the wave if FLOSS enters public conciousness, and the BBC is
>certainly public.
Indeed and they are supporting various open educational initiatives
with their content, though previous actions resulted in the e-Credits
which are effectively blocking FLOSS in education. Some of our members
are working with BECTa to resolve this issue.
The Open University's Open Content Initiative (http://oci.open.ac.uk)
including their takeup and contribution to Moodle will also raise
public profile for FLOSS in education.
Steve