The Carriageworks, Leeds TODAY at 3:30pm
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Helen Whitehead
I've already blogged about this on reachfurther.com :) Happy to join you as an evangelist, as always.
There must be a few of us with material for case studies. How about everyone jots down some notes and then a writer volunteer can knock them into something concrete?
Sorry I can't be there this afternoon. Have a great meeting
Helen
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Michael Sparks
Unfortunately I can't make it (I'm double booked), but thought I'd jump in.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:01:48 Neil Warnock wrote:
> FYI a statement was issued by the Gov't on tuesday in support of open
> source. Not the first time it's been endorsed but this looks serious.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
Indeed it's not the first time, but from my mind, this isn't just any one
party now. All 3 major parties have now endorsed open source repeatedly and
publicly in a variety statements. Lib dems have been doing so for a while.
David Cameron did the same thing at a Nesta talk last year, and now the
government. John Pugh is a relatively local MP (Southport) who's been very
supportive of open source now for a number of years.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/feb/24/opensource-internet
>
> http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-government-to-save-600m-with-open-s
> ource-255
>
> Expect a "useless unsecure crap" backlash campaign from Microsoft,
> Oracle, SAP et al.
> We need to be ready to deal with the FUD factor they create, by
> dispelling the myths surrounding business open source and illustrating
> with case studies.
In the spirit of case studies the following may be useful to people:
Presentation given at Linux World a couple of years ago:
"Open Source at the BBC - when, why, why not and how"
http://www.slideshare.net/kamaelian/open-source-at-the-bbc-when-why-why-not-how
Text version/post talk transcript:
http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1162045468
Crucially the talk doesn't really just cover open source at the BBC, but more
the arguments that I've found effective in the various types of places I've
worked (at a university, software development house, and BBC).
The simplest ones boil down to "would you avoid a proprietary product simply
because a competitor of theirs told you it was insecure?" vs "would you avoid
an open source product simply because a competitor of theirs told you it was
insecure?"
It's worth thinking about really: would Oracle get away with claiming
Microsoft's software was less secure than theirs ? or vice versa?
Michael.
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