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Linux IT brought in to get Bristol City Council’s open source strategy on track

Steve Woods Local IT News, National IT News, Open Source News 3 Comments »

Bristol City Council logoIt’s easy to be critical of Bristol City Council; any long-term resident will vouch for that. However, amongst British local authorities it has been a pioneer for its willingness to dip its toes into the waters of open source, although even here it has not had an easy time (news passim).

News emerges today on Channelweb.co.uk that the City Council has called in Linux IT to help to advise it on its “ambitious open source strategy” (any chance of finding out how ambitious? Perhaps someone from BCC would care to comment. Ed.) and is now involved in the project at a “strategic level”.

Read the original Channelweb.co.uk post.

3 Responses to Linux IT brought in to get Bristol City Council’s open source strategy on track

  1. Stephen Hilton October 8, 2011 at 12:54 pm #

    Woodsy, Linux IT were one of 3 companies we invited to join us at a meeting in Bristol with the Cabinet Office. The notes from this meeting are available here http://bristolfutures.posterous.com/

    • woodsy October 8, 2011 at 1:05 pm #

      Hi Stephen

      Many thanks for your comment and the link – much appreciated. I’ll get round to reading the notes when I’ve got less work on my plate. 🙂

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