[ossig] the uk open source consortium

[Raja Iskandar Shah <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

the uk open source consortium : http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/about/index.html

is this something similar to what we wanted to do sometime back ?

any interest in reviving that back and creating an affiliate with the above ?



>
>   About OSC
>
>
>     What is the OSC?
>
> The Open Source Consortium has been formed to represent the Open 
> Source business community in the UK.
>
> We are a not-for-profit organisation which guarantees the quality of 
> open source deployments in the public sector by setting professional 
> standards <http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/about/quality.html> and 
> bonding its members 
> <http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/about/insurance.html>.
>
>
>     Our purpose?
>
>     * To do business with the UK government and public sector.
>     * To engage in a two-way conversation with the UK Government and
>       Public Sector, representing the views of the emerging industry
>       around F/L/OSS.
>
>
>     How do we act?
>
>     * As an 'Internal Market' for F/L/OSS services (Strategic
>       Consultancy, Deployment Consultancy, Training, Support). A
>       public sector body can submit a project that we can put out for
>       internal tender and introduce that body to those members who
>       wish to tender against each other for the project. This saves
>       them from having to find those companies themselves.
>     * In 'Mini-Consortium' mode. Several OSC members can act together
>       to tender for medium-sized public sector projects. Combining
>       areas of expertise to field a bigger team than any of them can
>       do on their own.
>     * In OSC, or 'Full-Consortium' mode. The OSC will tender for the
>       largest projects as the OSC. Drawing from the combined resources
>       of almost every F/L/OSS business in the UK, the OSC represents
>       the single largest deployment force of F/L/OSS professionals in
>       Europe.
>
>
>     Who do we partner with?
>
> The OSC already has formal relationships with a number of players in 
> the governmental/public sector field, including:
>
>     * The Open Standards Alliance <http://www.openstandardsalliance.org>
>     * The Open Source Software Institute <http://www.oss-institute.org/>


---
[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude AntiVirus]


---------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my
with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message