Becta have put out an invitation to tender to a School Open Source Project.
"Becta wishes to ensure that schools are aware of and can access the
wide variety of open source software in the marketplace. To achieve
this it recognises that they must be supported in its awareness,
adoption, deployment, use and ongoing development. In order to aid
this we are commissioning a project to:
1. Support a sustainable and significant community of schools who use
and develop open source products by April 2010; and
2. Provide schools specific content development on open source
implementations. "
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This follows a similar project by JISC in FE and HE and needless to say the schoolforge.org.uk comunity are getting excited and are discussing how to make the most of this.
Keywords: Becta, education, Open Source