Re: [Fsfe-uk] Membership

[David Casal]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, MJ Ray wrote:

> Indeed. See http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/ for the details in their own
> words. I need to update the information about AFFS's role, as it's got
> buried somewhere along the way.

That looks good, and I can see the inclusion of 'colleges' as something
I'll be able to mention to JISC.

> Hopefully it could, as I don't think the aims are restricted to just
> pre-16 education in any way. One of the suggested problems to solve is
> the insane number of databases and portals that are currently out there
> already, often using their own nomenclature and classifications.

The JISC service is supposed to help solve that as well. In this way, I
can see how syndication of news, as well as just trying to reduce
duplication of efforts, should be the main focus.

> > Do people think the membership/voting thread is mature enough now for me
> > to say that 'the AFFS is working towards enlarging their membership to
> > include people and organisations involved in education', or even 'OSAS
> > would work within existing efforts to get people within educational
> > institutions actively involved in AFFS activity?'
>
> I think the first statement is definitely true. Now AFFSAC is over, there
> are three main things we're currently working on: Education, Software
> Patents and enlargements.

Should I focus on the establishment of AFFSEN, or do people think EdSIG is
better thing to talk about? (if the EdSIG is supposed to be run by AFFSEN,
then I can talk about the possibility of both, right?)

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