[ubuntu-uk] Public library OS choice

[Muñiz Piniella, Andrés]

El 11/06/2013 00:27, "Paul Sutton" <zleap at zleap.net> escribió:
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> On 10/06/13 23:25, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
> >
> >
> > El 10/06/2013 23:58, "Paul Sutton" <zleap at zleap.net
> > <mailto:zleap at zleap.net>> escribió:
> > >
> > > On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
> > > >
> > > > My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually
getting
> > > > bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are
> > > > going to install some new computers. I asked if there was a chance
of
> > > > it being a good chance of installing on those computers something
> > > > other than windows.
> > > >
> > > > The response I got was that the people's network was a government
> > > > funded initiative and that they where not given the option of
> > > > installing anything other windows.
> > > >
> > > > This is richmond upon Thames council. Is it the same for you?
> > > >
> > > > Anybody know about this?
> > > >
> > > > I was referred to the council info email.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is off at a slight tangent, but
> > >
> > > Any chance of getting some raspberry pis and some hdml input tv's etc
> > > and allow kids to do programming,
> > >
> > > in torbay we have tv's connected to consoles like xboxes.
> > >
> > > so why not raspberry pis
> >
> > >
> >
> > Agreed. But better yet, not spend any more money and install a decent
> > gnu/linux distro on the computers avaliable with scratch.
> >
> > So,
> > http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/about.html
> > Refers to an association called mla. Museums libraries and archives
> > that no longer exist on email contact or web page.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Try e-mailing postmaster@ or webmaster@
>
>

No need. Duckduckgo got me as far as here:

Seems it is non existant
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museums,_Libraries_and_Archives_Council

And the man to contact could well be:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bazalgette

Frankly seems to me that there is a vacuum since 2011 and that if a company
gives a good deal we could probably not have to forcefully use windows.
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