” When Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli agreed to deliver a seminar on
‘Open Source in Government’ to parliamentary staff members and
representatives of local government in the United Kingdom earlier
this month, he planned to introduce his audience to some basic
concepts. However, when he got there, he found that most of the
audience was already familiar with the concepts. As a result,
instead of educating people in public life, he may have done more
than he hoped–he may have helped to create an ongoing forum in
which the free and open source software (FOSS) communities,
political lobbyists, and members of the governing Labour Party and
the opposition Conservative Party can work together to promote the
use of FOSS in the governments of the United Kingdom.“The seminar was held on December 1 at Portcullis House, an
office and conference complex for British Members of Parliament and
their staff…”
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