Software Cooperative News

Last Thursday, I went to the Social Enterprise summit regional workshop that I mentioned. Apparently, SEC are hoping that ministers Mandelson, Purnell, Byrne and Blears will be at the summit, along with people from various famous co-ops.
I took along some email feedback I received on ’supporting new blood in social enterprise’ about needing help to [...]

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There is a Social Enterprise summit in London in May with cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thirdsector. As part of representing TTLLP to Cooperatives-SW, I will be at a regional workshop this afternoon “to enable the sector to input the summit”(?). More detail is available at tinyurl.com/cnm5c3
The workshop topics are

‘fighting the recession’;
’social enterprise informing a rebalanced economy’;
’supporting new [...]

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The UK Budget is out. I’m pretty disappointed for TTLLP – the headlines for business look rather unhelpful to our co-op.

It supports loss-making businesses – keeping our unsustainable competitors in business for longer,
it spreads business rate up-rating – which we pay through rent on the few places we pay it, probably no change overall,
it [...]

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Raphael Bauduin emailed me to say that he’s organising an event for Profoss: “(28 april in Brussels) will take a look at legal aspects of the use of FOSS in professional environments. http://www.profoss.eu/events
It will bring interesting information for most ICT professionals, even for those specialised in FOSS, but if this is not for you, it [...]

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Irma and Bob of CALYX information essentials wrote in:
“For those interested and not able to participate in the KohaCon 09 action in Plano.
Some conferees are Twittering: Cover it live or pipes.
Some are blogging
Some again are having their photo taken on flickr.
Presentations are starting to show up on slideshare tag kohacon09 and twitter #kohacon
It sounds like [...]

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