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The OSA is a volunteer organisation and we can always use more help, both in specialist areas (research, graphics design and media relations, for example) and more general help.  Whether you can give the odd hour here and there or devote more time, get in touch (iain.roberts (at) opensourceconsortium.org) and we'll get you involved.

Software, particularly Moodle, being used by the OU and others

You can read about the OU's innovative use of FLOSS and about
the lukewarm support from the DfES here:

http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=789

There is a Wikipedia entry for Moodle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

Becta and its frameworks

There is a Wikipedia entry on this topic;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becta

This ZDNet article, referred to in the Wikipedia entry sets out
the issues for FLOSS very clearly

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39256053,00.htm