About that Email …

Phew!

Just when you thought I’d not shut up about the open source thing …

I get a reply or two from the councillors I emailled!!

I don’t know if you’ve been following this, but on Thursday I managed to email all of Brentwood councillors and our local MP, Eric Pickles, to ask whether they thought Brentwood Council should be using more open source software; you can read the text of that email, here. 

And so far, I’ve had a fairly good response, I think.

Councillor Joan Holmes immediately forwarded a copy of the email to Brentwood Council’s IT department, and let me, and everyone I’d emailed, know straight away.   On top of that, Councillor’s Michæl Golding, Linda Golding, and William Lloyd have all been in to Brentwood Council’s IT department, to bounce idea’s around.

I’ll be honest, I was also wondering if they’d also been there to ask someone what on earth I was talking about.

But it’s easy to be cynical about politicians.

I also had a reply to the open email I sent to the Brentwood and Ongar Liberal Democrats, and to Brentwood’s constituency Labour party, after not hearing from them.   But, as Brentwood West Councillor, Karen Chilvers, most councillors have full time jobs and families to deal, as well as having any other extra curricula activities to deal with.   Saying that, she’s also forwarded it to the IT department, and talked it over with Councillor Kendall, Brentwood Council’s Liberal Democrat leader.

I also had one back from Councillor Le-Surf`, one of only two of Labour councillors on Brentwood Council.

Which was the only one seemingly not too worried about following this up.   Although, given there’s only two Labour councillors …