On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 17:00 +0100, jah wrote:
On 21/09/17 13:31, Jonke Suhr wrote:
I received a request to add Doteveryone [1] to our list of supporting
organizations for Public Code, however I'm not sure if they are truly an
NGO like the other organisations on our list.
They are a registered charity, however I'm not sure what that entails so
I wanted to ask if anyone who knows a lot about the UK could pitch in
with some information (I CC'd Daniel so maybe he can forward this mail).
More information about the charity can be found here:-
http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details?regid=1146972&subid=0
To quote last year's report:-
"Go ON UK is a partnership organisation and was formed by a number of
organisations from the business, charity and public
sectors who wished to work together, creating an effective national
alliance to ensure everyone has the Basic Digital Skills
they need."
jah
Short answer as Jah says above. They are a charity.
They have an online document which they shared publicly asking for contribution. I contributed to it saying that many of their issues might be reinventing the wheel.
I pointed them towards groups that are doing similar things such as consumers international, fsf, fsfe, and ORG (I think I forgot about public software). So basically, it was me who pointed them in fsfe direction.
I don't know what it implies to have their dot-everyone on the links page of fsfe but I feel that doteveryone should be consulting with fsfe and other charities to find out what is best for ethical tech.
I get the feeling that they have just started but probably will have strong influence in business in UK.