Good news, well done Donna :-)<div><br></div><div>Regards Roland<br><br><div name="sig_ef468b11ff" style="margin:0pt"></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 July 2012 08:00, Donna Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donna@cc.com.au" target="_blank">donna@cc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I suggested OSIA might want to submit something.<br>
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It's late... but better late than never right?<br>
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- D.<br>
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From: Jack Burton <<a href="mailto:jack@saosce.com.au">jack@saosce.com.au</a>><br>
Reply-to: <a href="mailto:osia-members@osia.com.au">osia-members@osia.com.au</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:osia-members@osia.com.au">osia-members@osia.com.au</a><br>
Subject: Re: [osia-members] Urgent / Important: Is "Computer Science"<br>
Science?<br>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:01:20 +0930<br>
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On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 08:37 +1000, Donna Benjamin wrote:<br>
> Jack, please reconsider. You SHOULD copy and paste that into a letter<br>
<br>
Donna (and everyone else who commented on this) will no doubt be pleased<br>
to hear that the OSIA Board has heeded your call.<br>
<br>
The Board, in a quick flurry of emails exchanged late on Friday night,<br>
agreed to lodge a late submission.<br>
<br>
Over the weekend, we have worked up a more formal & more comprehensive<br>
submission, based on the ideas in my post to the members list on<br>
Thursday night.<br>
<br>
The submission was lodged with ACARA at around 11:30 this evening<br>
(Adelaide time) and we can only hope and trust that they will consider<br>
it, notwithstanding the missed deadline.<br>
<br>
I've attached a copy of the OSIA submission to this post, and a copy<br>
will be uploaded to the OSIA website some time tomorrow.<br>
<br>
Thankyou to Donna, Andrew, Daniel, Don, Carl, Bob & Aimee Maree for your<br>
support (without which this simply wouldn't have happened).<br>
<br>
And a special thankyou to fellow OSIA Director Daniel Jitnah for giving<br>
up part of his weekend to help me develop my initial thoughts into a<br>
more robust OSIA submission.<br>
<br>
Now that OSIA is involved in the consultation process, I believe it will<br>
be crucial for us to lodge a further response when ACARA reaches Phase 3<br>
(which is to include the "Technologies" learning area).<br>
<br>
For those of you following ACARA's progress, please help the OSIA Board<br>
out by alerting us as soon as you notice the Phase 3 consultation period<br>
opening.<br>
<br>
When that time comes, it would be good to bring a group of interested<br>
OSIA members together to draft our Phase 3 submission collaboratively,<br>
with enough time to spare to allow for more thorough analysis &<br>
subsequent review.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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--<br>
Donna Benjamin - Executive Director<br>
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