[CS4HS] [Fwd: Re: [osia-members] Urgent / Important: Is "Computer Science" Science?]

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Good news, well done Donna :-)

Regards Roland

On 23 July 2012 08:00, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

> I suggested OSIA might want to submit something.
>
> It's late... but better late than never right?
>
> - D.
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au>
> Reply-to: osia-members at osia.com.au
> To: osia-members at osia.com.au
> Subject: Re: [osia-members] Urgent / Important: Is "Computer Science"
> Science?
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:01:20 +0930
>
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 08:37 +1000, Donna Benjamin wrote:
> > Jack, please reconsider. You SHOULD copy and paste that into a letter
>
> Donna (and everyone else who commented on this) will no doubt be pleased
> to hear that the OSIA Board has heeded your call.
>
> The Board, in a quick flurry of emails exchanged late on Friday night,
> agreed to lodge a late submission.
>
> Over the weekend, we have worked up a more formal & more comprehensive
> submission, based on the ideas in my post to the members list on
> Thursday night.
>
> The submission was lodged with ACARA at around 11:30 this evening
> (Adelaide time) and we can only hope and trust that they will consider
> it, notwithstanding the missed deadline.
>
> I've attached a copy of the OSIA submission to this post, and a copy
> will be uploaded to the OSIA website some time tomorrow.
>
> Thankyou to Donna, Andrew, Daniel, Don, Carl, Bob & Aimee Maree for your
> support (without which this simply wouldn't have happened).
>
> And a special thankyou to fellow OSIA Director Daniel Jitnah for giving
> up part of his weekend to help me develop my initial thoughts into a
> more robust OSIA submission.
>
> Now that OSIA is involved in the consultation process, I believe it will
> be crucial for us to lodge a further response when ACARA reaches Phase 3
> (which is to include the "Technologies" learning area).
>
> For those of you following ACARA's progress, please help the OSIA Board
> out by alerting us as soon as you notice the Phase 3 consultation period
> opening.
>
> When that time comes, it would be good to bring a group of interested
> OSIA members together to draft our Phase 3 submission collaboratively,
> with enough time to spare to allow for more thorough analysis &
> subsequent review.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> --
> Donna Benjamin - Executive Director
> Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au
> ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414
>
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