WARP Newsletter 4 - December 2006

WARPLOG Issue 4 - Christmas 2006

Welcome to a special (very short) Christmas issue.
This is by way of consolation and reassurance that you haven’t been dropped from the NISCC Xmas Card list – we are not sending them this year. I’m sure it is something to do with saving the planet, or some other good corporate reason. Please accept our seasonal greetings nonetheless, and thanks for all your support this year.

The main purpose of this is to encourage you all to visit the newly-launched new-look website, www.warp.gov.uk which I hope you will find greatly improved and altogether more pleasing to the eye and the brain. It has the long-awaited introductory section for WARP virgins now, as well as a re-designed Toolbox for WARP specialists. Feedback very welcome.

You MUST however visit the Toolbox Homepage http://www.warp.gov.uk/home.htm (and if you’re on a very slow link, please be patient), to see the new ‘How to build a WARP’ animation. Wallace and Gromit watch out!

There are a number of WARP Registration applications in the pipeline, and it is now looking very promising for the North East WARPs to be revived very soon in the New Year, so if you’re in that region, hang in there through the hard Winter and your IT will be secure once more, very soon. Some other WARPs are going through inevitable changes, and I hope to have more news of those soon.

The new Multi-WARP FWA 4.2 is in the final round of test-and-improve and should be released just after Xmas, where it will appear as v5.0 due to the major re-write of much of the code, though the interfaces will remain fairly stable.

Government sector readers may well have spotted the front cover story in this month’s Government Computing magazine. This was quite unprompted by us, and is most welcome and very useful. We hope to put it in the Articles section of the website http://www.warp.gov.uk/Index/indexarticles.htm very soon with Kable’s and the author’s permission, so that you can all have a full colour print to hang on your wall and impress people, if you haven’t got your own copy already.

Finally, don’t forget to be ready to book your place for the Annual WARPs Forum on 13 March 2007 at Leeds Town Hall. There will be some very significant topics announced and debated there, and a programme of international speakers and some exciting workshops are already planned, but there is still room in the programme for your requests/suggestions/offers.

Invitations will be sent to all Newsletter subscribers,so encourage your colleagues to sign up by sending a blank e-mail to

Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you all.

Peter B
Head of Information Sharing, NISCC

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