Re: [seul-edu] Fanatical volunteers

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Here's one bright note, guys: I have been corresponding with the head of
networking for my city's school district concerning the MS audits. He is
getting disgusted with them and says he is now beginning to entertain the
possibility to migrate to Linux because of MS's licensing prices. So let's
keep that army of 1,000 fanatical volunteers on standby -- maybe someday all
of y'all can come do your thing here in New Orleans! (The free/open source
thing, not whatever else you may associate with my fair city.)
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:22 PM
Subject: [seul-edu] Fanatical volunteers


>On Wednesday 24 April 2002 02:41, paul Sutton wrote:
>
>>> How many fanatical volunteers can we
>>> put on the ground in Portland? How many of you are willing to go there
>>> for a week or two and help with the conversion? If we can mobilize 1000
>>> volunteers from across the country, the job would be done in a couple of
>>> weeks!
>
>>> I think we can pull off a miracle here. I think one school district
>>> should draw a line in the sand and tell Microsoft to go pound it. And if
>>> their conversion is a success, it will live on as a testament to
>>> democratic power, and as a wonderful test-bed for further educational
>>> free software development.
>
>>> --William
>
>> I'd love to help but I am from England, and funds don't permit, but best
of
>> luck,  perhaps something similar could happen in the UK,  if any other Uk
>> subscribers are interested.
>
>Ditto for Oz.
>
>If corporations can offer `fanatical' support, so can we. The kernel of
such a
>team is being thrown together here in WA, our first target being to do as
>much undermining as possible of the WA EdDept's blanket Microsoft
Enterprise
>Agreement.
>
>Cheers; Leon (from Perth, Western Australia)
>
>