(FWD) Re: [seul-edu] Fw: Red Hat Center (Refered by Joe Lacal)

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: karl <karl@newmedia.slc.edu>
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Fw: Red Hat Center (Refered by Joe Lacal)

Jen,

I learned about open-source/free-software while at liberal arts college,
and it played a key role in my educational process.

I am very interested in getting open source into more educational
institutions, and would love to hear more, or even attend the
conference in September.

I would love to do anything to help.

--Karl

NOVALUG
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> Very Interesting, I have been in contact with the RH Center for a bit
> now, and would be very interested in coming to this upcoming conference
> is there any more information?  Sura is planning, if we can get it off
> the ground an educational courseware portal relating to open source in
> education that might be of interest.  
> 
> Douglas Loss wrote:
> > 
> > Jen Horney from Red Hat Center sent this to me a little while
> > ago.  I'm reposting it here with her permission.  Could we get
> > some discussion on the ideas here?  Jen's on the seul-edu
> > mailing list, so she should see all the replies.
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jennifer Horney wrote:
> > 
> > > My name is Jen Horney and I work at Red Hat Center, the
> > foundation
> > > started by the founders of Red Hat Inc. to advance the cause
> > of open
> > > source in other areas - such as education, medical research,
> > etc.
> > >
> > > We met Jose Lacal at a conference at NYU this Spring on
> > Intellectual
> > > Property and I recently flew down to Ft. Lauderdale to meet
> > with him and
> > > talk some more about the benefits of open source in education.
> >  He
> > > suggested that I get in touch with you.  I have read you
> > postings on
> > > freshmeat.net, and had briefly discovered seul.org before, so
> > your name
> > > was familiar to me.
> > >
> > > We are trying to do a variety of things - gives grants and
> > host programs
> > > mostly - we are doing an education session on Captiol Hill in
> > September
> > > on open source in education and planning a rather large and
> > hopefully
> > > inclusive conference for next year that would bring together
> > the
> > > different communities working in open source - end users,
> > developers,
> > > businesses, and public policy folks to work on what happens to
> > open
> > > source as it moves more into the mainstream.  Jose is
> > hopefully going to
> > > come up and "testify" for us at the Senate Sessions.
> > >
> > > Anyway, Jose put me in touch with you and wondered if there
> > are ways
> > > that we might be able to work together.  Any thoughts about
> > any of
> > > this?  Anything that we can do for you or things that you
> > think we could
> > > be doing?  Sorry to be so up in the air, but we're just
> > getting started,
> > > and trying to make contact with some people.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Jen Horney
> > >
> > >
> > --
> > Doug Loss           The art of medicine consists of amusing the
> > dloss@suscom.net    patient while nature cures the disease.
> > (570) 326-3987             Voltaire
> 


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