Re: EDUML, the Launchpad, and Timeframes

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Douglas Ort wrote:
> 
> ++  The goal of each project must be identified with simplicity and clarity.
> 
> ++  One person needs to take responsibility for overseeing both the progress
> of a project and asking others for help with specific tasks.
> 
> ++  The subject line for all requests for assistence on the seul-edu list
> (and others) ought to contain the project name and something of a help
> marker.
> 
> ++  Weekly summaries can be posted to the list as well as appropriate web
> site.
> 
Wil and I (mostly Wil) have worked up a projects page to do the first
two; the rest should be the responsibility of the project leader.
> 
> Doug Loss, you seem to have a central role in all this.  You have technical
> knowledge I don't have, and you seem able to connect with all of the
> different efforts to help people problem-solve and keep focus.  Well, I'd
> say that's your job.
> 
Thanks for the kind words.  I see my role here (in addition to having to
help on at least one project; thi, I'm still waiting for my copy of "The
Diamond Age" to arrive) as that of "noodge."  That's a Yiddish word
which means someone who is always over your shoulder making suggestions
and observations about your work.  The closest English equivalent is
probably "busybody."  I'm trying to keep the focus on getting Linux more
widely used in education.  That means identifying Linux applications
that already exist and are being or could be used in education,
advocating ports of existing commercial educational software to Linux,
designing and creating educational applications for Linux in areas where
none currently exist (that's our recent focus on this list), encouraging
schools to setup Linux test systems and labs, and helping to answer
questions educational users of Linux may have.

Wil, Roger, and Micah have talked about us making a concerted effort to
discover more existing educational applications for Linux.  Wil, will
you take the lead on this?  I suggest that you have people contact you
privately with any info they have rather than posting it to the list. 
But do as you think best.

-- 
Doug Loss                 It is impossible to imagine Goethe
Data Network Coordinator  or Beethoven being good at billiards
Bloomsburg University     or golf.
dloss@bloomu.edu                H. L. Mencken