Re: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge

["Matt Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org>]

This looks a good draft to me. If you dont mind make sure I get a copy I
would love to join
the coalition. Has the mission statement been finalized?

P.S. Blue Linux is about to make an announcement that we are going to drop
the secure os (to much replication),
        slack help, not enough interest, not needed  to focus only on the
BlueEDU Product.


Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>
BlueEDU Linux <http://bluelinux.org/>
Lead Developer / Project Admin / Founder
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----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:43 PM
Subject: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge


> This is a first draft of a letter of invitation to be sent to all
> prospective members of the Schoolforge coalition.  It would be nice to
> get as many members as possible in the initial announcement, so we can
> show ourselves to be a broad-based coalition rather than just a few
> groups seeming to want to assume the mantle of "Linux in education."
> Please critique it.
>
> Hello.  We know that you are working at furthering the use of Linux and
> free software in general [this may be replaced by "free resources" in
> the letter to non-software or advocacy projects such as open lesson
> plans, etc.].  We are members of groups with similar goals.  Up until
> now all of our individual projects have suffered from low visibility and
> the tendency to repeat work that others were already doing or had
> already done.
>
> When Red Hat Software made a counter-proposal to Microsoft's offer of
> settling an antitrust lawsuit by giving US$1 Billion to US schools, we
> were galvanized to try to take advantage of the sudden publicity this
> gave the use of free software in education.
>
> We started planning for a coalition of groups that were all working to
> make free software and resources more widely used in education.  You'll
> find a description of this coalition (called Schoolforge) below [insert
> David Bucknell's mission statement below].  We currently have numerous
> members, including Open Source Schools, SEUL/edu, and RedHat [I mention
> only these three because they probably have the highest name recognition
> at the moment].  We'd like to invite you to join the coalition and help
> us further our shared goals of providing free resources to our schools.
> To join Schoolforge, just reply to this message with the name of your
> group and the contact person.  We'll add you to the list.  If you'd like
> to take part in the discussions and work of forming Schoolforge, go to
> http://www.seul.org/edu/ and join the mailing list.  That's where all
> the organizational work is taking place.  We hope to welcome you on
> board!
>
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