Doug, Perhaps if the focus of the list has changed then the description on http://www.schoolforge.net/news.php should be changed from what it is now to something that more describes its current function. Right now the blurb states "The SEUL/edu mailing list focuses on the usage of Linux in education, but is often open to discussion about usage of other open source operating systems in schools, as well as networking open source systems with legacy non-open source solutions." and the schoolforge-discuss is only described as "The schoolforge-discuss mailing list is dedicated to Schoolforge discussion." Also the Seul/Edu home page http://seul.org/edu/ reads that the function of seul-edu is "SEUL/edu is the discussion group for those interested in using Linux for education. This covers all aspects of educational uses of Linux, by teachers, parents, and students." Perhaps that also should be changed to reflect that seul-edu covers technical discussion of the various seul-edu projects and those that really want to discuss Linux in education should subscribe to school-discuss. Warm Regards, Jonathan Hughes http://linuxineducation.org On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 06:48, Doug Loss wrote: > Gerben Dierick wrote: > > > > I believe this wave of unsubscribers is caused by the increase in traffic om the > > list. There have been a lot of mails about the (very useful) iso-project the > > last weeks, which may annoy people. I think it's a shame we're loosing these > > subscribers, so maybe it should be considered to decrease the amount of traffic, > > or to create a seperate list or something. On the other hand, the messages about > > the iso project are clearly labeled in the subject, and can easily be filtered. > > > I suspect you're partly right about the reason for the recent > unsubscriptions. But I think another part of it is a misperception on > people's parts about the nature of this mailing list. When we started > it over four years ago, it was the only place to talk about using Linux > and other open source/free resources in education. Since then, many > other websites/mailing lists/forums have been created to address this > area, often because the creators weren't aware of any existing places to > carry on such discussions. About a year ago we joined with as many of > these organizations as we could persuade to do so in creating > Schoolforge <http://schoolforge.net>. The Schoolforge coalition is > intended as a place for people associated with all the various different > groups to be able to meet and exchange information and encouragement on > what they're doing to further the use of open resources in education. > > Because we wanted Schoolforge to be a success, the various groups agreed > to cede some of their functions to the coalition as a whole. Since > SEUL/edu's seul-edu mailing list was the premier (yes, I'm bragging just > a bit) venue for discussing Linux in education, we decided to redirect > all general discussion on Linux in education to the schoolforge-discuss > mailing list and to use the seul-edu mailing list primarily for topics > directly relating to ongoing SEUL/edu projects. > > So as things now stand, the seul-edu mailing list is properly for the > discussion of the ISO project, the casestudies, and maintenance of the > App Index. Of course, as we take on other projects this will be the > place for discussing those too. For general discussion about using and > advocating open resources in education, schoolforge-discuss is the > preferred venue. That's both because we want Schoolforge to have a > useful function and because discussion there gets the attention of all > the other member organizations (we hope). -- Jonathan Hughes <declaretruth@yahoo.com>
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