Re: [seul-edu] (FWD) Red Hat Proposes Alternative to Microsoft settlement

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

I would also like to pledge full support of OSEF to this project.  We
have experince working within the public school system, in Tucson,
dealing with Linux on the desktop in K-5 (and K-8 other places).  Due to
some slip ups of our lawyer (soon to be replaced...), we don't have our
501c3 yet, but should shortly.

		Harry

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Doug Loss wrote:

> SteelHead wrote:
> >
> > I am alreading starting a discussion with Red Hat on this
> > and I would like to know what comments or concerns any of
> > you might like to add.  This being the Thanksgiving Weekend
> > here, I will be in my office working on it only
> > sporadically.   I will post the text of my message here
> > before sending it to Red hat.
> >
> Sorry I'm getting in on the end of this discussion thread; I've been out
> of town for a few days.  I know there are (or were) some folks from
> RedHat on this list--if you're still around, could you let the folks at
> RedHat know of our interest in working with them on this?
>
> I don't know if RH did this just to count some publicity coup or if
> they're serious about this sort of school outreach.  If they are, I
> think we should offer up whatever services we can to their effort.  As
> Bill said, it might be nice if other distro manufacturers got involved
> too.  We know that both Mandrake and SuSE have strong interests in the
> educational field.  They might be persuaded to join a Linux educational
> coalition if approached by RedHat (or if necessary perhaps we could work
> as a neutral go-between to mitigate any "turf war" feelings).
>
> We have resources that I think could be quite useful in this effort.  I
> noticed in the comments to the posting on LinuxToday about the RedHat
> counterproposal that a few people talked about getting local LUGs
> involved as school support teams.  This goes very nicely with our
> occasionally-stated but never acted-upon goal of developing school
> support material for LUGs to use.  I think that now is a very important
> time to work on that.
>
> I'd like to get some discussion from the list (including those of you
> who don't participate much--we need as many points of view as we can
> get!) about how LUG support of schools is best accomplished and what
> shortcomings need to be watched out for.  Once we have that worked out
> we should develop a list of documentation and possibly other resources
> that we can provide to LUGs to help them be more effective in their
> school support.  With that list in hand, we can work on creating the
> parts needed to further this push.
>
> But we need to get on the stick _now_, while the idea is in the front of
> the Linux community's consciousness.  If we let it go, it'll be
> forgotten, I'm afraid.  So let's hear from you!
>
> Doug Loss
> drloss@home.com
>

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