RE: [seul-edu] Getting started: Forming a coalition to promote freeand open toolsand content in education

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@cfl.rr.com>]

Sure, I'll work on trying to get the ideas put together. For the moment,
I'll post everything to a Wiki page on seul. Check out
http://www.seul.org:8080/wiki/edu/Education%20Coalition.
jason

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Jason Mellen
Palm Bay High School
Webmaster / TSA / PTV / NHS
Department Assistant - Vocational Education


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Doug Loss
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:41 PM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Getting started: Forming a coalition to promote
> freeand open toolsand content in education
>
>
> Michael Hall wrote:
>
> > I wonder if anyone has the time/energy/organisational ability to sum up
> > where we're at right now? What proposals are on the table?
> >
>
> Organizational ability, I have.  Energy, maybe.  But time, that
> looks unlikely for the
> next few weeks.  David?
>
> As for proposals, one of the first and easiest is the
> modification of the SEUL/edu
> links page to use as a standard page for all Linux in education
> sites to link to.
> Mick, could you, Roman Suzi, and Les Richardson work on this?
> Roman currently
> maintains the page, and Les has done some nice work for us on the
> software database
> and case studies (and more importantly, has agreed to do some
> more).  Addresses are
> admin@openlearningcommunity.org, rnd@onego.ru, and
> richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca.  If you guys
> come up with a plan let us know and we'll put it in place.  I
> trust all of you to do
> it right.
>
> Another is the accumulation of links to all the various arguments
> for free and open
> source in education that David mentioned.  David, could you do
> that?  We can all mail
> the links to you when we come across them, and you can keep track
> of them, or we can
> send them to oss@members.iteachnet.org if you prefer.
>
> These are of course not the central tasks.
>
> >
> > And while you're at it ... What do we do
> > next, what are the core tasks to be done, in what order? How
> are we going
> > to organise ourselves? Who wants to work on what? :-)
> >
>
> Jason Mellen, might you have the time to do the distillation that
> Mick talks about
> above and below?  Just get all the points down in one place--then
> we can combine them,
> discard them, prioritize them, whatever, and get moving.
>
> >
> > David B has got some good points, in one order, others have other points
> > in other orders, it would be good to somehow distill this down to as
> > simple a set of options as we can as a basis for moving on.
>
> --
> Doug Loss                 Always do right.  This
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> dloss@bloomu.edu                Mark Twain
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