Re: RedHat and education (was Re: [seul-edu] seul-edu posting guidelines / Introduction)

[Kerry Kim <kkim@redhat.com>]

Douglas Loss wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2001, Kerry Kim wrote:
> 
> > After all that talking, people here were
> > itching to do something.  So we've met with some local area
> > schools and
> > non-profit organizations and have begun soliciting donations
> > of computer
> > hardware, software, and services.  We've also committed to
> > demonstrating
> > a prototype "open source computer lab" at an educational
> > conference in October.
> 
> Great!  Which conference?  Maybe we can get some SEUL/edu people
> there for support.

The event is the 2001 Knowledge NOVA, held on 10/10/01 in Charlotte,
NC.  If there are people on this list that would like to attend, please
let me know.

> 
> > One of the short term things I hope we can do (with
> > all your
> > help) is do some homework on what open source K-12
> > applications are
> > available and install/demo these on this computer lab concept.
> 
> Take a look at the SEUL/edu software pages
> <http://www.seul.org:8080/wiki/edu/Software> or Les Richardson's
> database version of the same <http://richtech.ca/seul/>.  They
> list a few hundred educational apps.
> 

Thank you very much for the leads.  Give me some time this week to get
organized and I'm sure I'll have some more questions.

> >  Longer
> > term, I hope we can influence those application developers
> > that write
> > critical software, to make their applications available on
> > open source platforms.
> 
> We will be very happy to help in that effort.  In the meantime,
> you might consider helping some of the various free/open source
> projects that are working at developing such apps, too.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will ask the more knowledgeable
programmers here if they'd like to help with the projects.    

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