Re: [seul-edu] Re: Linux inservice day

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

IMHO trying to coordinate this kind of thing worldwide or even statewide
is problematic.  Go ahead and organize a "Day", but don't fix a date;
let every group who wants to join in do it on their own timetable.
That means the central organization should be a continuing resource
for those who want to organize a "Day" any time.
- Dan

David Bucknell wrote:
> 
> The Idea - I like the idea of a day very much and a deadline might help make
> it happen.
> 
> Name - I'd be interested in the education angle, so although I'd like to see
> a free Software Day -- something like an international get-out-the-vote day,
> only you set up install parties instead of voting booths -- but I'd also be
> for an Open Source in Education or Open Source for Schools Day.
> 
> Duration - A week might be better than a Day, so that people could adjust
> their schedules to put some event on.
> 
> Dates - I see July 3rd and Oct 5th as the dates Linus Torvalds posted the
> first two announcments about Linux (http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php).
> Both too soon ;-).
> 
> Remember when people were having those "wire a school" days? Maybe we could
> jump off from that format.
> 
> David
> 
>  Quoting Chris Shaw <chrisjshaw@compuserve.com>:
> 
> > I like the idea of having access to some shared material to help with
> > missionary work - I don't know anything like enough to do that myself.
> > Having a coordinated time to have a shot also sounds good.
> >
> > Titles are not everything, but words have associations and carry messages.
> > Often these things are different depending on the country / culture that
> > you
> > are in.  So here is my small contribution to thinking about the words you
> > choose from my (UK) point of view, sorry if it sounds like rubbish to you :
> >
> > Free = Cheap giveaway, usually not worth having, seedy salesmen.
> > Open Source = Not much, something technical and boring perhaps.
> >
> > I would have thought the kind of words we want should strike a chord with
> > folks in education who, I would say, are generally in the business of
> > working communally for the good of society.  I think words like Public,
> > Community & Shared might be good which could lead to titles like Community
> > Software Day, Public Software Day etc.
> >
> > Just a thought,
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Douglas S. Blank" <dblank@cs.brynmawr.edu>
> > To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 3:35 PM
> > Subject: [seul-edu] Re: Linux inservice day
> >
> >
> > >
> > > To bring the conversation back around to the inservice day, I had
> > > proposed an international "Open Source Day". Burkhard Woelfel then
> > > suggested a "hipper" (and "hippier") name: "Free Software Day".
> > >
> > > I did some further searching and found that Tony Stanco, founder of
> > > FreeDevelopers.net, had tried to get one together last October, but
> > > it didn't happen. He is still in support of the idea, though.
> > >
> > > I think the "day", whatever it be called, would be a good idea that
> > > wouldn't necessarily require a lot of organization, money, etc. If
> > > we just agreed on a day (or even week or month), then anyone that
> > > was planning to do such an inservice presentation could tie it into
> > > this.
> > >
> > > This would give us a common deadline with common goals, and we could
> > > all develop and share resources (slide shows, HOWTOs, resource
> > > links, etc) for putting on our own local presentations. Of course,
> > > we have a slant towards education, and our resources would reflect
> > > that, but others could join in with other emphasis if they wished.
> > >
> > > So, some things to consider:
> > >
> > > 1. Are you in favor of having such an "Open/Free Software" event?
> > >
> > > 2. What span of time should it cover: day, week, month? A single day
> > > might be too short, maybe a month is too long...
> > >
> > > 3. What would the name of it be? Open Source, Free Software, or
> > > something else? "Freedom of Software Week"?
> > >
> > > 4. What date(s)? It would be nice if there was an important day to
> > > celebrate, such as: the date of the birth of GNU, Linus's first
> > > post, RMS's birthday, etc. There is Feb 14 that is stamped on Tony
> > > Stanco's "The Declaration of Software Freedom", on-line at
> > > http://freedevelopers.net/freedomdec/index.php, but that is maybe
> > > too political, and Feb 14 has other celebrations (Valentine's Day
> > > here in the US).
> > >
> > > I don't necessarily want to bombard these lists on this topic if
> > > y'all aren't interested. So, let's do this: send me specific answers
> > > to these four questions, and I'll summarize in a week or so. Or, if
> > > you have general comments that everyone would be interested in, post
> > > them to the list so that we can discuss.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Doug
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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