[Fwd: Re: [school-core] First real administrative decision]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

owner-schoolforge-core@schoolforge.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [school-core] First real administrative decision
> From: Jason <jason@openfarm.org>
> To: schoolforge-core@schoolforge.net
>
> Frankly I don't see innerpeace.org as having anything to do with Open
> Source software promotion, schools or anything useful. I have been
> monitoring many new age groups and these guys seem like flaky self
> absorbed navel gazers. What is needed is strong political action to
> prevent proprietary software from ruining school budgets, children's
> minds, and education generally. These people are anti-political seeing
> anything challenging or confrontational as being "negativity",
> "anti-harmonious" and losing them from the mailing list is completely
> fine by me. That's my two cents.
>
> Jason Loughead
> Vice-President
> PLUG
> Prairie Linux User Group
> http://www.openfarm.org
>
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:42, Matt Jezorek wrote:
> > I agree with contacting them but have you actually looked at the product they
> > have? I have questions about it like how much is it for education? It seems
> > like self-help software but not based for free resources in education. Now I
> > might be wrong but innerpeace.org does not seem like a software project for the
> > extension of free software in education, it is a free software project. But I
> > really dont see how it fits into the schoolforge design anyways. But yes email
> > them if you feel it fits and find out whats going on, now dont wait forever for
> > a response if you dont get a response in a day or so then go ahead and take it
> > as a withdrawl from schoolforge.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>
> > Blue Linux <http://bluelinux.org/>
> > Lead Developer / Project Admin / Founder
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> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > "jerryc," the representative from InnerPeace.Org, has just
> > > unsubscribed from both the schoolforge-discuss and the
> > > schoolforge-core mailing lists.  According to our operating
> > > procedures, each member group must have a representative subscribed
> > > to at least the schoolforge-core mailing list.  Should we view this
> > > as a de facto withdrawal from membership by InnerPeace.Org?  If so,
> > > what should we do about it?
> > >
> > > My suggestion is that we contact InnerPeace.Org and ask if it is
> > > their intent to withdraw from Schoolforge, or if they're just
> > > changing representatives.  If they intend to withdraw, we should
> > > remove their record from the members database.  If they're linked to
> > > from any of our resources pages (I don't believe they are), we
> > > should probably leave those links in place so long as they're
> > > helpful to our goal of furthering the use of open resources in
> > > education.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Doug Loss                 All I want is a warm bed
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> > > Bloomsburg University     unlimited power.
> > > dloss@bloomu.edu                Ashleigh Brilliant
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Open Education for the Mind

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Doug Loss                 All I want is a warm bed
Data Network Coordinator  and a kind word and
Bloomsburg University     unlimited power.
dloss@bloomu.edu                Ashleigh Brilliant