Re: [school-core] Affero's concept

[mikee <meschman@engima.com>]

hello,

this makes perfect sense.

mike eschman, etc...
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On Friday 07 June 2002 02:03 pm, you wrote:
> Just so we can continue the discussion on this, I'd like to say
> something about where financial support would be very useful.
>
> About a year or so ago we realized at SEUL/edu that we were talking
> to people who already understood and agreed with our positions, but
> we weren't reaching people outside that group who we needed to
> convince.  What we (and all of us here, actually) need to do is to
> present the case for free and open resources in education to the
> _educational_ community, not to each other.  To do that, we need to
> attend educational conferences as exhibitors.
>
> Unfortunately, that's not nearly as easy to do as it is to attend
> Linux conferences.  The educational community expects to be marketed
> to, but not to be approached by grass-roots organizations.  For that
> reason, exhibitor space at its conferences is ofter prohibitively
> expensive, precluding participation by any except corporations.
> That's a self-fulfilling prophecy situation, but there it is.  Any
> funds we could generate should (I think) go toward having a presence
> at various technology in education conferences around the world.
> That would include exhibitor fees, lodging and travel expenses for
> participants, etc.  These things would require not insubstantial
> amounts of money, but would have the greatest potential for
> broadening the reach of our message.
>
> Outside of finding some well-to-do and generous sponsors, I think
> the Affero donation method may be the best way we have of generating
> the funds for such things as this.