Re: [school-core] Donate link?

[jtime <jriddiough@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some thoughts -

Michael Viron wrote:

> You may want to confer with Roger Dingledine (arma) before you make a 
> decision to see whether or not this is allowable.
>  

Good point.  I'll check with Roger.

The feedback has been promising, and I would like to take a second to 
outline some of the ideas that are motivating me.

 * The recent news of Scott McNealy delivering a paper to President 
Obama in an attempt to make a case for more utilization of Open Source 
use in government.  As many here know, Scott McNealy is one of the 
founders of Curriki.org which promotes and delivers open educational 
resources under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license by default

I see this as a positive development that could bring more attention to 
resources such as SchoolForge.  Especially so when it seems plausible 
that many would go to google "open source educational software" to learn 
more about the subject.

* A well and newly developed Drupal site would provide vertical 
opportunities.  For example, a site similar to SchoolForge but focused 
on medical and health software.  I've registered vitalforge.com / org 
some time ago with the thinking that a new theme and some verbiage 
changes on top of the website platform would make this relatively 
straight forward

* What has held me back other than the standards (time & money.)  I 
think part of it is that I feel someone with more in depth knowledge of 
the subject area, be it in education or health (as in the example given 
with VitalForge,) would be more fit to handle aspects of the operations 
side of things.

Beyond all of this, I've been actively developing Drupal sites for the 
last couple years and know far more than I did when I was just starting 
to learn it.  (Using SchoolForge.net as my classroom ;)

Thats the current batch of ideas I've been mulling over.  Any thoughts?

Justin Riddiough