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[school-discuss] Re: [school-core] LessonForge started



I apologize for this, I was intending on putting out an announcement as 
soon as I could write one. This was my fault and I apologize. 


On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Douglas Loss wrote:

> First, an announcement; then a minor complaint.
> 
> There has been a discussion going on on the Open Source Now 
> mailing list sponsored by RedHat about open lesson plans licensed 
> in a manner similar to open source/free software.  That 
> discussion galvanized Matt Jezorek to start up LessonForge 
> <http://www.lessonforge.com/mailman/listinfo/lessonforge>.  It 
> looks like a very good idea, and I encourage all you teachers on 
> this list to take a look at the mailing list archives and see if 
> you can give them a hand.
> 
> Now the complaint.  We formed Schoolforge as a coalition of 
> groups working on getting open resources into education.  One of 
> the goals of the coalition is to make sure that the various 
> groups are kept aware of what the others are doing, so there's 
> not a needless duplication of efforts.  That means that when you 
> start talking about or working on something new you ought to 
> mention it here so people in other groups know about it and can 
> help out if they are interested.  Communication is the most 
> important thing here--this coalition won't work if we don't do this.
> 
> I try to mention the major things I pick up from other places, 
> but I"m only one person and I know I don't hear a lot of 
> interesting stuff that ought to be posted here.  So everyone, but 
> especially the representatives of Schoolforge member groups, if 
> you're involved in some interesting new discussion or new 
> initiative, tell us about it here!  If everyone's listening but 
> just a few are talking, we're all the poorer for it.
> 
> You representatives of member groups, please consider making a 
> regular post (weekly, biweekly, monthly, whatever works for you) 
> to the schoolforge-discuss mailing list about what your 
> organization is doing.  I promise, we'll all be interested, and 
> we may find unexpected common efforts that we can fruitfully 
> collaborate on!
> 
> 

-- 
Matt Jezorek 
Executive Director / Founder 
Blue Linux Group, Inc 
http://www.bluelinux.org 
matt@bluelinux.org 

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