Re: Unified Front... [was Re: [seul-edu] M$ Audits (shortened)]

["Stephen C. Daukas" <stephen@daukas.com>]

At 12:31 PM 4/24/2002, Tom wrote:
>On Wednesday 24 April 2002 08:46, Doug Loss wrote:
> > "Stephen C. Daukas" wrote:
> > > Imagine a School Board meeting considering the motion of "going
> > > Linux".
>
>Hi:  Is this a "first step" consideration, i.e., raise the motion of
>investigating at a School Board Meeting?  Or, is there an earlier process
>that leads to this step?

In my experience, this is NOT the first step.  Typically, there is a lot of 
work done to present a solution to someone/group/whatever, that will say 
yes and allow something like this to go forward.  I admit, this is what I 
have been driving the conversation towards - getting to a point beyond 
"hey, what about this" to "here is a coherent solution" that is defensible...

The model I had in mind when I wrote the School Board analogy was a recent 
School Board meeting (following a Board of Selectmen meeting by a few days) 
regarding a Child Identification program (CHIP) that the Massachusetts 
Freemasons, Chief of Police Association, and Massachusetts Dental 
Association puts on.  A lot of work was done in advance to get to the final 
approval stage, but there had to be approval at some point before the event 
could take place...

Steve