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RE: [school-discuss] Updated Coalition Procedures - Members sign up here
I originally posted this on Monday night, and have not
yet seen a response regarding my inquiries below. Can someone please
provide clarification on the points below?
Thank you,
Michael
Viron
President
& CEO, General Education Online, A Schoolforge Founding
Member
President
& CEO, International Education Resources, A General Education Online
Organization
In the email, you mention "To define a new members list, I
am requesting a response to this message, sharing the name of the project
contact, project, and URL. " This information was already requested
as part of the original questionaires sent out August 14th, 2006, so it seems to
be redundant to ask for the same information again for those projects who have
already responded both to the original request (the questionaire of August
14th), and the "update" request sent out November
24th.
Do organizations who have already provided this information
via the questionaire also need to provide a response to this message?
Also, will Schoolforge membership continue to be open for non-software producing
entities who are providing "free / open resources"?
Thank you,
Michael
Viron
President
& CEO, General Education Online, A Schoolforge Founding
Member
President
& CEO, International Education Resources, A General Education Online
Organization
The intent of asking for information here is to ensure that members have
had an opportunity to review the updated procedures, and for clarity as to what
the source of the members list will be.
On 12/4/06, Michael
Viron <mviron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
All,
I must
again mention something regarding the narrow definition of "FLOSS" on the
website which seems to indicate that "free / open resources" are not
welcome as members of schoolforge. This is in direct contradiction to
the founding principles which allowed for those projects that provide
web-based open resources which may or may not include providing a copy of the
underlying "software" that powers the site.
Also, this
email also mentions providing information to define a "new members list",
which I thought was the purpose of the original questionaire sent out on
August 14th. The request also seems to conflict with the other message
entitled "Member Responses" which also asks for similar information, and with
the email of November 24th (asking for members to review the information
originally provided).
Can you
please clarify the intent of asking for information on the projects under this
email also?
Thank
you,
Michael
Viron
President
& CEO, General Education Online, A Schoolforge Founding
Member
President
& CEO, International Education Resources, A General Education Online
Organization
An important aspect of this update is aligning SchoolForge with efforts
at Schoolforge-UK, through embracing the definition of FLOSS (
http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/FLOSS ) that has served them
well as they have clearly established themselves as the grass roots
organisation to deal with over using Free/Open Source Software in schools and
colleges.
A couple comments..
"Management of the coalition website itself will be the responsibility of
one of the member groups, which might be its contribution to the
coalition."
For this, I will eventually get
http://visioninit.com going as a member group that
focuses on assisting FLOSS projects on user interface, graphics design,
technical and promotional aspects. For now, I'm going to
focus on SchoolForge and getting the systems in place there.
To define a new members list, I am requesting a response to this message,
sharing the name of the project contact, project, and URL. (To share
more details or to discuss various project efforts, please use the thread
entitled "Member responses" (which should have been titled questionnaire
responses))
Thanks,
Justin