Re: [school-discuss] Schoolforge Journal Pre-Announcement

[Paul Tietjens <paul.tietjens@moriarty.k12.nm.us>]

I have a giant mass of in-house documentation on our public school
district's move from a 1500 node, 9 site Windows NT/Exchange/Outlook WAN
to a Samba+LDAP/Postfix+Courier/Thunderbird SuperWAN. ;)

I'll start making it human-readable.

David Bucknell wrote:

> Dear Schoolforge Discuss Members,
>
> The following is by way of Doug Loss's proposal for Schoolforge. I know I am not
> alone in thinking he, Roger, Felipe and Les and the rest of the team have done
> an incredible job with SEUL/EDU and I am looking forward to working with them on
> Schoolforge. Doug's messages brought the following from the back to the front of
> my mind. I hope you will all join us in this project to make Schoolforge come
> alive. Here goes.
>
> Open Source Schools began as a zine for Open Source in education and then
> morphed into a zine for publishing news for Schoolforge members. I have two
> issues to discuss with you, the Schoolforge Webzine and the Schoolforge
> Journal.
>
> First, the Webzine: I try to post good stuff posted to this list, but would like
> to request that members also take the initiative to post to
> http://news.schoolforge.net
> (http://opensourceschools.org also works.) If everyone participated, it would go
> a long way toward fulfilling the need for a replacement for Doug's "Linux in
> Education" report, IMHO.
>
> Secondly, I would like to revive the journal for 2004, this time in a
> slightly different form. 
> I will write up a more detailed how-to for those wishing to post, but here are
> the initial ideas: There will be two kinds of articles, 1.) unsolicited
> articles on the writers' chosen topics (welcome any time) and 2.) articles
> written in response following (proposed) list. I'd be interested in your
> comments and suggestions:
>
>
> The Schoolforge Journal 2004
>
> Three Sections:
>
> I.   *Favorite Apps*
> II.  *Beyond Software*
> III. *FEATURES*
>
>
> March: Making the transition to FLOSS: File Sharing, Firewalls and Back Office
>
> April: Making the transition to FLOSS: The Web
>
> May: Making the transition to FLOSS: The Desktop
>
> September: Going all the way: Making the transition to FLOSS: File Sharing,
> Firewalls
>
> October: Going all the Way: The Web
>
> November: Going all the Way: The Desktop
>
> I wanted to put in a section on Open Source Texts, but, realistically, I think
> that may have to wait until this time 2005.
>
> Comments and Suggestions?
>
> I will write specific people whom I know to be writers as well as tinkerers, but
> I invite you to speak up if you're interested. If you have experience with
> free-open source, then you have something worth saying.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Sincerely,
> David
>