Re: [school-discuss] Linuxastronomy.org

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

hello,

this is IT until tomorrow morning, but this deserves a response.

if linuxastronomy.org is a member of schoolforge, then i want to help them.

right now i think i can help in two ways.

1 - i will fix all the broken english and mail it back to whatever e-mail is 
appropriate ? 

2 - you need to begin writing a specification for the telescope itself.  if it 
gets born on paper first, then odds are better money and materials will come 
to make that paper dream a real thing.  you must have an image of this thing 
in use.  i see people all over the world sharing their sky with us?  a 
network of telescopes?  the first prototype has this sort of a part list?

stare down that blank sheet of paper.  the first question a serious funder 
will ask is for this parts list.  

mike eschmam, etc ...
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On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:26 am, Doug Loss wrote:
> Some of you may remember "pixo," Eugene Clement, who used to work
> for Mandrakesoft.  I hadn't heard from him in quite a while.  H
> just sent me a message telling me about his new personal project,
>   <http://linuxastronomy.org>.  He says:
>
> "The goal is to built a remote controlled telescope accessible
> from the internet.
>
> "It run on linux of course. Meanwhile, users are free to use what
> ever they like, I do not like to force people to switch from Ms,
> Apple, etc. products to linux, I let them free to first observe
> what we are doing, later, they will probably end up with a
> machine running linux at home, or at work.
>
> "I invite you to take a look at it. the "volunteers page", has a
> lot of pictures, to give you an idea of what we do.  The
> teenagers are also proud to have a homepage on it.  I let the
> ones that help on the project, to have a web page. Not all of
> them, did one yet.
>
> "I realize the site has a lot of broken english. I struggle for
> help on the pages.  I have some very good helpers, that are doing
> a fine job in their spare time, but it is far to be done."
>
> I think this is a very interesting project, and one well worth
> supporting.  Please take a look at it and give Eugene and his
> crew whatever encouragement you can.

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