RE: [school-discuss] Progress: Approaching 100 Members

["Mervyn, Jason" <JMervyn@wps.odeDoDEA.edu>]

Mr. Bucknell,

I wouldn't consider myself a true "member" - I work for the Dept. of Defense
Education Activity (parent organization for the U.S. military school
system).  DoDEA is firmly in the Microsoft camp, and I sincerely doubt that
it will wake up even after the MS licenses start wasting vast amounts of
money that should be spent on other IT projects.

However, as a beginner Linux user, please consider me a supporter since I'm
interested in the growth of Linux in schools.  I have donated many PC's
during my time working in the Government, and was disgusted by the recent MS
policies' use against schools.  I also have had to work far too extensively
with Chancery's WinSchool to be happy with it, and am particularly
interested in MySQL alternatives.

Sincerely,

Jason H. Mervyn
Computer Specialist
NY & VA DDESS
jmervyn@wps.odedodea.edu
(845) 938-5276


-----Original Message-----
From: David Bucknell [mailto:david@members.iteachnet.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:45 AM
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
Subject: [school-discuss] Progress: Approaching 100 Members

Dear Schoolforge Members and Supporters,

I have just been looking over the membership list and would like your help
in
consolidating it as we approach 100 members. We need to know who's really a
member (still) and who's missing, and we need everyone's details. It would
help
if everyone put the name of the country in which their project/org works
within
their member description. You can send it to me if you like.

Here's what the members' list says right now (check it out on
http://schoolforge.net/members.php).

We have 92 members by my count. Time to sift and make sure of who our
members
are as we count down to the century mark:

***countries:
Lithuania, US, ATCnet (Africa), Australia, India, Turkey, Ukraine, UK,
Russia,
Slovakia, Germany, (is, bg), Uruguay, Pakistan, Sweden, Thailand, Brazil,
Denmark, South Africa, Mexico, Greece, Singapore, Canada, Italy, Belize,
Norway
....
That makes 26 without ATCnet which is a group from or for Africa, but with
no
defined member states.

I added Brazil based on a member's e-mail address and the description.

***I see .is and .bg on two e-mail addresses.
These are Bulgaria and Iceland, but I see no mention of those countries in
the
descriptions.

***Where are: France, the Netherlands, China, Colombia?
I think we have people from those countries involved.

***How do we distinguish (or do we) between groups _from_ a country and
those
working _for_ it in some capacity?

***Three or four projects (more?) have no URL's. Anyone looking for a site
should speak up. Among us we can host worthy projects. Having a site is
actually
how
we defined an "organization" so all members ought to have one.

Let's get this cleaned up so we can crow over our growth, ok? If you're on
the
list and you are in a LUG or a school where you are using some free and open
source tools, consider joining Schoolforge.

Sincerely,

David

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