Re: [seul-edu] seul-edu posting guidelines

[Michael Viron <mviron@findaschool.org>]

Guys,

Just a suggestion -- you may want to update this e-mail to say
http://archives.seul.org/seul/edu/ (although of course you have the
redirect in place, it just would be nicer if they went to the correct site
right off the bat.

Michael


At 03:00 AM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>This is a regular message that is automatically posted to the seul-edu
>mailing list.  It contains guidelines and suggestions on how best to use
>SEUL/edu.
>
>[This is from the info file new subscribers get.]
>
>Welcome to the seul-edu mailing list.  This list is intended for the
>discussion of using Linux for educational purposes.  These include using
>Linux for student machines in school computer labs (primarily
>kindergarten through grade 12), using Linux for faculty and staff use in
>K12 schools, using Linux for network file, print, and application
>servers on K12 school networks, and using Linux for educational purposes
>on home computers.
>
>Discussion is open to (but not limited to) what programs should be
>found, ported, or developed for Linux to make it useable by teachers;
>what programs are desired by home users for personal education of
>themselves and their children; and what courseware is and should be
>available for student use in schools.
>
>We don't intend to create a new Linux distribution targeted at schools
>(although we would support such a distro if one became available) but to
>coordinate the discussion and development of educational things for
>Linux.  To that end we hope to stay in close contact with all the
>various Linux-in-education projects and discussion fora that have
>recently begun to appear.
>
>We invite you, our new subscriber, to send a brief introduction of
>yourself to the list, so we can keep track of what resources we have
>available and who our audience is.
>
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>The archives for this list can be found at
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>
>[The new subscriber info file ends here.]
>
>We have several web pages besides our main one
><http://www.seul.org/edu/> that are interesting and germane to the topic
>of Linux in education.  They are:
>
>Existing Linux educational software
><http://www.seul.org/edu/software.html>
>
>A list of projects we'd like to see
><http://www.seul.org/edu/todo.html>
>
>A list of educational software projects for Linux
><http://www.seul.org/edu/projects.html>
>
>A list of our weekly Linux in education reports
><http://www.seul.org/edu/reports.html>
>
>Links to other Linux in education sites:
><http://www.seul.org/edu/links.html>
>
>Archives of our email discussions
><http://www.seul.org/archives/edu/>
>
>A paper on Open Source Software project leadership
><http://www.seul.org/edu/oss.project.leadership.html>
>
>The Russian version of the above paper
><http://sampo.karelia.ru/~rnd/linux/oss.leadership.rus.html>
>
>A draft of a commercial port advocacy HOWTO
><http://www.seul.org/pub/howto/cpah.html>
>
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>SEUL/edu is for the discussion and development of ways to further the
>use of Linux in education.  The current focus of SEUL/edu is developing
>or locating Linux software for administrative and teaching
>purposes that is suitable for use in educational institutions.  Other
>roles for SEUL/edu include (but aren't limited to) exchanging thoughts
>on how to make the best use of Linux in schools, connecting people
>hoping to use OSS software in schools with the developers of such
>software, connecting non-technical people who want to help foster Linux
>use in schools with the many non-technical tasks that would be helpful,
>providing a forum for questions about using Linux in education,
>discussing the use of Linux for education outside of school environments
>(educational programs for the home user).
>
>The standard USENET rules for "netiquette" should be observed here--be
>polite, try to keep your quoted material down to no more than half of
>your message, be polite, keep your signatures down to 4 or 5 lines, be
>polite, change your subject lines when a topic drifts substantially away
>from its original focus, and be polite.
>
>If a message is about a specific project, try to use the project name in
>the subject.
>
>