[seul-edu] SEUL/edu and Schoolforge

[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

I'm glad to see the enthusiasm from Steve and Tom!  Let's see if we 
can accomplish something with it!

But what I want to talk about here is SEUL/edu, Schoolforge, and the 
relation between them.

SEUL/edu was formed more than three years ago to provide a rallying 
point for people interested in getting Linux into education.  At the 
time, it was pretty much the only place to go if that was your 
interest, and it flourished.  However, over the years many other small 
sites appeared as people became interested in the possibilities of 
Linux in education.  They usually talked among themselves (just a few 
people) and discussed the same things all the other groups were 
discussing.

Late last year we (David Bucknell from Open Source Schools, us here, 
and some others) decided to form Schoolforge, a coalition of all the 
groups interested in getting open resources into the schools.  We also 
set up a mailing list, schoolforge-discuss, for general discussion on 
any aspect of getting such resources into education.  Of course, this 
covered much of what the seul-edu mailing list had done for years.

Since we didn't want Schoolforge to seem like just another name for 
SEUL/edu, we encouraged all seul-edu subscribers to also subscribe to 
schoolforge-discuss and to take general topics there.  We decided to 
use the seul-edu list for discussions that were specific to SEUL/edu 
projects.

That's been a bit difficult, since SEUL/edu didn't actually _have_ a 
lot of specific projects.  Right now the SEUL/edu projects are our 
Educational Applications Index, our Case Studies listings, and our 
bi-weekly Linux in education reports.  This discussion about 
developing the ISO of educational software is exactly what this list 
is for.  But let's not get too much general discussion about Linux in 
education here.  I'd like to see that on schoolforge-discuss, where 
people from all the other Linux educational groups can see it and take 
part too.  If you're not subscribed to schoolforge-discuss, go to 
<http://schoolforge.net> right now and join up!

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