Re: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Matt,
    Since I have never heard of Blue Linux, I went to your home page. When I
click on the "What is Blue Linux" link, the message comes up
"Not Found
The requested URL /home/whatislei/ was not found on this server.
Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 Server at bluelinux.org Port 80".

So I still don't know what Blue Linux is.

Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge


>This looks a good draft to me. If you dont mind make sure I get a copy I
>would love to join
>the coalition. Has the mission statement been finalized?
>
>P.S. Blue Linux is about to make an announcement that we are going to drop
>the secure os (to much replication),
>        slack help, not enough interest, not needed  to focus only on the
>BlueEDU Product.
>
>
>Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>
>BlueEDU Linux <http://bluelinux.org/>
>Lead Developer / Project Admin / Founder
>gpg fingerprint = E929 9A06 26B7 F786 407D  1C9D B273 F46F 9C1F 949B
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
>To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:43 PM
>Subject: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge
>
>
>> This is a first draft of a letter of invitation to be sent to all
>> prospective members of the Schoolforge coalition.  It would be nice to
>> get as many members as possible in the initial announcement, so we can
>> show ourselves to be a broad-based coalition rather than just a few
>> groups seeming to want to assume the mantle of "Linux in education."
>> Please critique it.
>>
>> Hello.  We know that you are working at furthering the use of Linux and
>> free software in general [this may be replaced by "free resources" in
>> the letter to non-software or advocacy projects such as open lesson
>> plans, etc.].  We are members of groups with similar goals.  Up until
>> now all of our individual projects have suffered from low visibility and
>> the tendency to repeat work that others were already doing or had
>> already done.
>>
>> When Red Hat Software made a counter-proposal to Microsoft's offer of
>> settling an antitrust lawsuit by giving US$1 Billion to US schools, we
>> were galvanized to try to take advantage of the sudden publicity this
>> gave the use of free software in education.
>>
>> We started planning for a coalition of groups that were all working to
>> make free software and resources more widely used in education.  You'll
>> find a description of this coalition (called Schoolforge) below [insert
>> David Bucknell's mission statement below].  We currently have numerous
>> members, including Open Source Schools, SEUL/edu, and RedHat [I mention
>> only these three because they probably have the highest name recognition
>> at the moment].  We'd like to invite you to join the coalition and help
>> us further our shared goals of providing free resources to our schools.
>> To join Schoolforge, just reply to this message with the name of your
>> group and the contact person.  We'll add you to the list.  If you'd like
>> to take part in the discussions and work of forming Schoolforge, go to
>> http://www.seul.org/edu/ and join the mailing list.  That's where all
>> the organizational work is taking place.  We hope to welcome you on
>> board!
>>
>> --
>> Doug Loss          As long as I have you there is just
>> drloss@suscom.net  one other thing I'll always need--
>> (570) 326-3987     tremendous self control.
>>                           Ashleigh Brilliant
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