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

["Matt Jezorek" <matt@bluelinux.org>]

Yes i am currently working on that moved something around and setting up a
rule for it sorry about that it should be fixed

The basic information on BlueEDU is at http://edu.bluelinux.org/  or
http://linuxedu.info/ both go to same thing right now

Now!

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: Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Draft letter of invitation for Schoolforge


> 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
> >
> >