Re: [seul-edu] Simplified End User Linux

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Michael Williams wrote:
> 
> Justin Zeigler wrote:
> 
> >   As one of the guys helping put linux in schools (working
> > with Harry McGregor) I feel that this list has outgrown its
> > place in SEUL.
> >
> > What I feel is needed
> > is one site where the information we all have can be easily
> > shared.
> >
> >   May I encourage that we re-spawn the existing SEUL-EDU as a
> > new independent group with a focus of Anything Open Sourced for
> > Anything Education.
> >
> May I suggest contributing to k12linux.org.
> What you have suggested is exactly what the site was created for.
> 
I think Michael is right here.  One of the problems I see is that a lot
of sites are being set up without much investigation of what already
exists, and either duplicate already available content or miss coverage
in places where they could make real contributions.  We don't need to
spawn yet another site like that.

k12linux.org sounds like a good domain for something like this.  I'm
reluctant to recreate SEUL/edu at this point because we're just now
beginning to get some actual notice and (I hope) respect for what we're
doing.  There's an old rule of thumb in the advertising business that
says whenever you make any change (name change, new address, new
telephone number, etc.) you lose half your revenue for three months. 
Separating from SEUL and becoming an independent entity would be
unnessarily confusing, I'm afraid.  Besides, does SEUL really have the
connotations of things for unsophisticated users that LinuxNewbie (for
instance) has?  That was the original goal of SEUL, but the organization
has expanded and transformed so that any programs that make Linux easier
and more interesting to use on the desktop fit the mission statement. 
Assuming we ever rewrite the mission statement.  Besides SEUL/edu,
there's SEUL/pub, and there will be at least one new SEUL/? section
coming along in the next few weeks.

As to the software being hard to find here, I don't really think that's
the case.  If you do a websearch for Linux and education, you'll find
SEUL/edu pages coming up on every combination of words you can think
of.  How would having a separate domain change that?

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