Re: [seul-edu] Fw: Red Hat Center (Refered by Joe Lacal)

[jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>]

Very Interesting, I have been in contact with the RH Center for a bit
now, and would be very interested in coming to this upcoming conference
is there any more information?  Sura is planning, if we can get it off
the ground an educational courseware portal relating to open source in
education that might be of interest.  

Douglas Loss wrote:
> 
> Jen Horney from Red Hat Center sent this to me a little while
> ago.  I'm reposting it here with her permission.  Could we get
> some discussion on the ideas here?  Jen's on the seul-edu
> mailing list, so she should see all the replies.
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jennifer Horney wrote:
> 
> > My name is Jen Horney and I work at Red Hat Center, the
> foundation
> > started by the founders of Red Hat Inc. to advance the cause
> of open
> > source in other areas - such as education, medical research,
> etc.
> >
> > We met Jose Lacal at a conference at NYU this Spring on
> Intellectual
> > Property and I recently flew down to Ft. Lauderdale to meet
> with him and
> > talk some more about the benefits of open source in education.
>  He
> > suggested that I get in touch with you.  I have read you
> postings on
> > freshmeat.net, and had briefly discovered seul.org before, so
> your name
> > was familiar to me.
> >
> > We are trying to do a variety of things - gives grants and
> host programs
> > mostly - we are doing an education session on Captiol Hill in
> September
> > on open source in education and planning a rather large and
> hopefully
> > inclusive conference for next year that would bring together
> the
> > different communities working in open source - end users,
> developers,
> > businesses, and public policy folks to work on what happens to
> open
> > source as it moves more into the mainstream.  Jose is
> hopefully going to
> > come up and "testify" for us at the Senate Sessions.
> >
> > Anyway, Jose put me in touch with you and wondered if there
> are ways
> > that we might be able to work together.  Any thoughts about
> any of
> > this?  Anything that we can do for you or things that you
> think we could
> > be doing?  Sorry to be so up in the air, but we're just
> getting started,
> > and trying to make contact with some people.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jen Horney
> >
> >
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