Re: [seul-edu] Getting started: Forming a coalition to promote free and open toolsand content in education

[Doug Loss <drloss@home.com>]

"David M. Bucknell" wrote:
> 
> Honestly, I think the tasks are, in something like this order:
> 
> 1. to get a name and a logo (again, I suggest that it not say Linux but rather
> include it)
> 
I'd suggest that an earlier step would be to get strong committments
from some of the major distributions to support the effort.  Since we'll
likely be trying to convince managerial types to consider our position,
it will help greatly to have organizations that they will recognize as
regular forms associated with us.  Otherwise they'll be leery of
committing to an amorphous (from their point of view) entity that might
cease to exist at any moment.

As for a name, how about Coalition for Open Software in Education
(COSE)?  Or perhaps Coalition for Open/Free Software in Education
(COFSE).  If we can come up with a word starting with "E" that means
software, we could get an acronym of COFEE, which could give an obvious
logo.

> 2. to form a group of people willing to work on gathering existing docs and
> writing new ones (or intros to existing ones)
> 
I think this will be fairly easy.  Roger, do we still have any contacts
with that Open Source Writers group?

> 3. to do the work: gather a list of existing bibliographies of docs and links
> and to collate and improve them
> 
Same as above.

> 4. present the stuff to this and other lists in the form of individual rfc's.
> 
> 5. to set it up so that it can be mirrored
> 
> 6. to consider whether to continue
> 
Nothing to consider.  We continue as long as there's a need.

Doug Loss
drloww@home.com