On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:19, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Hi, Laura Hyde, who works for AZSTRUT, I think the only paid employee, came to
> the installfest at GCC and was quite interested in linux in general and Linux
> terminal server specifically. They tend to get a lot of substandard boxes
> that would be quite usable as terminals.
>
> I've spoken to her several times and would be glad to work on this
>
> Charlie
Last I heard, Laura was trying to convince her boss, Ken Mystrom (I
think) to let us meet with him and do our song-and-dance. If Laura has
his approval, we can meet with the volunteer staff at one of their
centers. See how Laura wants us to proceed, Charlie.
>
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 03:19 pm, Michelle Lowman wrote:
> > I think this is a great idea. Would you like to draft the letter? As
> > soon as we have a date and location set, we can send it out. I would
> > like to get as many schools and educational organizations involved as
> > possible.
> >
> > --Michelle Lowman
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:11, minddog wrote:
> > > As a member of Free Software in Education, I'd like to help out with
> > > this. I think we should write a letter to azstrut organization and speak
> > > out on the behalf of the Free Software community to help out. Anyone
> > > else interested?
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:03, Plug@0x1b.com wrote:
> > > > As members of PLUG this is an opportunity to use our skills - and free
> > > > an important charity program, and its recipients, of any fear regarding
> > > > a BSA Audit.
> > > > I am speaking of StRUTS (www.azstrut.org) which redistributes used
> > > > computers to schools. These computers likely do not have the proper
> > > > papers for any software left on them. And rather than set the schools
> > > > up for a problem with any BSA Audit, we should replace it with free and
> > > > open software and certify the computer as not containing software
> > > > encumbered by a BSA Audit. a charity install fest anyone?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > --
> > > --minddog( Adam Ballai )
> > >
> > > "I try to take it one day at a time, but several of them attack me at
> > > once." -mistyflip
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