Arrangments:
So what do you guys think we need to arrange this "meeting"?
I'm going to setup part of our wiki for you guys to play with ideas.
http://www.gnufans.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FreeSoftwareEducationalDeployment
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:26, Jim wrote:
> 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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--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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