Mike, Good to hear from you!
Of course Tulsa-LUG is welcome to borrow our ideas, as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure the rest of the FOSSILE members and BRLUG feels the same way. Once we actually have something going and organized ;) I'm sure we will make all materials available via the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL) or something like that. Concerning free|OSS on win32, yup, we've discussed that as well. It would be very cool if people could go to their local public libraries to get _any_ free and open source software they may have heard about. Navigating CVS servers, burning .iso files to CDs and even downloading from the Internet may not be easy or even feasible to many computer users. The whole idea for FOSSILE centers on the fact that if any software or documentation is "copylefted", it should, on principle, be available in public libraries. getting down off my soapbox, John Hebert --- "Melancon, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BRLUGers: > I moved to Oklahoma in January, and have been > lurking on the Tulsa-LUG list. > They've recently begun discussing a project to > provide open source CDs to > schools. They're only in the earliest stages of > getting this off of the > ground, but I've been following with some interest > your FOSSILE (if that's > the name you end up with) Project. > > In the spirit of open source communities, would > y'all mind if Tulsa borrowed > some of your ideas? For instance, I really like the > idea of providing a > CD-based distro s/a Knoppix, so users can boot up > Linux without having to go > through a difficult installation process. What > other software are you going > to provide? Will you provide open source s/w for > Win32, such as GIMP, > AbiWord? > > Finally, is there a central point of information for > the Library project? I > found the site pllug.sourceforge.net. But I also > read your emails about > getting a new domain for the project, or possibly > hosting a site off of the > BRLUG site. > > Anyway, thanks for all of your efforts in promoting > open source software. > You guys are doing a hell of a job. Maybe we can > get something going over > here, as well. > > best regards, > Mike Melancon > Stillwater, OK > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
