On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 13:17, Ed Lawson wrote: > This Tuesday, I attended a meeting of the school tech coordinators in > Exeter which had as the primary topic Linux and open source software. > > It was amazing. In Exeter they have a professional development center > with 30 computers running Linux Terminal Server and they are opening a > Charter School which will be using Linux exclusively. Other schools are > moving forward with major Linux and Open source initiatives and the > state DOE seems to be interested as well. Several participants ran > Linux on a variety of laptops including Apples and many are uniformly > installing and using Open Office in place of MS Office for office > machines. It appeared the E-Smith server package is becoming the tool > of choice to use in installing and setting up servers in schools. > > The consensus of may participants was to get people using Open > Source cross platform applications and then they can more easily be > moved over to Linux which is one reason why promoting Open source > on windows is beneficial to the adoption of Linux
I for one am glad that you attended and represented us (presumably?) > I think it is fair to say thinks are moving forward at a very rapid rate > and it would be nice if GNHLUG could find a way to facilitate and assist > this activity. From my perspective, the lack of organization and > coordinated activities, as much as that might work internally and among > ourselves, is a major limiting factor when dealing other organizations. I agree on all points. I would like to repeat my desire to step aside for someone with the time and drive to take on the task of leading the organization. I think that there's a tremendous amount of work that the LUG can do given good leadership. My workload and family prevent me from being an active leader now, and I only continue in the role for lack of someone stepping forward. I can't even play with Linux anymore, much less lead a group. > I feel GNHLUG is for this reason, as perhaps it should be, more a small > and loose collection of kindred spirit Linux users as opposed to an > organization which also engages in activities for its promotion and > education about its use. This is where I disagree. It's always been my stated position that there's plenty of room for light-weight organization that does what it's always done, plus adds enough structure to make more aggressive ideas plausible. With full-time leadership, the group can do a heck of a lot of good things as a group. I'll once again ask: anyone got time and drive to lead us onward? > On a side note, shortly around a dozen libraries and other computer > access centers in the norther part of the state will soon have large > collections of Opens Source software for loan and use. > > Ed Lawson > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-org mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org -- Rob Lembree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JumpShift, LLC _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
