Ollie, I'm cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the mailing list) on this FYI. On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 13:05 PST, Olavo Kluft wrote: > My name is Ollie and I have attended the last two meetings and will > not be able to make it to this next one because of school, but wanted > to let you guys know that Microsoft has been pushing really hard to > get their programs and OS's used at the university computer science > department. I would like to send E-mails to Red Hat, Suse, Debian, > Mandrake, etc.. and see just how much free stuff I can get so we can > hand this stuff out at the university and generate more support for > Linux in the local computer science community. May I use the RLUG > name in my E-mails? I will bring to RLUG what ever is sent to me or > have everything sent to the RLUG address (if I knew what that is) for > us to do this as a group. This is just in the idea stage and I would > like your opinion before I do anything. I would hate to have > Microsoft be taught in both the CS and IS departments at the > university. Microsoft has also hired a student representative to push > their products, they have a member on the board of regents in > engineering, and will be giving away free software to students in the > near future. I feel that we need to act and act quickly before we > lose what little support we do have here in town.
If you are willing to organize this then I am all for it. If you do have materials sent to you though make sure to say that you are not the official mailing address for RLUG and are merely someone receiving mail in care of RLUG. > Besides the university I feel that there is a need for getting Linux > into the elementary and high schools. I was given a disk at the Linux > World Expo by the Open Source Education Foundation http://www.osef.org > that is bootable and will run Linux on any PC for kids to learn Linux. > We may be able to get the school district to consider this because it > is a cheap alternative to buying new computers or OS's. The WCSD is a tough nut to crack. I think the creation of NNCS and actually getting this thing organized will be good for getting into these other organizations. -- Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com Reno Nevada _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
