Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-29 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 28, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-28 14:44:56 Jim Thompson wrote: As a non-member, I have no vote in the matter, Since you're calling for membership, will you be the first to join? Absolutely not. I am completely private, (versus PUBLIC), and avoid to

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Thu, 2008-03-27 16:13:40 Jim Thompson wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Dave Burns wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Kuokoa project got mentioned. I don't see that as competing with e-waste much. If we had volunteers with the required skills

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 16:13:40 Jim Thompson wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Dave Burns wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Kuokoa project got mentioned. I don't see that as competing with e-waste

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread P
Reply inserted below. On Thu 08/03/27 4:13 PM , Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: My concern with additional school labs is that we're butting heads with DOE and many (not all, but many) tech coordinators, who all want the shinny new stuff (and there are hard-science reasons for it

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Fri, 2008-03-28 00:01:34 Jim Thompson wrote: The ISO 639-2/639-3 code for Hawaiian is haw. Excellent. It would be a good idea to get one or more Hawaiian Fonts into distributions such as Edubuntu so that installation becomes as easy as aptitude install fonts-hawaiian. Aloha, Angela

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread P
Sorry, my webmail is not formatting my replies correctly. Let's try this again. Reply inserted below. --Peter On Thu 08/03/27 9:55 PM , Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: My concern with additional school labs is that we're butting heads with DOE and many (not all, but many) tech

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been warned away from the Hawaiian Studies group(s) at UH. Actually this does not much surprise me and it would not surprise me much if it turned out that teaming with them ended up being counter-productive or

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread P
One last attempt before I give up. Sorry. Reply inserted below. --Peter On Thu 08/03/27 9:55 PM , Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: My concern with additional school labs is that we're butting heads with DOE and many (not all, but many) tech coordinators, who all want the shinny new

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Fri, 2008-03-28 10:30:03 Dave Burns wrote: also seemed possible that the whole thing is some personal vendetta or power sturggle between Scott and Jim. Apparently it's *WAY* bigger than publicly known. Until this blow-up I didn't have any awareness that HOSEF *had* a board, as all the

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-28 10:30:03 Dave Burns wrote: also seemed possible that the whole thing is some personal vendetta or power sturggle between Scott and Jim. Apparently it's *WAY* bigger than publicly known. Until this blow-up I didn't have

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Fri, 2008-03-28 14:44:56 Jim Thompson wrote: As a non-member, I have no vote in the matter, Since you're calling for membership, will you be the first to join? Absolutely not. I am completely private, (versus PUBLIC), and avoid to whatever extent possible, *any*thing of corporate nature.

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Wed, 2008-03-26 22:16:23 Jim Thompson wrote: I don't think the current setup with the Executive Director is   working, nor is healthy for the organization. ...and your proposed alternative is? I'll repeat what I said earlier; you can fix a watch by replacing its   parts, but replacing

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-26 22:16:23 Jim Thompson wrote: I don't think the current setup with the Executive Director is working, nor is healthy for the organization. ...and your proposed alternative is? to eliminate the position, put Scott on the

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'd like to reach out to the Apple community (Jordan Hubbard is an acqaintence, and he was spun up to speak at TPOSSCON/PFOSSCON this year, though that didn't happen.) There is a good local mac group,

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Thu, 2008-03-27 03:18:52 Jim Thompson wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: what ails it? what is the proposed solution? There are many things that ail HOSEF. It is underfunded for its current mission. Obviously changing the mission may be quicker and easier than

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Dave Burns wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'd like to reach out to the Apple community (Jordan Hubbard is an acqaintence, and he was spun up to speak at TPOSSCON/PFOSSCON this year, though that didn't