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 Scott

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Angela Kahealani wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 01:30:13 Jim Thompson wrote: This is a general spirt, hackers program because programming challenges are of intrinsic interest to them. Problems related to programming arouse genuine curiosity in the hacker and make

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] FLOSS in Education

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
On Thu, 2008-03-27 22:56:53 Jim Thompson wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Angela Kahealani wrote: Its not even working in the long term. HOSEF has lost many of the school labs it installed. Lost? how? why? Because the tide turned. Am I understanding that HOSEF installed FLOSS

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

[LUAU] HOSEF Membership Drive

2008-03-28 Thread Angela Kahealani
Since HOSEF is short on cash, and since it would be great to have HOSEF members actually vote on the direction of HOSEF, and who is or is not to be in positions of power there, maybe it's time for a Membership Drive, which will both improve the cash situation by the collection of dues, and give

Re: [LUAU] list archive changes

2008-03-28 Thread David Kiwerski
Thanks Vince!!! Vince Hoang wrote: I just changed the list archives from public to private. I hope to switch it back to public once things die down. Scott, I strongly recommend you remove emergency moderation and do the same. The discussions belong on hosef-managers but will continue to

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

[LUAU] HOSEF server going down in 1/2 hour

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Chee
Since HIG is losing power sometime early in the AM, I'm going to shutdown the server around 4:30pm today and then bring it back up tomorrow evening. Sorry folks, but UH is having LOTS of power upgrades and this time it's all day since the work is being done at the substation. /brian chee

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.