Hi Devin Ulibarri! On 2016-05-27 21:38, Devin Ulibarri wrote: > Hi, > > I am a music teacher and one of my gigs is teaching for New England > Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, MA. > > I dream of bringing free/libre software to the school for a number of > reasons, and am coming up with a strategy for what would be most > effective. My thought is a partnership of some sort between Ubuntu > Studio and NEC might be worth looking into. My colleagues are willing to > listen to me an the idealogical reasons why bringing software libre to > the school would be nice, but the conversation always ends with "Okay, > that was a great talk, but now what? How do we actualize all these great > ideas you preach?" > > Does anyone have ideas on how to do this?
Dreams, ideas and visions are the mandatory ingredients to any change. Many of us share this dream with you, i for one do. It is a steep path upwards you are taking, but i believe it is absolutely possible to reach your goal! Or put differently, thanks for reviving that hopeful nerve in me by reaching out to the list like this :) > > If we can get a game plan together, I am confident that I could get an > in-person meeting with the president or one of the deans at the school. > Ubuntu and ultimately Ubuntu Studio is backed by Canonical [1]. Before i got involved in the project, i turned to Ubuntu Studio with a similar vision to yours [2], thinking that there would be lots of potential, energy and will available. But now that i have insight i must inform you that, while all those ingredients are here, Ubuntu Studio in itself is _very_ small team. In fact, as the team looks right now, if we dedicated ourselves to a project like you are proposing, we would have little to no time to release new versions. Please rest assured i am not trying to discourage you, but i also have to be realistic. Most of the team resides in Europe ATM, it might not be much of a problem thanks to how Internet works, but meeting with the president/deans of your school will become logistically difficult. Especially if there is no promise of outcome yet. However, i am sure that if you can arrange such a meeting in a way that would allow some of us to go +/-0 on expenses, many of us will come with pleasure. > Things NEC would be interested in: > * Pedagogical Implications (I can help with this greatly. I helped > develop Music Blocks software with Sugar Labs, for example. musicblocks.net) > * Price savings (of course) > * Having their name on something (maybe copyright on some sound-fonts > that faculty help to create) > * A greater association that their school is "with the times" tech-wise > (unlike Berklee, NEC is stuck in middle-ages tech-wise and struggles > with its image in this area to a great degree) All this is nice and probably achievable. I would be very prudent with what kind of copyright you want to involve and how you present it. Copyright is a seemingly vague yet scalpel sharp but strange legal territory. FOSS and GNU/Linux is forged in a quite new and ground-breaking vision of how copyright should operate. I'm underlining this because how you let them > * Having their name on something could have very counter productive effects on your plan, or make it plain incompatible with FOSS on a legal level. > > Any Additional thoughts? Is this a project that Ubuntu Studio would be > interested in taking on? Change is scary for many, and a change in OS is ultimately vowed to put the current computer administrators of your school in a position where they are going to feel threatened: what will they do if their skill-sets become obsolete? A good way forward could be to find a way to include them into this change and to engage any eventual detractor into a constructive process. How to do that, i don't really know yet but i'd gladly brainstorm with you about it. :) When it comes to: > * Price savings Put the numbers flat on paper for your people to see. Last but not least: we are open for you to become a part of Ubuntu Studio.[3] We can provide you with a like-minded community, tools, brain-craft, encouragements, ideas and a platform to shape and sharpen your plan. Basically what i am saying is that you could become a member of the PR-[4] and documentation teams, working on a master-strategy for the implementation of Ubuntu Studio in schools. > > Thanks, > Devin > Welcome to Ubuntu Studio Devin! And feel free to bounce ideas here! -- Set Hallstrom aka sakrecoer [1] http://www.canonical.com/ [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2013-November/009665.html [3] https://ubuntustudio.org/2015/11/want-to-help-making-ubuntu-studio-a-great-os-for-creative-humans/ [4] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-public-relations [5] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-documentation
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