August 8, 2010
TO: Fedoraproject.com Dear Fedoraproject.org, To help address the current, nation-wide shortage of qualified Linux technicians, developers, and administrators, Polk State College (PSC) and University of South Florida Polytechnic (USFP) are collaborating in a joint project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), to develop curricula for advanced, comprehensive 2-year and 4-year degree programs specializing in Linux administration which would be delivered online. Recently, we have been very impressed by the outstanding quality of the educational, non-proprietary Linux content found on your organization's public access website at http://www.fedoraproject.org <http://www.fedoraproject.org/> . We strongly believe that having our students view this material would greatly enhance their knowledge and understanding of Linux. However, as a practice, we typically avoid directing students to content on third party servers that are not hosted by academic institutions because of uncertainties surrounding the long-term availability of the content and associated URLs. Nevertheless, we believe your content would be so beneficial to our students that a workaround ought to be explored. Therefore, we request your permission to replicate and host your educational, non-proprietary Linux content on our academic course servers without charge so that it may be incorporated into our Linux curricula. The specific content for which we request permission is listed on page 3 of this letter. Naturally, the prospective Linux technicians, developers and administrators which take our courses would be made aware of this content's origin and authorship via a clearly displayed statement of credit/acknowledgement. It could have the following format, or any alternate that you specify: The following (or previous) excerpt courtesy of Fedoraproject.org, Copyright © {date}, Reproduced with Permission {URL} Please note that our use of your content would be strictly for traditional academic/educational purposes, and access to it would be restricted to our students, instructors, and academic support staff via a password protected CMS (course management system). However, please be aware that since this is an NSF funded project, it is possible our curricula may be made available by the NSF for use by other academic institutions and thereby be seen by students outside the geographic areas we serve. If you do choose to grant this request, kindly indicate your permission in a reply correspondence or simply sign and return this letter to the address indicated. An extra copy of this letter has been enclosed for your records. Also, if you have a preferred source/method for us to utilize in replicating your content, please let us know. We appreciate your consideration and hope for your support of this request. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Cliff Bennett Program Director STATEMENT OF PERMISSION: As the owner/author or designated agent having authority to grant this request, I hereby grant permission to Polk State College and University of South Florida Polytechnic to reproduce and host our copyrighted content as specified below: _______________________________________ Copyright owner/author or designated agent Signature _______________________________________ Copyright owner or agent Name (print) Please send reply correspondence or signed letter to: Polk State College 999 Avenue H, Northeast Winter Haven, FL 33881-4299 Content for Which Permission to Reproduce and Host on LINCS Project Servers is Requested: Page Title and/or Description of Content Beginning with... Ending with... URL(s) and/or Filename(s) File type (html, swf, java, wmv, etc.) Redhat-Fedora Linux www.fedoraproject.com <http://www.fedoraproject.com/> -- websites mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
