Education and FOSS

paul_cour at verizon.net paul_cour at verizon.net
Fri Apr 14 18:56:59 EDT 2006


Hello

Well said!

I have $25.00, as a pledge.
Give me an address to where the Check should go...

paul courchene


>From: Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org>
>Date: Fri Apr 14 17:30:59 CDT 2006
>To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
>Cc: maddog at li.org, dtrask at vcsvikings.org, moquist at majen.net
>Subject: Education and FOSS

>Hi,
>
>Last year I attended David Trask and Matt Quist's New England Symposium up
>at Gould Academy.  This is an event for educators to show them how to use
>FOSS in education.  It was not only an educational event, but a good time.
>
>It occurred to me that it was a shame that not more educators got to go to
>this event to really take the time to see how FOSS can be used in schools,
>but also to feel the excitment and the electricity of this event.
>
>Then I started thinking about how we might leverage this event to influence more
>education to use FOSS.  After all, the voters of Merrimack voted to shelve
>their town library expansion, yet still upgreade their school computers
>while the government of Norway said that FOSS and thin clients could reduce
>computer hardware and software costs by 60%.
>
>Maybe what we need to do is get some influential state educators and/or
>a newspaper person to go up there for one day or better yet attend the whole
>session just to see what FOSS is really all about.
>
>Unfortunately there are costs that have to be borne.  The Gould sessions are
>$465. including housing and meals.  So I was wondering if we could:
>
>	o identify KEY people in State Government
>	o identify KEY newspeople (David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph comes
>	  to mind)
>
>to invite to these events (either Gould or UNH) to experience this first hand.
>
>If we identified a few people we could raise funds to give them a scholarship
>to either event.  I would opt for UNH, since it is a NH institution, not as
>far as Gould, and July is a bit later for planning than June.
>
>I would be willing to donate $100. to a fund for educating the educators.
>
>Comments?
>
>md
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