Re: Why getting Shared Media rolling is important

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:13 -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote:
>  On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:27:49  0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote
>  
>  > Fortunately one already exists.
>  > 
>  > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Education
>  > 
>  > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
>  > 
>  > Rahul
>  on first look it seems passive.  am I missing the active part of talking to
>  those who'll need information to decide on a school wide roll out?  
>  
>  ~Karlie 
It is passive unless people get active ;-). Its just a few days old so
you still have a lot of room to do interesting things with it. Just
pointing it out as a gateway. Try it. 

Rahul

Why getting Shared Media rolling is important

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:12 -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote:
>  
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > 
>  > It is passive unless people get active ;-). Its just a few days old so
>  > you still have a lot of room to do interesting things with it. Just
>  > pointing it out as a gateway. Try it. 
>  > 
>  > Rahul
>  I thought I was getting active?   

I dont know what you mean by that. How were you getting active?

If you want to work on a educational project promoting Fedora to school,
I already pointed out the means to do so. You can subscribe to that list
and post your ideas there. 


Rahul

Active Vs Passive was..Why getting Shared Media rolling is important

[Karlie Robinson]

The information I read on the Edu page talks about vocational training 
for students. 

What I'm talking about is a no-holds-bared *marketing* assault on the 
installed computer base in schools. 

I'm not talking about teaching a few-thousand like-minded students how 
to run Fedora so they can land a job as an Enterprise Admin. 

I'm talking about convincing Schools to spend their Computer/Technology 
budget rolling out Linux, so a few Million kids can enjoy the freedom 
OSS brings. 

By actively searching out people who have the authority (common term 
"decision maker") to say to their board... "By going Linux, we will save 
thousands of dollars on software.  That money can then be used for [fill 
in the blank]." 

When it comes down to it, it's not about jobs operating Red Hat.  My 
idea was about getting Fedora on Millions of class room PC's. 

Think beyond enterprise servers for a moment and see what millions of 
little kids using Fedora/Linux means to the big picture and to the RH 
bottom line in years to come. 

If my marketing ideas aren't helpful to you here, I won't waste any more 
of your time.

~Karlie

Active Vs Passive was..Why getting Shared Media rolling is important

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 13:26 -0400, Karlie Robinson wrote:
>  The information I read on the Edu page talks about vocational
> training 
>  for students. 
>   
The mailing list is different from the wiki page which is why I gave
them both to you. Read the list archives for other ongoing discussions
before jumping into conclusions. 


>  What I'm talking about is a no-holds-bared *marketing* assault on
> the 
>  installed computer base in schools. 
>   
>  I'm not talking about teaching a few-thousand like-minded
> students how 
>  to run Fedora so they can land a job as an Enterprise Admin. 
>  
>  I'm talking about convincing Schools to spend their Computer/Technology 
>  budget rolling out Linux, so a few Million kids can enjoy the freedom 
>  OSS brings. 
>  
>  By actively searching out people who have the authority (common term 
>  "decision maker") to say to their board... "By going Linux, we will save 
>  thousands of dollars on software.  That money can then be used for [fill 
>  in the blank]." 
>  
>  When it comes down to it, it's not about jobs operating Red Hat.  My 
>  idea was about getting Fedora on Millions of class room PC's. 
>  
>  Think beyond enterprise servers for a moment and see what millions of 
>  little kids using Fedora/Linux means to the big picture and to the RH 
>  bottom line in years to come. 
>  
>  If my marketing ideas aren't helpful to you here, I won't waste any more 
>  of your time.
>  
>  ~Karlie 
Again, read the list archives. This is already being discussed there. 


Rahul

Active Vs Passive was..Why getting Shared Media rolling is important

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 4/14/06, Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson(a)webpath.net&gt; wrote:
[snip]
>  little kids using Fedora/Linux means to the big picture and to the
> RH
>  bottom line in years to come.
>
>  If my marketing ideas aren't helpful to you here, I won't waste any more
>  of your time. 
I think there are some small scale related project out there... for
example, trying to get python made the selected programming language
in beginning computer science classes in highschools.    There should
be a lot of opportunity for collaboration on this effort.