On 4/12/06, Jon maddog Hall <maddog@xxxxxx> wrote: > I note, by the way, that your email list is "fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx" > This is a recipe for failure. It is the same philosophy that killed Unix. > It should be "FOSS-education-list", or better yet > "FOSS-education-list@some-neutral-body". That way groups from Novell, Ubuntu, > Debian, Slackware and others can join you. Just for context, Red Hat/Fedora has long hosted the "K12 Open Source Now" list, which is pretty much distro-agnostic, although certainly K12LTSP oriented. I just took the opportunity to vent my desires and dreams on this new list because it seemed like there was potential for money to be invested by Red Hat/Fedora in particular. Also, Red Hat is putting a lot of effort into development for the One Laptop Per Child project -- six full-time developers, I've heard, which is also inherently a FOSS in education initiative, so perhaps they could squeeze out more for advocacy in the US. I do, however, get the feeling that there is a bit of a Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/K12LTSP vs. Novell/Linspire schism, although it is hard to say. --Tom
