Re: [OS:N:] Matthew Szulik and the "Open Source Education Corporation"

[Tony Nichols <tony mail applog com>]

Steve Haragon over at http://www.k12computers.com/Articles.asp?ID=123 
has a handful of links. His group seems to be pretty active in the
software and hardware side.

t o n y

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:05 -0800, Jeffrey LePage wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> In 2002 Matthew Szulik proposed the creation of an
> "Open Source Education Corporation" to open up schools
> to FOSS and solve the growing technical education
> problem (http://www.linux-mag.com/id/972).
>  
> I was wondering what became of this idea.  Nearly 6
> years after the original proposal, Googling "Open
> Source Education Corporation" brought up a mere 4
> links.
>  
> Things have changed a lot since 2002.  OLPC is a
> reality, the state of Indiana is busily completing a
> rollout of 300,000 Linux based laptops to its high
> schools, and Vista is widely regarded as a flop. On
> the other hand, a lot of people in education are
> completely unaware of the existence of Linux and other
> FOSS projects.  Perhaps it's time to re-introduce this
> idea?
> 
> Mr. Szulik: are you listening? 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jeff LePage
> www.jefflepage.com
>  
> P.S.  Who am I?  I'm a long-time fan of Linux and Open
> Source.  I also have two children in a public
> charter school (www.freehorizonmontessori.org).  I
> recently installed 22 linux laptops at this school. 
> I'd like to do much more, but I don't have the
> necessary resources.
> 
> 
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