[luau] Friday night IRC meeting, Linux for Hawaii schools

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

Is your organization a secret?  Nothing has ever been mentioned on this
list (the only open source technology forum I know of in Hawaii) about your
organization, until now.  It is great that you have done this work and are
supporting open source in Hawaii, but is sounds like you are being critical
of people on this list for not helping, when you never mentioned it.

Scott also thought things were not moving in a organized enough manner, so
he formed HOSEF on his own and currently has a warehouse full of donated
hardware, volunteers sorting thourgh the hardware, is talking to schools to
use the hardware, received non-profit status, and has a board of directors
now running HOSEF.  Sounds like you and Scott were working along the same
path, the difference is Scott kept everyone informed of what he was doing.

What is the name of your organization?  It would be nice if the two worked
together.  There should be no reason the two organizations couldn't remain
seperate but work together to accomplish the same goal. It sounds like you
have some good mainland support, where HOSEF has good local support.  HoSEF
is a non-profit, so the menbers should not be worried about a competing
group taking all the profits and there are a lot of schools to cover.  This
is evident from the fact that with all the schools HOSEF has talked to they
never heard of your organization.

P.S. - I am not a boad member of HOSEF, so I can not speak for them.  This
is just my opinion.

Mahalo,
Dusty




>            Warren
>                           It's already a done deal.  Remember last July
>                           I
> asked you to help me setup a demo for the Lingle
> Campaign headquarters but you were busy giving a speech on the big
> island? Well thanks to the help I received from the mainland and a team
> of individuals who are experienced with LTSP and RHAS, we were able to
> put together a demo and have created a non-profit group dealing
> primarily with the public school system.  I have all the tech
> coordinators on
> a list here on Oahu and have been working on this project since July of
> last year.  I have had more time since being injured to talk with all
> the coordinators, DOE and have the support from three major entities
> here in Hawaii and abroad.
>
> I mentioned before that I support what you guys are doing but I didn't
> feel anyone back in July showed any interest in this so I just did this
> myself with other support.  I don't see a need to bring anyone else in
> on this at this time and don't feel it would be appropriate since I
> have already done the leg work.  This is a done deal.  I am even in the
> process of signing up some of the coordinators for training at CompUSA.
>  I have already spoken with some of the people doing the Linux/LTSP
> training.  If we need any additional support, I will be sure to let you
> know.  Since the applications were
> certified with this new version of RHAS no tweaking was needed.  Since
> last July nobody else from the group has setup the kind of donations,
> support and connections that I have done.  My point was always rather
> than debate or discuss issues that are non related to do something
> about it and I did. Regardless I still support what you guys are doing
> because Opensource is the only way to go.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu [mailto:luau-admin at vid
> el.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf to Warren Togami
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:37 AM
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: Re: [luau] Friday night IRC meeting, Linux for Hawaii schools
>
> LinuxDan wrote:
>>             I have been working with the DOE, the state of Hawaii,
>>             CompUSA
>> (supporter), Redhat (supporter) and Oceanic (supporter) on the public
>
>> schools.
>>             We have already geared up a demo to be presented to all
>>             the
> tech
>> coordinators here on Oahu.
>
> Eh... who is "We"?  You have been almost out of communication with our
> efforts of HOSEF so I have no idea what you're up to.
>
> I now have time to present to educators or anyone on any topic.  Just
> connect me with the audience and I will win them over.
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
>
>
>
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