Here's an interesting way to make Open Source a little bit more visible. I think Koha would make a nice inclusion in Charles' list. There are probably other projects as well. Maybe Charles would be willing to share his list and letter for sending to other Governors (or whatever local leaders you'd care to send things to. thanks, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:29:55 -0500 From: Charles M Howe <cmhowe@patriot.net> To: linux-pe@tux.org, novalug@tux.org Subject: [Linux-pe]More on letter to Governor Warner A thought has occurred to me: Accompany the letter to the governor that I am composing with a compi;ation of short reports on open source software that might be useful to state government. If we do it right, it could amount a powerful statement. I will expand on this thought later in this post. There is a vast list of possibilities, of course. Citing too many would be counterproductive but I have no feel for how many might be cited. It wouldn't surprise me if there were as many as one hundred candidates for inclusion. What do I want? Send me up to a page about your candidate for inclusion in the report. Say what it does. Give a URL. Say what the license is -- GPL. LGPL, BSD, whatever. Say a little about you or your orgsanization's experience or what you know of someone's experience. Say how big it is. I said earlier that this statement could become a powerful statement. Here is what I had in mind: You might want to include your name and title. If enough people sign on, it would amount to a way of saying that we are serious people with a serious contribution to make. Our existence would figure in his political calculus. Let me hear from you. Charlie _______________________________________________ Linux-pe mailing list Linux-pe@tux.org http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pe