[education-wg] Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] US edu contacts

[Tom Hoffman]

Excellent, you're one of the few people I'd trust to do this, Greg.

And if I can offer one suggestion: if you have an opportunity, hammer
on the fact that non-commercially licensed software is not and has
never been open source.  A huge chunk of federally funded software
(i.e., NSF) languishes in the non-commercial non-foss limbo and
changing that harms *nobody*.

--Tom

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
<greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've heard lots alluded to.  Next week I'll be visiting the US DoE to talk
> with some folks there about their various open source / open content
> initiatives, and I intend to post a full briefing to this list.  Look for
> something next Saturday.
>
> --g
>
> On Jan 15, 2010 9:28 AM, "Tom Hoffman" <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know anything about this?
>
> --Tom
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Puttick <cputtick at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:36 AM
> Subject: [sf-uk-discuss] US edu contacts
> To: sf-uk-discuss at googlegroups.com
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I've been given a tip that President Obama is launching an edu
> challenge for open source next week. Any US-based contacts might
> benefit from a heads up as depending on the details this could be a
> real boost for open source in education there. I guess if we retain
> the same government after the next election we will presumably copy
> this idea in about 5 years...
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
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