Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Casey Adams, founder and President of Open Solutions for Education and former IBM national education practice consultant here. I have a deep philosophical interest in open source for education and am happy to see such interest and hope that real change can be enacted with real dollars. My personal interest is in replacing costly and proprietary administrative applications with open source alternatives and returning valuable funds to instructional budgets.</div> <div><br></div><div>Mike, per your suggestions, I think that an organization along major IT areas might be an appropriate way to group conversations. At a high level, you could have network, infrastructure, applications and telecom with sub group conversations below. Example sub group structure could be Applications with Administration, Finance, HR, Instruction and Facilities underneath. Also, we might consider moving to a Wiki environment if this is going to result in several subgroups with defined topics of discussion.</div> <div><br></div><div>I am excited and willing to help in any way!</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Casey Adams<br>Phone: 678.221.4602<br>Fax: 717.326.3543.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Mike Huffman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhuffman@comcast.net">mhuffman@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000066"> <font size="+1">Let your friends and neighbors know about this listserv.<br> <br> I also want suggestions on how you see this being organized. Do we want subgroups within the education group or do we want to hammer out issues in the entire group. Within the next 2 days I will post some additional information on the main web page for the group. I want your feedback. I also hope we hear from everyone with an introduction. Just a few notes about who you are, where you are from and what you do. I hope to get a map up of locations of list members. (Anyone who wants to volunteer for this task won't be turned down.)<br> <br> I do not have a working understanding yet of timelines. This will become more clear as we see where other groups are headed. As soon as I get more information I will share it. At this point, working group chairs are reporting every two weeks (conference call) so things will take shape shortly.<br> <br> Thanks for your help. <br> <br> P.S. In my opinion, the education group is the most exciting and the one that will have the biggest future impact - to improve learning for K12 students. It is a big job but one with almost limitless rewards. <br> <br> Mike Huffman, Indiana<br> </font> </div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> education-wg mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:education-wg@opensourceforamerica.org">education-wg@opensourceforamerica.org</a><br> <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/education-wg" target="_blank">http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/education-wg</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br><br><br><br> </div>