[PLUG] Open Source In Our Schools

[Jon Jacob]

I admit I was being a little flippant due to time contraints.  I have
been too busy these days to write long treatises about my plans for the
schools.

What plan do I have?  Frankly, just good intentions.  However, we do
have districts in the area that have been successful at doing limiting
M$oft's influence and we could use them as a model.  (Perhaps stating
that I want to kick M$oft out was a bit too strong, but my point is to
introduce open source and limit our dependence on M$oft as a vendor.)

I guess my main response at this point is: how many other candidates for
school board have posted here and shown their willingness to be
open-minded about using open source in the Portland Public Schools.  If
you really want this to happen, you have someone who has worked on open
source systems, uses them daily, and is looking for new ideas to save
money.  If you want to part of the solution and not part of the problem,
perhaps you could assist in my efforts by posting your ideas how to
approach this.  I would be more than happy to hear your thoughts on this
(or any other issue).

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 11:33, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Hello,
> Your declaration to kick out Microsoft from the public schools is
> noble and it deserves support from the Linux community.
> However, do you have any feasible plans on how actually do this?
> Otherwise, how is it to be different from those corrupt 
> politicians, who promise golden mountains during their election
> campaigns and shortly forget about everything when they reach 
> the office?
> Could you please post here your detailed plan or program on how 
> you're going to push Microsoft from the public schools.
> 
> Regards.
> Alex
> 
> -------------------
> > Really enjoyed Ken Barber's opinion piece today.  
> > 
> > For those of you who don't know (and even for those who do), I am
> > running for Portland School Board.  Just for the record, as a Board
> > member I will push hard to convert any systems possible to open
> source
> > and kick Micro$oft out of our schools.  We need to save money and
> this
> > seems an obvious step.
> > 
> > I hope you support me and I would appreciate your vote on election
> day..
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > http://www.jonjacob.org
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jon Jacob <jon at manymoons.net>
> > 
> > 
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