[nylug-talk] NYLUG Meeting tomorrow with a side of education initatives

[Ruben Safir]

> >
> >Ron, I hope that you come to the meeting on Tuesday 30 May 2006.
> >At this meeting you may be able to start to organize a serious
> >effort.
> >
> >oo--JS.
> 
> The main determinant of the success of such projects is whether
> or not one single person can put in the hours per week needed to
> make things go, and to keep things going.  The key mover can be,
> in the first year, either inside or outside of the school.  But
> there must be a steady mover.
> 


Your not correct about this.  We've been involved with dozens of 
school projects and the problems that most fustrate such projects is not
the commitment of volunteers, but the combination of the Central
Department of Education and a lack of comitment of the school.

We had Concord running for years on multiple levels with Free Software, and
ran into problems up and down the food chain.

In the end, volunteering only takes you so far.  In fact, even paid workers
can only go for so long because the Department of Education is not paying 
much more than the minilaist levels of wages for support.

And then you have the Dell contract.


To make false statements like, this will take X number of people so many
days is irresponsible because frankly you can't guarantee that and your track record
with such predictions is not admiriable.

This meeting tomorrow is about what is good for NYLUG, and the future of NYLUG.
Please don't confuse that agenda with your own personal agenda.


Ruben


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