[LibrePlanet-US-MA] Lets start something! Introductions and planning

[Danny Piccirillo]

Hello everyone, thanks for joining! Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?

I'm Danny, aka TheSilentNumber, aka 𝄽#, or just silent or # or
whatever you like for short!
DPic on freenode, #libreplanet-us-ma for those of you who aren't already there

Since this monday, i am an FSF intern
[http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/06/my-first-day-at-fsf.html] and
i'm excited to get this group off the ground. Please feel free to
introduce yourself and post any ideas you have for team activities,
etc.

First off, we need to do some more recruiting. This will be easier
once we start working on projects and activities, but how does 50
email list subscribers sound for an initial goal? Please invite
anybody who might be interested and post to identi.ca or wherever we
might find new members.

An idea raised on irc by John was to do something about this:
http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1910032546/In-Beverly-laptops-all-around-but-parents-have-to-pay
A massachusetts school disctrict is requiring each student to own a
macbook, and buy one if they don't have one. We should draft an open
letter on the wiki and if we have anyone in the area, an in-person
contact would be even more effective.

As part of the local ubuntu team a while ago, i had the idea of
starting an education-conversion task force which would go from one
public school system to another to encourage and assist them in
adopting free software. There weren't enough people who could dedicate
the time, but if we can get enough people here who could commit, i
know my old public school system has been broken in to free software
quite a bit (has had some ubuntu machines and lots of openoffice). The
tech director of the public schools has gotten very excited about
"open source" but she actually isn't very technical and seems to only
appreciate it as a buzz word. Still, it's a a decent start.

Do we have enough ideas to want to start organizing a team meeting (on
IRC), or should we wait until we've gathered more members?


-- 
.danny

☮♥Ⓐ - http://www.google.com/profiles/danny.piccirillo
Every (in)decision matters.