Re: Possible article on implementation of GNOME

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Bah!  I say go for it! :)  Jim makes the decision on what goes into the
journal but that doesn't prevent you from writing it anyways.  If it's
of good quality I don't see Jim minding.

sri

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:32 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> Hi, Rajiv!
> 
> In contrast to popular belief (well, Dave Neary mostly) I'm just the
> release organizer, not the editor-in-chief. That's Jim Hodapp. He's on
> the list so I'm sure he'll answer as well.
> 
> Google says Jeff Elkner is the guy who wrote "How to Think Like a
> Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" and who has a major role in
> Edubuntu.
> 
> Your idea sounds interesting but I'm afraid that our readers may fail to
> see a strong connection between GNOME and Jeff Elkner.
> 
> What I would find interesting is 'news from the front'; a short course
> into selling GNOME to (local) schools. Not sure if that's the right
> interview partner, though.
> 
> Cheers,
> Claus
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:43:20 -0400
> Rajiv Vyas <r rvyas gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > Claus:
> > 
> > Has anyone done a one-on-one piece on Jeff Elkner. Red Harring did an
> > article recently in which they mentioned about his implementation of
> > Ubuntu (hence a possibility for some GNOME plug). If no one has
> > written about it in the GNOME journal, please let me know and I could
> > do one for next year's issue.
> > 
> > I live about 60 miles from his school so I could drive down or do it
> > over the phone/email.
> > 
> > Obviously, it's not news anymore, but we could sort of do a profile on
> > why Ubuntu, GNOME and Free Software and also on Jeff Elkner who has
> > been using free software in schools and colleges for the past eight
> > years.
> > 
> > Let me know what you think. Thanks,
> > 
> > Rajiv
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