Obama, education, IT, and Money

[Matt Burkhardt]

I've written and sent CD's to Arne Duncan and several other education
leaders.  I've also written to my congressman and senators espousing the
need for more computers and lower TCO while citing several important
unbiased studies conducted by BECTA (British Educational Council on
Technology Assessment), the findings in San Diego, Indiana and several
other states or private schools that have gone with open source
software.

I don't have the deep pockets some of the other software manufacturers
have, but I do have some data and a voice!

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 09:57 -0800, Jeffrey LePage wrote:

> Forgive me while I dip into the world of politics.
> 
> Some details of the proposed/planned stimulus package are starting to
> appear in the media. I note 2 tech related bits:
> 1) improving school infrastructure, _including_ computers
> 2) free wireless internet
> 
> What will happen? Will $billions be shipped off to MS and other large
> proprietary interests, with little accomplished except the expansion
> of existing monopolies?  Will Dell and MS carpet-bomb the schools of
> America with Vista PC's? 
> 
> Does the open source community have a plan?  Do I need to write my
> congressmen?
> 
> There are numerous articles out there claiming that Obama is friendly
> to open source, but I'm not convinced.  
> 
> 
> -- 
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> 

Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD  21701
mlb at imparisystems.com
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901


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