[ale] teaching opportunity

[Jonathan Glass]

hear-hear.

Oops

JBG


 is On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:01, Yu, Jerry wrote:
> you said it, George.
> 
> # -----Original Message-----
> # From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> # George Carless
> # Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:57 AM
> # To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> # Subject: Re: [ale] teaching opportunity
> # 
> # 
> # On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:30:14AM -0400, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> # > I believe we have effectively run off the teacher 
> # lady...... I say we give the job
> # > to the senior in high school.
> # 
> # Unfortunately, while I understand the rationale behind the 
> # responses that she was 
> # given, I think that this list came across as rather arrogant 
> # and overbearing.  
> # Result: another person put off running Linux, and upset by 
> # the Linux community.  
> # There might well be good reasons for running the course on a 
> # Windows platform - say, 
> # because the training centre wasn't currently geared up for 
> # running Linux, or because 
> # some element of what they have in place for training 
> # currently requires Linux 
> # software.  Either way, it can be useful to move people 
> # towards free software - PHP, 
> # MySQL, etc. - on a gradual basis, and it's not necessarily 
> # essential or even 
> # advisable to introduce people to these things on a platform 
> # that is alien to them.  
> # And I would suggest that the individual was likely looking 
> # for an instructor to set 
> # at least part of the curriculum, so while the description of 
> # the course may have been 
> # ambitious and perhaps inaccurate, this was hardly a reason 
> # for an all-out offensive.
> # 
> # In short, I think that some of you have simply succeeded in 
> # coming across as rather 
> # immature elitists who would prefer an argument to a 
> # constructive effort to actually 
> # move people over to using free software.  Ms. Bell repeatedly 
> # indicated that further 
> # discussion could take place off-list with any interested 
> # parties, and I honestly 
> # cannot blame her if she didn't want to get embroiled in a 
> # flamewar on some frankly 
> # rather pedantic points.
> # 
> # --George
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