Good Morning SLUG Members,
It's been about a month since the last update on the school project, and I
wanted to give everyone a final update as to where this has gone, and to
clear up some apparent misunderstandings.
First of all, I want to thank Adrian deLisser, Bill Preece, Norb Cartagena,
Ramiro Souto, Richard Sanchez and William Coulter for their hours of labor,
advice and in one case a traffic ticket, which resulted in a total success.
I'd also like to thank Paul Foster who allowed me to present this project to
SLUG some months ago.
There will be several articles coming out within the next two to three
months in various local and national publications relating to this project.
In the beginning it was going to be covered by Newsforge.com, but this has
gotten more positive press than I could have ever imagined. As those
articles come out, I will be posting those on our company website at
http://www.crbtechnologies.com. SLUG and the members that helped out will
be praised highly in those articles.
I will tell you now that there is a blurb on our website that mentions the
school project, but does not mention SLUG. This has been a point of
contention with some, and I want to explain why. I have been accused of
promoting my own company through this project at the expense of SLUG. I
have been accused of being dishonest regarding this project and the
involvement of SLUG. Nothing could be further from the truth. SLUG is not
mentioned on the website because this project was to prove Linux could do
all we said it could do, and then sell our services to the next customer,
thus allowing me to PAY those involved, all of which come from the group. I
have been advised that it would be significantly more difficult to charge
for labor if I say on my website that the labor was donated by SLUG. The
idea here was to bring some income to those who participated. I made no
money from the labor of these folks. Yes, I made a small amount on the
hardware sale, but that was disclosed to everyone right up front. I told
everyone that my goal was to pay people for their labor in these projects in
the future, but we needed a project to showcase to make that a possibility.
Well, we've done that, and SLUG can be proud.
To date there have been no articles released because until this week, the
project was not ready for "public" disclosure, due in no small part to the
fact that the school wanted to wait until the computer lab was all squared
away (furnishing wise) before pictures started appearing in the newspaper.
Also, we have been fine-tuning things and making sure all our ducks were in
a row before the articles were released. Things are coming to a conclusion
now, and the project will be ready for the "public" shortly.
Again, I want to thank everyone who helped us out. SLUG will be highly
praised in the articles that will be released soon, as will Linux in
general. This project means that some children who have never seen a
computer before now have access to the technology they need to succeed. You
made it happen, and we (the school and I) appreciate it more than you can
ever know.
Sincerely,
Dave
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David R. Meyer
President
CRB Technologies, Inc.
813-651-4933 (ph)
813-389-4529 (mobile)
david@crbtechnologies.com
Data Storage / Disaster Recovery / Data Security
http://www.crbtechnologies.com
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