"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." - David Meyer
Your words speak for themselves. Please explain which portion of the
above paragraph I misunderstood. EMail is a wonderful way to document
your own ignorance. I've learned this painfully from personal experience
>10 years online.
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com>
http://ian.blenke.com
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:42, David Meyer wrote:
> The group will be mentioned in the articles...very much so. The articles
> are NOT about my company...they are about Linux in the schools and the SLUG
> group that made it happen. Guys, you're missing the point here. This isn't
> for my company. I don't know what I can do to let you guys understand that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Craig
> Zeigler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:14 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] School Project - Final Update
>
>
> My only question is: Why did you take on such a project if you knew you
> would have to look outside of your company to make everything work?
>
> You seem to credit everyone involved on the list, but like you said you
> can't mention to the media that slug made your project possible... I'm
> not sure how those involved are reacting to this, but I would like to
> know. I hope for your reputation's sake in the Open Source community
> that those involved knew the group would not be mentioned.
>
> Finally, if you post another project of this type, I hope everyone else
> tells you to RTFM, because I for one would not help you if I thought for
> a minute you were going to pull that again.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Meyer [mailto:david@crbtechnologies.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:29 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] School Project - Final Update
> Importance: High
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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