[ale] teaching opportunity

[Yu, Jerry]

you said it, George.

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# 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
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# 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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