[huskerlug] Re: crap (aka, Administrators consider Microsoftsoftware)

That was what I was thinking as well.  The only thing is I'm leaving for
home for 3 weeks.(leavin' this Sunday), so I'm asking for a volunteer or
two that would help start the ball rolling on this.  The first thing is
talk to ASUN and find out when we could be heard.  After a date is set,
is it can be set, we'd have to have a mad rush to find, as J.R. says,
"DOCUMENTATION, DOCUMENTATION, DOCUMENTATION", and put it together
before presenting.  This would take a couple of volunteers as well.

I can't do this by myself and, in good Open Source spirit, am callin'
out for people to help out with a little of their energy and within
their means, of course.  If you guys are really interested in putting
this together and going through all this I'm up to the challenge.  Even
if you are not a student here, we could use the help finding articles,
or help with stuff that might arise in the process.

Let me know and we'll get the ball rollin'.

-Cesar Delgado
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: huskerlug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:huskerlug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J.R. Wessels
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [huskerlug] Re: crap (aka, Administrators consider 
> Microsoftsoftware)
> 
> 
> ASUN office.  They have probably changed out senators for the 
> organizations, so my old contact is probably obsolete.  Ask 
> them who the organization senator for our group is, or if 
> they don't know or have one yet, ask to speak in the open 
> forum at the next meeting.  They may need to vote to ask if 
> you are even allowed to speak at the next open forem (kinda 
> stupid if you ask me), so then the next meeting after that 
> you would be able to speak.
> 
> Get your hands on the proposal in full - a news artical is 
> probably going to leave things out and reading the fine print 
> + posting it on the list would be good.
> 
> I would like to help, but not till after finals (like I said, 
> I'm just going to hang in the background when I resigned).  
> If you are going to take action (and I encourage you to do 
> so, could be good publicity for the group, and a good cause), 
> talk to ASUN, administration, see if you can get records for 
> expenditures on software, survey, tech admins and IS 
> management.  The only way to actually beat this is if you 
> have DOCUMENTATION, DOCUMENTATION, DOCUMENTATION.  If you 
> don't take this seriously, and considering UNL's buraeucracy 
> (sp?), then you won't stand a chance of making a single 
> difference in the proposal.
> 
> Getting rid of the proposal entirely is probably unrealistic. 
>  Perhaps try to change things, like the requirement for all 
> students to pay, or that free alternatives be placed right 
> next to the MS items for the students that don't want to pay. 
>  Also, perhaps getting the academic staff involved would help 
> - I get the feeling that most free thinking individuals don't 
> like things being stuffed down their thoats.
> 
> That's my background advise, now to disappear into the 
> shadows again....
> ;)
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 10:28, Cesar Delgado wrote:
> > 
> > Shane,
> > 
> > Our link to ASUN was J.R. and I think when he left he took 
> that with 
> > him.  We are going to have to find out who we have to talk to about 
> > this whole thing.  Anybody got any ideas who we should have 
> a little 
> > chit-chat with?
> > 
> > Please let me know,
> > 
> > -Cesar Delgado
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Scientific Visualization
> > Secure Distributed Information @ UNL
> > http://molebio.unl.edu
> > cdelgad2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, beettlle@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: huskerlug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:huskerlug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shane Geiger
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:20 AM
> > > To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [huskerlug] Re: crap (aka, Administrators consider 
> > > Microsoft software)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Caesar,
> > > 
> > > Why does UNL have to subsidize software purchases for the
> > > students anyway?  Even if students must have newer computers 
> > > to do their work--which, we have determined, is perhaps 
> > > usually more a want than a need--doesn't the usual M$ 
> > > software come on a newly purchased PC already (whether you 
> > > like it or not)?  My guess is that this scare tactic should 
> > > fall through if this is looked at logically.  
> > > 
> > > I'd like to think that those making these decisions get the
> > > benefit of the discussion taking place on this mailing list.  
> > > Is anyone on this list in touch with ASUN?
> > > 
> > > Shane
> > 
> > 
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