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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