[seul-edu] Re: Unified Front...

[tom poe]

Hi:  Nevada schools just got hit with having to deal with Bush's let the kids 
transfer anytime they feel like it, and schools foot the bill, bill.  Can you 
imagine the cost to taxpayors on this one?

I appreciate your input Michael, and understand where you're coming from, but 
somehow we have to change the "Model".  And, there needs to be a nifty way to 
get the message out, that IT support is a voluntary, community-based reality, 
and geographically without limits [remote support], through a LUG network, or 
whatever.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 13:11, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:27:48AM -0700, tom poe wrote:
> > Hi:  Oh, OK.  One contract coming up.  $1 per year, or donation
> > of an amount school chooses, and a pair of eyes to take
> > responsibility.
> > What do you think?
>
> No good.  Person will definitely have more important things to do
> (or these will find him/her), and "free beer" isn't taken
> seriously and supposed to be Guinness.  Listen, those customers
> just won't recognize you if you do something "for free"!
>
> Paradox, but: $1 support makes it easy to drop the solution
> because nothing is invested.  It's cheap to drop, it's not even
> "serious".
>
> Believe me, I speak from experience...