> De: "Edgar J. De Cleene" <
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> Fecha: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:14:04 -0300
> Para: <
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> Asunto: Re: [Newbies] Linux and Squeak server help
>
> El 11/17/07 7:43 PM, "
[hidden email]" <
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>
>> Edgar,
>>
>> I don't have any photos that aren't very unflattering - I am not a very
>> photogenic subject!
>>
>> The biggest request I could make is for you to make sure your students
>> realise this is how Open Source/Software Libre is supposed to work -
>> everyone sharing their experience and knowledge for the Communal benefit.
>>
>> Too many people think that just because they are not great programmers
>> they have nothing to contribute. The fact is they can help people with
>> annoying errors (as in your case), or they can improve documentation (as I
>> have done with the Debian Installation Manual and the Gnu Project), or
>> submit bug reports and tests that surface those bugs (I have done this
>> recently with Squeak and GOODS). Everyone has ways they can contribute to
>> improve the quality and usability of Free Software. Not everyone can
>> contribute as visibly as you have done with Squeak, but I believe it's
>> the little changes brought about by the ordinary people that have the
>> biggest impact, not the major changes done by the Torvalds, Ingalls and
>> Coxes of the world, although these great minds provide the canvas that the
>> normal people can draw upon.
>>
>> I now step off my soapbox and return to the normal world of getting my
>> children ready to go to Church.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> John Foster
>
> Well, 200.3.221.198/LinXqueak/1 should give you the small first step of your
> help and see how we look.
>
> The lab in photo was donated by IBM and we have another donated by Microsoft.
>
> Rest of Universities and students only have old computers like the one is
> running Mepis.
>
> I very curious where you live.
> It's a good way of caught students show they people in Switzerland, Germany,
> Italy, France, Japan, USA, etc have interest in Squeak.
>
> Maybe this is the start of friendship, like I develop with Jerome and Klaus ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Edgar
>
>
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