[osi-edu-discuss] PLEASE READ DRAFT RESPONSE Re: Introducing the TWIN Community

[Gururaj B.S.]

Hi, Andrew,

I just read your response to my introductory message posted at
http://members.opensource.org/pipermail/osi-edu-discuss/Week-of-Mon-20090223/000006.html.

Also, I subscribed to this list to follow these discussions.

I am not talking about ads here.  We're a totally non-commercial
community, so the ad part is ruled out.  And I am not even hinting at
link sharing.

Great to learn that you are starting an education initiative.  That's
the kind of collaboration I had in mind when I sent you my previous
message.  What I am proposing is that we (TWIN) as a community of
writers join hands with your community to work on one of your projects
that need documentation support.  As you said, we could contribute to
your education project.  You can offer attribution to our writers,
while I can make sure that TWIN also recognizes such volunteers in the
writing community.  In addition, job seekers in the writing community
can use such documentation (whatever writing they are doing for the
education project) as sample writing when they meet with a prospective
employer.  Your writing work gets done, and our writers benefit from
the opportunity.

This is the kind of collaboration I am proposing.  Please consider and
revert to me as soon as you can.

Thanks,
Gururaj
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You said:

From: Andrew Oliver <acoliver at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Subject: PLEASE READ DRAFT RESPONSE Re: Introducing the TWIN Community
To: osi at opensource.org


Intent: No...maybe we'll have ways to give you ads in the future if
you give us money....but we also could use help with education and
here is how you accomplish some of your goal by helping us with
that...

Hi Gururaj,

OSI does not presently engage in link sharing style arrangements.
Moreover, since open source projects are independently operated, while
there are probably thousands of projects that could use this kind of
help, they are not directly connected to our site anyhow.  We will be
launching a sponsorship program that may include a link program, once
we launch it we will contact you regarding sponsorship opportunities.

... need ideas here ...
OSI is launching a new education initiative that could benefit from
experienced writers.  An obvious approach would be to participate and
contribute to the project from email addresses @twin-india.org.
Presumably we will be able to offer attribution in the materials that
we're developing.

Thanks,

Andrew C. Oliver
Board Observer
Open Source Initiative