[room] Fwd: [school-discuss] A request on article references (was: Re: Anyone else seen this "The National Business Review: New Zealand Schools Go Open Source, Linux")

[Michael Shigorin]

	Hi!
Если ещё погуглить "UITN" -- то может стать понятно, к чему
клоню. :)

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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:21:11 -0700
From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself ix.netcom.com>
To: schoolforge-discuss schoolforge.net
Subject: [school-discuss] A request on article references (was: Re: Anyone else seen this "The National Business Review: New Zealand Schools Go Open Source, Linux")

on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:37:50AM -0500, Jeff Waddell (jefferydouglaswaddell gmail.com) wrote:
> Found on linuxtoday.com <http://linuxtoday.com>
> 
> http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005071401426NWSSPB
> 
> this morning.
> 
> Seems to me like this could be a good thing. What do you all think?

...OK, so the subject line actually *did* reference the article in
question, though following enough preemptory text that it was scrolled
off the visible part of my mail index view.

Suggestions when posting an article reference:

  - Post the URL.

  - Indicate in your subject line that this is a news or media
    reference.  "[News]" or "[Media]" are common on some Usenet groups.

  - Keep in mind that many news sources (The New York Times, The Age,
    the LA Times, The SJ Mercury News, Wall Street Journal) require
    registration or subscriptions for access.  Some of these (NYT) and
    others (the Economist, Yahoo news, Reuters) age-out their free
    content after a brief period (usually a week or so), meaning that
    those who check the list infrequently, or view archives, have *no*
    idea what you're talking about.

  - With the above in mind:

     - Post the article headline.

     - Post the article byline.

     - Post the article publication date.  Note that many online sources
       (including NZ's National Business Review) either don't put a date
       in the customary location (with the byline), or put it in a
       nonstandard location.

     - Post the article's original publication.  Particularly for
       syndicated / aggregated content sites (e.g.:  LinuxToday).

     - If you run across an article at an aggregator site / RSS feed, GO
       TO THE ORGINAL SOURCE (if possible).

     - Post a paragraph or so introducing the story.

In the case of this article, a considerate post would go to the original
source:

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12417&cid=3&cname=Technology
    
    New Zealand schools go open source, Linux
    Trading in Microsoft for Novell?
    (National Business Review 14-Jul-2005)
    
    Novell has signed a national agreement with the New Zealand Ministry
    of Education to provide all state and state-integrated schools with
    a range of Novell software, including SUSE Linux operating systems.

    Douglas HarrИ, senior ICT consultant from the Ministry of Education
    said, "A large number of New Zealand schools have been ardent Novell
    users for many years. This new agreement will allow those schools to
    upgrade to the latest versions of Novells wide range of server
    software at no cost.



Peace.

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