[CLUE-Admin] Fw: Item for website news section (Sat Aug 2 2003 09:17 pm)

[Lynn Danielson]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>Well, folks. Whaddaya think?
>

As long as Matt, Alex, Charlie and the rest are prepared to handle all 
of the
logistics associated with this "partnership", then I'm ok with 
supporting them
with a blurb on our web page.

>I can't say I'm particularly fond of the "partnership" language.
>

Can you suggest an alternative?  I guess I don't know what the partnership
entails other than Charlie's assciation with the Sierra Club.  Would saying
CLUE members or CLUE volunteers in association or conjunction with
Sierra Club volunteers be preferrable to you.  What in particular makes you
uncomfortable with the partnership language?

>Begin forwarded message:
>
>Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:17:46 -0600
>From: Charlie Oriez <charlie.oriez at rmc.sierraclub.org>
>
>Some CLUE members (Alex Young, Matt Gushee, a few others) are working with
>the Sierra Club to accept donations of used computers, install linux, and
>get them into Denver schools.  Depending on whether or not CLUE is willing
>to be an official sponsor or not, I'd like a version of the following to
>appear on your site.
>
>(CLUE, in partnership with | Some CLUE members working with) the Sierra
>Club Foundation (is | are) accepting donations of used computers,
>installing linux on them, and donating them to Denver area schools.  This
>new program will be modeled after the StRUT program <http://strut.org>
>that has put 22,000 donated computers into Oregon schools and kept 1400
>tons of hardware out of landfills.  To volunteer for the program or donate
>large quantities of computers, contact charlie.oriez at rmc.sierraclub.org 
>