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Hello friends,<BR>
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I know it is a little bit late to propose any change in the draft, but I think 'Last week you visited America [...]' should be 'Recently you visited America [...]' or 'Some weeks ago you visited America [...]' or something similar.<BR>
Anyway, the letter looks good. The initial draft was very soft and it may be convenient at times to use a more direct style. I think it is very appropriate to include the reference to the current situation in the streets of Turkey.<BR>
I think the success of all the proposals that we can make on issues related to investments like this in technology for students are very important right now. The future is being played in schools... and proprietary software manufacturers know it.<BR>
Yesterday I read this news: <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lausd-chooses-ipads-for-pilot-20130618,0,6957151.story">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lausd-chooses-ipads-for-pilot-20130618,0,6957151.story</A><BR>
Bad news. All students should have the opportunity to learn to enjoy the benefits of free software.<BR>
Going back to the letter for Mr. Erdogan, it seems there is a GNU/Linux distribution called Pardus [1][2] developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [3][4]. I think it could be a good idea to try to send a copy of the letter to the group in charge of the development of that GNU/Linux distribution.<BR>
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Best regards<BR>
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Vicen<BR>
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[1] <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_%28operating_system%29">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_%28operating_system%29</A><BR>
[2] <A HREF="https://www.pardus.org.tr/">https://www.pardus.org.tr/</A><BR>
[3] <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_and_Technological_Research_Council_of_Turkey">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_and_Technological_Research_Council_of_Turkey</A><BR>
[4] <A HREF="http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en">http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en</A><BR>
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El mié, 19-06-2013 a las 14:28 +0200, Sam Tuke escribió:
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My draft of the opening paragraph is done:
<A HREF="https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/MrErdogan">https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/MrErdogan</A>
In the next few hours Lucile will prepare the letter for publication, so
please make any final suggestions / changes before 15.30 CEST today!
Sam.
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