Hello, After reading several articles on "competing with open source" I found that one of the common mistakes that we make is to forget to talk about the problem that our project solves. With that in mind I wrote these pages (see attached) in order to frame that idea and to create a basis for marketing our work this year. The world's economy is at it's near record worst and schools are still being asked to do more with less. Many of our projects can help them shift budget costs into budget surplus's , they just don't know it. please tell me what you think of the paper , and help formulate the marketing plan around this idea. -- James Tremblay Volunteer openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education