asbl EDUnet vzw

In early July 93, Giedo Custers, Michel Gillet, Andre Rombauts
and Louis Van Geel founded EDUnet.

EDUnet is a non-profit registered (asbl/vzw) association
independant from any educational authority. It has been set up
in order to give a wide e-mail access to teachers, students,
parents, etc - in fact to anyone interested in education
matters. The first large scale education e-mail project in
Belgium, DIDACnet, has been conceived on a school base rather
than on an individual one. EDUnet is opened to everyone either
located in a school or at home (1).

EDUnet shares the views of the K12net foudner, Jack Crawford:
move the mail to as many teachers, students and parents, as
quickly as possible and at the lowest cost possible. That's
why J. Crawford choose the Fidonet technology and network. In
the future the Fidonet solution might become less attractive
but for the moment it IS the only valuable solution for
schools, teachers and students.

To achieve his goal EDUnet refused to create a new "network"
using its own zone number and domain (2). Instead we are fully
supporting the K12net network. EDUnet will just add local - on
a European base - Echos that teachers, students and parents
will use to exchange ideas more easily. In fact EDUnet is the
core of a K12net Europe.

But EDUnet is not only a series of additional Echos. Just as
language or science teachers are gathering themselves in
private associations because of common interests, teachers -
but also students and parents - thinking that e-mail is a
wonderful teaching and learning tool decided to act in the
same way. EDUnet thus can be considered as a promotional
channel for e-mail usage in education.

If you are interested in taking part to our association or
simply want to get more information, please do send a netmail
to one of the members of the Board of Directors:

Giedo Custers,      2:292/104@fidonet.org, secretary for the
                    Dutch speaking part
Michel Gillet,      2:293/2401@fidonet.org, secretary for the
                    French speaking part
Andre Rombauts,     2:293/2206@fidonet.org, president
Louis Van Geel,     2:29/777@fidonet.org, treasurer

You can also get a full info package by requesting one of the
following files either on 2:293/2206@fidonet.org or
2:29/777@fidonet.org

EDUNET_DU           Dutch info package       (3)
EDUNET_EN           English                  (3)
EDUNET_FR           French
EDUNET_GE           German                   (3)



for asbl EDUnet vzw,

Andre Rombauts

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(1)  DIDACnet is an e-mail project initiated by sevaral local
     official education authorities and supported by the BBL
     bank. B-net is in charge of the technical aspect of this
     network. It is still in an experimental period. It first
     used a private Fidonet zone and domain but is now using
     existing Fidonet R29 nodes to carry mail to school-points
     listed in a private list.

(2)  By the way, there is in the United States an education
     network also called EDUNET, using a private zone number
     and domain. It has been organized by Jace Carlson who is
     also responsible for a Christian network.

(3)  Not yet -but soon- available. A message will be posted as
     soon as the other language packages are available.

EDUGI.ASC, 12.09.93