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[News] Another Microsoft Executive Heads for a Part-Time Trust/Government Role

Local Microsoft Executive Elected to the California Science Center Foundation
Board of Trustees

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| The Board of Trustees is made up of business, philanthropic and
| community leaders who support the Science Center's mission of
| stimulating curiosity and inspiring science learning in everyone by
| creating fun, memorable experiences.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/060921/0165685.html


Also see the recent news (leak):

Changing the Report, After the Vote

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| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners Friday
| evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph in which
| the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open source software
| and open content projects in higher education. The paragraph read like 
| this:
| 
| "The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote
| the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities
| and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of 
| educational  materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and 
| educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and 
| serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives 
| such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project, 
| and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal 
| access both to general knowledge and to higher education."
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http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission

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