Hi, It appears that I made a mistake. We, in fact, accept Educational Textbook Project since now 5 month, and your project seems to fit in this category.
But, since your project does not seems to be part of the GNU project yet, we cannot accept that project name for it. There are some non-GNU programs with names such as gnuplot and gnuboy, but they are not hosted in Savannah. In the projects we host we want to keep the distinction between GNU and non-GNU projects, to avoid confusion. If your project is accepted into the GNU project, you can change its name later on. Also, Savannah's mission is to host free software projects, and we want the public to think of them as free software projects. A project name that says "open" will tend to lead people to think of the project as "open source" instead of "free software". We would be glad if you accept to use "free" instead of "open" in your project name. Finally, while you describe a specific goal (producing a set of free high school science texts in accordance with the South African syllabus), the name of the project you chose seems to me very general, not really reflecting the nature of your project, your specific goal. You are welcome to resubmit your project, and please accept my apology. Please register your project once more with the changes mentioned above. The way we handle pending projects makes it difficult to keep track of projects that have been answered but have not been approved yet, so we erase them and we ask you to register the project again every time some change has to be done to the registration, and users might have to register their projects several times. Thank you for your understanding. Some users find it useful to use the big re-registration URL provided in the acknowledgment e-mail you received after registration. Regards, Ref: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2003-05/msg00717.html -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
