tom, i was the one who built the gray hoverman antenna with you that one time, great memory. i was waiting for you to put that out there. i am foggy on it and have a good jumping off point for that now. I don't want to overwhelm them but if they are able to handle it i will work on that too. Would be fun to see if we could get some involvement from city hall; i will have to go to a meeting about it sometime. linda thank you for your advice about getting someone on the inside. I will look into that. Rotary International taught me to find advocates to help with the various causes. i hadn't thought of it in that light until you mentioned it. Iznogoud i love ted ttalks and watch them with my children all the time. i will make sure i watch that and double check for more goodies. matthew i will include that information. they asked many questions about community when i spoke of it. seems a focal point. i would like to have the political structure of the linux and bsd communities available for them to review. i remember reading the bsd information at one point. i am going to spend some time today to try and find information about the variety of ways you can volunteer your time to the various projects that are out there. beside the speech i want to leave them with loads of information on the live thumb drives i will leave them. i don't know if i want to push Ubuntu, it just seems the easiest; ideas? On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom <tompoe at meltel.net> wrote: > As you know, the FCC recently reclassified the Internet as a public > utility. The new game takes away the corporate argument against community > broadband infrastructure. With that in mind, and the notion of a community > emergency broadband mesh network is now a viable expectation for potential > disaster communications. Every school with a computer lab could have a > couple nodes in place for educational purposes, and administered through > Open Source platform. The kids can create a volunteer club and discover > how to expand the broadband infrastructure out into the community. To make > things easy, use the Meraki units as the nodes. NYCMESH.NET is the big > picture. If you or anyone wants to flesh this idea out, I'll pledge to > come up with 2 nodes for a demo. > > Tom > > On 08/22/2016 12:00 PM, Linda Kateley wrote: > > I started working with my school district about 10 years ago. The problems > I find there are always political and never about technology. > > What worked for me is to find one champion in the system that speaks the > administrations language. I found there were a ton of people who wanted to > know, just not at the top. > > I introduced scratch to the elementary STEM school about 5 years ago, > https://scratch.mit.edu/. It was the districts first involvement with > opensource or community. The project has been very very successful and it > opened the doors to more. But then they hired a new superintendent that > thought it was stupid so..that happened ;( > > linda > > On 8/21/16 10:43 AM, Sandwhich Eyes wrote: > > I have already given one presentation at the Blair Taylor School with > the principal and an IT guy and have been asked to give a follow up talk to > them and the head of the IT department. > They had macbook air for the older kids and ipads for the younger ones. > They bring these home at the end of the school day. This time they decided > to go with cromebooks. It one of the best.. rated or testing, can't think > of an appropriate word, but with the quality of the teachers out here i am > pretty sure they could give my kids sticks and a box of sand and they would > still be well prepared for life on their own/college. I am 100% positive > they will be much better off if they can learn without restrictions from > open source hardware, software, classes (like MIT offers open courseware) > and the ability to choose, to not be scolded for breaking some license > agreement or for reading and modifying code should that be an interest. I > want them to have Linux. > I have gave a compelling argument in the last meeting. This time I want > to have as many resources available to provide for them, including reasons > why schools frequently choose to not use Linux. Anything will help. I had > quite the presentation last time and the IT guy didn't know what Unix or > BSD 4.4 was; or Linux, BSD, Solaris. Seems Ubuntu provides computers > reloaded with Linux and tablets so how they didn't find anything about open > source or Linux/BSD/ETC is beyond me. I gave them a live Ubuntu OS on a > thumb drive. I wanted to make some more and use persistence to load up some > information to give to the IT people who are possibly way under informed, > to give them plenty of time on their own to absorb what open source has to > offer; mostly community! > They asked many questions about community. Yes we work together and > keep our favorite distributions alive often without corporate support! > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- > You cannot be a Republican and support universal health care. Are you a Republican? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160822/a2eb4708/attachment.html>