I can see me giving a Ted Talk someday with this speech; after we tone it down and make the language more concise. so tell us chris, how did you make such a difference in the educational community.... On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Sandwhich Eyes <sandwhicheyes at gmail.com> wrote: > please be brutally honest! > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Sandwhich Eyes <sandwhicheyes at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> i have my opening statement done. it may be a bit overconfident/smug or >> not. i have to be careful with my head injuries to not just say the first >> thing that comes to into my head. i would like to put up a website using >> something like hostinger to document the process to assist others who may >> have the same opportunity that i have been provided with. >> >> Let me start by saying that in a way, I am an educator. I started a >> nonprofit 501c3 to give native cultures in the western hemisphere access to >> education, technology, and commerce. We started a diabetes awareness >> program for which we had booths set up at places such as The Science Museum >> of Minnesota. There is also a syndicated radio show named Indigenous in >> Music that was formed from this project that was set up and designed by me. >> (Currently being made weekly using the same setup I made, but done by a 15 >> year old Native American boy with remarkable quality.) >> >> At the chamber of commerce, IICOC (Indigenous Internet Chamber of >> Commerce), I received donated computers, mostly used, and would DBAN the >> hard drives to completely remove the previous contents and install a >> variety of different operating systems on them such as Microsoft Windows, >> Mac, FreeBSD, but mostly Linux. Most of our volunteers were unfamiliar with >> computers. >> >> Eventually the people who had been accessing the Windows machines would >> go onto a Linux machine. I would frequently hear, where is this specific >> program? When my learning Linux volunteers would switch to Windows they >> would ask, where is this specific option; as most of them had moved from >> computer to computer on the different distributions I had choose to install >> of Linux as our main operating systems they had used different programs >> already to do the same thing. For example Open Office and ABI Word, Star >> Office, Libre Office, etc. all do the same thing INCLUDING that which >> Microsoft Word/Office have to offer. >> >> It seems as though closed source systems like Apple and Windows provide, >> as an example, frequently will not offer the options that Open Source >> software offers. Part of the reason for this is financial. Microsoft >> Corporation pays many people in order to bring you Microsoft Windows and >> its related products and adhere to budgets put in place; limiting the >> options that many people may want/need. If the source code is open source >> it provides a means for these people to add the options. Then if the choose >> to offer them to the community they can merge it upstream in the next >> software release; which happens many times faster than Microsoft offers >> (sometimes daily instead of every few years as in Microsoft Office), while >> providing the flexibility to use the same software on almost every platform >> imaginable including Microsoft Windows. Bill Gates would have a hard time >> with all of his money we gave him to do the same thing that an open source >> community can do in a very short amount of time. If this doesn’t make sense >> to you or you feel I am wrong, I encourage you to spend some time and look >> around. You need to understand that most of what you see is running Linux. >> Your smart TV’s, your cable box, your android phone, wireless access >> points, printers, modern ATM machines, most web services, drones, mail >> sorting machines, most electronic medical equipment, ………………… Keep looking >> around and investigate the influence or complete use of open source in it. >> It is everywhere, and as educators you really need to understand that in >> real life people will be using Linux and other open source software in >> their daily lives; which translates to jobs. >> >> From organizational structure, to the people who freely give, providing >> us with the many different communities, open source is what made most >> everything we see today. Open source is a very welcoming educational, and >> transparent way for everyone who wants to become involved in every single >> aspect of designing, building, and/or using software and hardware that is >> available; or that they have dreamed up, providing us with innovation and >> change in ways that a small group of executives with access to code and >> schematics may never have. >> >> Open source has been around since the very beginning of computing whether >> it was through collaboration of different entities or under the somewhat >> specific name of open source, and will continue to provide people with the >> opportunity to use this information to learn about how the world works >> around them; and if you so desire to build a closed source business with >> it, as the licensing provides people with this and many many opportunities >> to use it however they can imagine. Microsoft and Apple both provide the >> open source community with philanthropy and code; on occasion. Many >> commercial enterprises offer support including financial to the open source >> communities on an ongoing basis; frequently because their business was >> built using open source hardware and software. There are companies who >> offer support to the end users of said communities as well as a very large >> number of people available at any time to answer questions freely and with >> passion. There is a symbiotic relationship between the 2 (open and closed >> source) and to ignore the open source community and Linux is an act of >> ignorance at this point in my speech. To avoid research and use of these >> technologies in an education environment, other than universities who >> already incorporate and innovate these technologies, would be a choice I >> hope no one listening to this or reading this after my speech will make. >> >> It should be noted that our government is the primary funder and founder >> of these open source projects and brought us modern day computing as we >> know it. This is not a business exclusive relationship, but one that >> crosses international, cultural, and civil borders and is comprised of >> educational, business, government, and civilian peoples from every walk of >> life with varying interests and goals united together. >> >> >> none of this needs to be in here, it is only my first draft. i can scrap >> it and start over as i often do. >> >> i am open to all criticisms as this is important to the other kids in the >> school out here (potentially other schools); my kids will have plenty of >> skills regardless of any end results. >> >> *This is so fun!* >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Regarding augmented reality, I have been working on it for a while now. >>> There >>> is a LOT to it, not just hardware, btu good hardware is key. >>> >>> I used the Microsoft product (name escapes me) and will be working with >>> the >>> Oculus Rift DK2 on Saturday. My searches for Linux software and drivers >>> that >>> are necessary in order to use the ready-made API show that there is >>> little >>> out there at the moment. If anyone has any info that I should be looking >>> at, >>> please share. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/20160825/5971d912/attachment.html>