Hey there. Big news on public Linux usage in Lane County. NextStep secured a site for a digital literacy training center (DLTC) at Broadway and Oak in downtown Eugene. This is the first of our training centers - we hope to open one a year over the next four years. The next one will be in Springfield.
The DLTC is connected to our ePower Our Community program where we will be placing computers with our most marginalized youth students (via referrals from school districts). We will have 20 computers in our lab that have Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Windows XP installed on them. The computers are built, now we need the key - which well see in September. Epower Our Community = placing computers in student¹s homes, providing Internet access, and offering training at our digital literacy center for the youth and their parents/guardians. We will be placing Ubuntu computers with our ePower Our Community participants (the other operating systems are for business trainings that we hope to generate income form to support the Linux training). We are looking for volunteer trainers. Must be friendly and able to be patient with a wide variety of community members. Training classes with start out being evening (starting at 6:00 PM) and weekends classes. If you have the knowledge, the temperament, and the juice, we¹d love to have you. Our ePower intern, Nicole, would love to hear from you. You can reach Nicole at: nicole.borgaard (at) nextsteprecycling.org. Let¹s empower the masses together. Tell yer friends. lorraine
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