Thanks for your input and enthusiasm BB. Nicole will add you to the list of potentials!
From: BB <[email protected]> Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:25:01 -0700 To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux for the masses-wanna be a teacher? At some point in time I would like to give a class on Blender 3D. It's a ways down the road, but I'm sure that it's a Killer App for some kid. It requires OpenGL video cards, I have a few that I could donate (nothing in the screamer category, as in speed.) Growing up poor, I probably could relate...something for the back burner On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Lorraine Kerwood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <http://nextsteprecycling.org> > . > > Let¹s empower the masses together. Tell yer friends. > > lorraine > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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