"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <mad...@li.org> writes: > > Two weeks ago I went to Souhegan High School in Amherst to vote, and > while there I looked up their computer technical person (they are mostly > a windows shop, but also have MACs) and offered to do a presentation to > the students and faculty on FOSS and free culture.
Awesome! > I was warned that these were "high school students" and it was "hard to > keep their attention". Hilarious :) > I started with a slide that showed five people that did amazing > things with FOSS before they were 22 (one as young as 11), most of > whom are now very successful and one of whom was a former student at > Souhegan. There are, I think, quite a few of us--SHS students who became wildly successful at young ages due largely to our involvement with FOSS. Several of us even got to skip college, going straight from SHS to success--though I don't know how kosher it would be to bring *that* up inside a high school... :) Some of these cases can, additionally, be traced more-or-less directly back to some contribution that you made--thank you (immensely) for your continued work on this. This is immensely valuable--to the kids, to the adults that they become, to *their* eventual children, and to the industry (and world) that they go on to inhabit and create. > They have a nice lab filled with relatively new machines. I pointed out > that with the correct software we could teach either high performance > computing or "cloud" computing. ... or virtually anything else :) > For others on this list that might want to participate, these are paid > teaching courses, and while the pay is probably not gigantic, you may > find that courses you have already put together are easily > repackaged...and courses that you give may lead to other business. In > any case, these courses would be for next fall, so you have time to > think about it. > > As the students get more involved, I think we may have some "new blood" > coming into the group. I found them very intelligent, very polite and > very thoughtful. > > Friday I am going to visit Milford High school and offer the same talk. > > Next week I will hit the Community College on Amherst St. in Nashua. This may be a stupid question, but... is there some sort of summary available for your presentation? I don't want to ask you to spend time transcribing it or anything like that, but if you have slides or something...? I always find openings particularly interesting for study.... -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/