Zane Gilmore wrote:
Hey there,
Howdy,
just got a phone call from a high school teacher in Oxford.
He says he has a bunch of young geeks that are interested in Linux and
wanted some advice on how to get them started.
I have spoken with this teacher too, on an earlier occasion. Wednesdays
10am-2pm I am the volunteer running the Green Room currently, and he
rang seeking ornithological guidance for another student (Lois
Griffiths, Ilam electorate, is our Forest & Bird expert). But the Greens
can help this student group too.
I've installed a P3-600, 128MB w/5GB each for K/Ubuntu to run from,
Internet-sharing from a WinME dialup box (that could be the first in a
chain of conversions, with sufficient uptake). The GNU/Linux box is for
Greens training and public use - a *nix netcafe and recycling workshop
is where this really wants to go. (Nandor was here Thursday night, so
I'm up with the IT strategy needs now & have met local non-LUG *nix
users with whom to start work.)
Last week a tutor dropped by with students from
http://www.unlimited.school.nz - they taught me "say" from the Mac
world, and I taught them $echo - they stayed for c80 minutes. A bit more
RAM would sharpen up the terminal, which provides a useful selection
comparison between KDE and GNOME (my loyalty hasn't been swayed).
So, there's a public *nix interface accessible 4 hours daily Mon-Fri -
send along your friends and contacts at will for free previews! Even
better, get involved if you can. I am convinced that the best thing we
can do for Linux is to introduce its next 5% of the user marker, and
that this is the surest way to proceed.
- I'll ring that teacher back this Wednesday Zane.
Because I'm so flat out right now I pointed him at www.clug.org.nz
and told him to join up with the list and ask for help.
So keep your eyes peeled and be nice to him :-)
PS
Sorry I didn't get to the meeting last night.
Did it go well?
A fantastically informative show - everything we need to win over the
media generation/s.
Thursday May 4th, 7.30pm @Sydenham Community Hall, we'll do an overview
of Ubuntu GNU/Linux for web publishing work, compare it to FreeBSD in
terms of packages and update maintenance, and answer basic questions
from the floor. This would be an evening most useful for beginners to
attend - advance notice.
Cheers & hoping to see you there,
--
Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>, on:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.10 free OS, 2.6.12-9-k7 kernel, GNOME 2.12.1 desktop
OpenOffice.org 1.9.129, Mozilla 1.7.12 email client & web browser
GIMP 2.2.8 graphics, gedit 2.12.1 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 file transfer
