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DATE | 2003-05-21 |
FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Education and more read me
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Please schedule the meetings on the announcement list and the calander
Thanx
Ruben
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:35:45AM -0700, Selso DaSilva wrote: > > > > I've remained silent the discussions on the > educational committee due to being very busy. But a > meeting will posted for Thursday May 29th 2003 at > 6:30pm - 9:30pm. I am listing what has been done so > far by the committee and what needs to be done. More > will be listed and discussed at the meeting as i > remember. if you like to he people can email me at > selsok-at-nylxs.com > > What Has Been Done > > 1 Our contact at Concord : > Rob as most of you who are involved in the educational > committee is our contact who has helped and continue > to help us 1st understand the of the city's > educational system, 2nd Make allies in the educational > community, 3rd He got us the opportunity to be a part > of the alternative technology conference that allowed > us to make connections and gather information on the > (for lack of a better word) ignorance of teachers, > teaching technology. > > 2 NYLXS has been able to make contact with people in > the old board of education and they would like to help > us. a list of names will be posted later > > 3 NYLXS education committee head Selso DaSilva will be > giving free classes on computer repair - networking on > the lower east side as an outreach project to get more > attention drawn to the Free Software community. > > 4 NYLXS are having talks with NY computer technology > USA, corp a computer whole sale and retail store that > would like to help us educate people in the community. > They have a basement that they would be willing to let > us use. > > 5 NYLXS are having talks with PC Learn > (www.pclearn.com) to work out a deal to use there > facility to do classes. (the idea $300 per students we > make sure we get 10 that is $3000. $800 goes to the > teacher, $1000 goes to NYLXS, $200 for the education > committee piety cash fund and $1000 to the facility.) > > 6 3 out of 12 Free tutorial articles to help with more > outreach has been written. 1 on the GIMP, 1 One on 3d > and one on Open office > > 7 Talks with computer companies and any company that > would like to donate computer hardware to NYLXS are > in the work. > > 8 the creation of NYLXS cd labels for the purpose of > advertising NYLXS > (www.nylxs.com/docs/edu_files/nylxs_knoppix.sxw) > > 9 Thank you Dave for the Draft proposal for the > teachers > > 10 A draft educational proposal has been written and > posted > > What Needs to be done > > 1 At concord: > Rob is going to allow us to put up a demo splash dot > server, if anyone would like to help, and find > prewritten code that we can use would be helpful. > > 2 The arrangement of free demo classes to the public. > > 3 A review for a Course layout incorporating the > current classes and creating a few more. > > 4 A creation of tests for our classes so we can > certify people and show companies that we are a > serious institution > > 5 A serious though on buying CD and labels > > 6 Fine tune the proposals for the BOE > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > ____________________________ > NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene > Fair Use - > because it's either fair use or useless.... > NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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