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| DATE | 2003-05-21 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Education and more read me
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Where is the meeting? Kings Games?
-----Original Message-----
From: Selso DaSilva [mailto:selsok-at-yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:36 PM
To: hangout-at-nylxs.com; info-at-tkny.com
Cc: ireinitz-at-gia.edu; Paul Robert Marino; Charles Nardino; Billy; jude
fox
Subject: [hangout] Education and more read me
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
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