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| DATE | 2015-02-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Community Based Education Programs we can emulate
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On 02/10/2015 07:17 PM, Elfen Magix wrote:
> Seeing the PDF, I see a major problem - its it stupid NYC Dept. of Education courses that I developed in the mid/late 1980s and all those bastages took it and took credit for my work.
>
> In short, the mayor does not want community centers to be giving out technology courses without some sort of give to a school. It was bad when I left it, it is worse now. But to make how, this is what we need:
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> 1) Location with machines.
> 2) Courses and course material.
> 3) something they can take home like projects, and a certificate which they can use for getting a so-called job.
>
> Thus Linux or not, the courses need to be:
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> - Hardware setup and implementation
> - System Diagnostics and Repair
> - Security of systems (personal and servers)
> - Internet technology and programming
>
> Then we can go into:
> - Robotics (Arduino hardware)
> - Robotics (Raspberry Pi hardware)
>
> Though the Raspberry Pi is Linux on an ARM processor, it is 5X more expensive than the Arduino Amtel Microcontroller. Ebay has the R-Pi for $40, and the Arduino (Chinese Clones) for $8. And the Raspberry Pi needs other components to make it run, the Ardunio does not - outside of the additional pieces (not counting wires, breadboards, servoes, batteries, etc.). For a class of 20 students this would require $600 in hardware.
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> http://www.raspberrypi.org
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> http://www.arduino.cc
>
> ~Fernando
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> - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> (From email error with headers)
>
> What hackers meeting?
>
> What is his program? Where is his program?
>
> I've been doing community based computer training since the
> 1980s, but it is now that those in control want their palms greased and
> their names recognized as founders when they did nothing, is what is stopping
> me. The whole shit is corrupt.
>
> But if anyone want to start one, find me and we can sit down
> to discuss the details of what is involved and how much is costs.
>
> When and where is the next meeting?
How about meeting on Tuesday the 17th at the Hackers Meeting at CCNY and
we can talk about this.
Then I need another meeting for the Journal, but I hope to get that one
in on a Sunday during the daytime.
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Ruben
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
6:00 PM
CCNY -at- NAC 1/211
138th and Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
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Ruben
>
> ~Fernando.
>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> On Sun, 2/8/15, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>>
>>> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Community Based Education Programs we can emulate
>>> To: "hangout"
>>> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2015, 8:28 PM
>>>
>>> I ran into this guy at the hackers meeting and he has a working program
>>> in the Bronx that is getting education and employment to participants,
>>> and he is teaching GNU classes (not the list in the PDF attachment).
>>>
>>> I'd like to see how we can emulate this since it brings in income and is
>>> successful.
>>>
>>> Ruben
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