[BALUG-Talk] Eagle Scout, Teen talks, BerkeleyTIPGlobal was-Re: anybody have spare parts?

[john_re]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:36:22 -0700, "Vincent Malmrose"
<genundoryu at gmail.com> said:
> Do any of you have extra computer parts laying around you're not using? I
> am
> working on my Eagle scout project and need donations of various computer

Great project! Congratulations. :)  - I am an Eagle scout. Back in 1975
a guy came to our troop, & lead the training for the Computer merit
badge. I should look up the current requirements, & see if they talk
about GNU software.  That should be mandatory in todays world.  What is
the situation with GNU(Linux) in the computer merit badge topics?

I noted a month ago some newly adult scout leader was working to make
GNU sw for the Boy Scouts of America.

> parts (specs below). I will be upgrading the KIPP San Fransisco Bay
> Academy's computer lab and installing Edubuntu on all the computers.
> Currently the lab runs Ubuntu over the network but the computers are too
> slow and the kids are starting to say that, "Linux is slow". Not true! We

Love that "Not true!" :)  Maybe you could get together with the ACCRC
(What org does computer reuse for SanFrancisco county?) & get a Beowulf
going at your school - they do graphics rendering on theirs.
http://www.beowulf.org/

> need better computers, that's all. This will help bolster and aid the
> Linux
> community by h aving the whole school continue to use Linux.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Vincent Malmrose, fellow Linux user

You might want to check out this:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q3/005021.html
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2674

Teenbuntu: Reaching Out to Teens
Andrew Harris (Teens on Linux.org)
4:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

This talk is given by Andrew “Tuna” Harris, the teenaged founder of
TeensOnLinux.org, and Samuel Baldwin, a 15-year-old hacker from Boston.
It will focus on three main points: why we should get teens involved in
open source, getting them interested, and making freedom in software
matter to them.

Teens are a great market for open source. They love community and the
“breaking away from the Man” sort of feeling, so they are quick to adopt
alternatives to what everyone else uses (take that society!). As
students, they usually aren’t too busy to find some time to contribute
something. It is also the age of learning and exploration of new ideas.
Getting involved in Ubuntu and FOSS is a great way to learn something
new.

Maybe when you are done you could give a talk about your project.  I
invite you to speak to the Berkeley-TIP-Global attendees.  It could be
as short as a 3min or 5 min or 15 minute lightning talk.  Heck - you
could even come August 2 & make a request for donations for your
project.  You might get a world wide response. :)
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal

I'd categorize your talk under "Social" or "Hardware", perhaps.

=====
Berkeley-TIP is an informal group for people interested in learning
about, using & creating GNU & BSD type software.

There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of events:
1) TALKS        Talks by various speakers (stream video globally)
2) INSTALLFEST  Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software.
3) POTLUCK      Bring $5 or food to share: eat, chat (optional)
4) PROGRAMMING PARTY     Write sw on your. or a group. project

Talks schedule August 2 (Pacific Daylight Savings Time): 

===== TALKS/VIDEOS/GROUP_MEETINGS AGENDA:

1000A DISTROS - GNU(Linux), BSD, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD OpenBSD
      SOCIAL - EFF, FSF
1130A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - Python, PERL, CC++, PHP
      DATABASES - MySQL, MSQL, BerkeleyDB  100P GUI's - GNOME, KDE
 100P GUI's - GNOME, KDE
      NETWORKING - internet, Apache, web browser, voip
 230P BUSINESS - CRM, ERP, SugarCRM, spreadsheets
      EDUCATION/ACADEMIC - OLPC, SciPy
 400P HARDWARE - OLPC, phone
      PERSONAL APPLICATIONS - K/Open-Office, photography, audio, video
 530P ART - Creative Commons, music, visual, Wikipedia