RE: Meeting A&O && SHS

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

I'm all for the students petitioning the school to allow us to 
do Linux Mentors there. It's been very frustrating trying to 
find places to have Linux Mentors since no one is willing to
commit to more than once a month which isn't enough
time for what we want to do. Also, it is possible that once
the computer lab at the research and collections center
is finished we will be able to hold the classes there,
but there's no guarantee on that. Two other leads that I 
have, but have yet to fully explore is getting the local IBM
office to sponsor the group (unfortunately our contact for 
this is no longer in the area), or working with UIS (although
I think the university is a bit out of the way for you guys).

If any of the kids at the school have any other ideas on 
where to have it let me know. 

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:54 AM
> To:	luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject:	Re: Meeting A&O && SHS
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 04:53:14PM -0500, Burke, Jason wrote:
> > 
> > I've stayed away from UIS and Lincoln Land because they are
> > a bit out of town and kind of a pain to get to, but aside from the
> > museum I agree with you that this is probably our best bet (now
> > it's just a matter of contacting the right person). At one time we
> > were hopeful that Springfield High School would be willing to 
> > host it, but the few dealings that I have had with the high school 
> > have lead me to believe that they aren't interested in assisting us.
> 
> Sadly, SHS is never too open to allow access to its facilities, even
> though it
> does have a lab full of (slow 386) networked Linux machines with a decent
> server (K6 266).  With SHS, something like an installfest would more than
> likely out of the question due to its not having a direct link to
> education or
> something similar; understandable, I guess.  
> 
> At the meeting tonight, I brought a fellow student from SHS, Derek
> Vincent,
> who has been learning Linux for about a month or two previously.  His
> comments
> were a mix of positive and negative.  He seemed amazed when Steve was able
> to
> hotswap and access a flash memory card under Linux without doing anything
> really complicated-looking, as well as seeing some of the more end-user
> office
> applications.  From what I gathered, he really didn't care too much for
> the
> talk about people and programmers seen aroud, as he probably knew little
> about
> them, or didn't know what they had done to appreciate seeing them.  There
> were
> a few other things he mentioned in the car, but at this point in time, my
> mind
> has become muddled. :)
> 
> One last thing he commented on was Linux Mentors.  I know that there is
> student interest in a Linux Mentors group at SHS.  It's possible that I
> can
> get signatures of at least 10 people interested in the project and submit
> a
> request for consideration to Dr. Chiles, the principal at SHS.  Jason, if
> you'd like to do this, just give me a holler and I'll put together a small
> draft of what could be submitted and allow you to modify it as needed.
> 
> 
> --Michael
> 
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