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[Joe Rowe]

Hi.   My name is Joe Rowe

    I teach a basic computer course to 7th graders in a public school in Portland, Oregon, USA.

    It is thrilling to be here.  I'm new to ubuntu which we use in the green party office in Portland.   At home I use a debian distrubition from http://www.freegeek.org   where I volunteer.   We properly recycle dead parts and give back to the public high spec computers with debian linux.      Before teaching I was the IT director at a school with 300 computers and 1200 humans.  

    I'm really glad  http://www.moodle.org is part of the specification because I use moodle.  I even use my moodle site to help to explain moodle  http://roweclassroom.com

  I hope to help testing some of the boring stuff like printing and things that drive kids and teachers nuts.   I speak Spanish and I hope I can help make edubuntu work for immigrants and the illiterate.    In other words the English version would help language learners of any age.
 
Like David W. I'm excited about the many strenghts of  Skolelinux/Debian-Edu and Edubuntu.

Peace,  Joe