[adrian.mowrey at gmail.com: Hello,]

[Scott Balneaves]

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----- Forwarded message from "Adrian G. Mowrey" <adrian.mowrey at gmail.com> -----

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:44:31 -0400
From: "Adrian G. Mowrey" <adrian.mowrey at gmail.com>
To: Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca>
Subject: Hello,

When I was saying "we," I was referring to the Edubuntu community. I wanted
the Edubuntu community to try and take "my" idea farther. I think that the
Edubuntu operating system is the appropriate project related to education
that actually will be able to succeed at making this happen (Universal
Education). U.N. doesn't care who makes it happen, as long as it's happening
by 2015 or sooner if possible.

As far as that International center goes, I imagine it being an organization
through which a lot of things are offered (money for helping to build new
schools,  to offer the technology needed to access this educational project,
to transportation, etc.). If we can't make all of that to happen that soon,
we have to build a system that is very user-friendly, very easy for the
children and adults that need a primary education to learn from their own
homes. Also we'll hire specialists from the different subjects that are
taught in primary schooling to build those unique learning materials, and
all we can do (programmers) is to develop different things (a game that
relates to different things of each subject, an audio-video recording, the
books themselves, etc.) that will actually make it really easy for the
students of any country and of any knowledge to understand even without a
teacher being next to them. Do you understand? What we can do to offer a
little bit of training, is to teach the schools how to use the materials
(hardware and software) and then have sessions of teaching about them every
other month. Once they learn, they will show to their brothers, sisters,
parents, neighbors, etc. Or even making audio-video recordings of how to use
the hardware and software for every language. It's pretty hard to be on your
own without a teacher, but we have to make it happen no matter what it
takes. Even if we aren't able to build schools without funds, or offer free
transportation, I'm sure that we can build an information system that will
make it happen.

Haile Gebrselassie is a famous Ethiopian long-distance runner. He said that
when he was young, he had to run 14km to go to school and 14km back. :-( We
can't do that with everybody. It's too much, we have to develop a system in
which they can save time and money in their lives.

I would be really glad to make part of the Edubuntu community. I have always
liked education, and I'm so glad that right now I have the opportunity to
help develop something that will help everybody around the world.

-- 
Sincerely,

Adrian G. Mowrey

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