[DC LoCo] As the new year begins, is there anything we can do about our website?

[WBIX media training]

Regarding our class graduation...happy new year to all!!!
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Press Advisory…For Immediate Release                                                        December
17, 2008                                   


Contacts: Jay Marx–Peoples MEDIA Center, Inc. 202/368-4690 

                  Sahil Sinha--INO Solutions, Inc. – 703/887-1032 

Petworth “Boot-Up Camp”

bridging the Digital Divide one person at a time

offering Ward 4 locals and grassroots media makers

FREE computer classes – and free computers!

 

WHAT:      Inviting you to the Class Graduation
followed by a Party

WHEN:     Saturday, December 20th     1:00 pm

WHERE:   

                  4132
Georgia Avenue, NW   WDC  20011

                     between Upshur & Taylor, 4 blocks North of
Petworth  

                     green line metro station, Bus #70/71/62

BACKGROUND: For
the first time ever, nearly 30 Petworth residents, homeless activists,
reporters and teenagers get to take their computers home for having taken a 2
weeks free computer class. After learning the history of open source free
software, and how to use Linux, research the internet, download open office suite
and use it, email a friend, create a website, and publish to the net they are
GRADUATING!!!  Each will take home a
computer for free, just in time for the holidays.

The class, a “Boot-Up Camp”
targeting underprivileged students of all ages, is committed to support people
in attaining computer literacy, fast. Within a couple of hours on the first
day, the mentors—Sahil Sinha and Scott Anderson of INO Solutions, Inc.—had a
basement class room buzzing with excitement about newly learned skills and a
clear commitment to technological empowerment. Later that day, one of the class
members spoke up in the Center’s weekly DC Speakout.  “I know now that the
internet is just a tool, and I will use it to better the lot of my neighborhood” said a father of 5, who had brought his whole family
along for learning. “I have a class A
Microsoft certificate,” said another participant, “but this was a long time ago. I am less scared
now, and it is like my mind has opened up to understand it all.” 

The Boot-Up Camp is a joint
effort of community outreach between the Peoples MEDIA Center, Inc. – a
revitalized media training and community center and internet café (located
inside the formerly famous “Foxy Playground” strip club) on Georgia Avenue, and
INO Solutions, Inc. – an innovative comprehensive computer hardware and
training enterprise that has opened several local computer centers in DC and
Fairfax County. “This program is an
intrinsic part of the Peoples MEDIA Center’s mission,” says its founding
director Ryme Katkhouda. “Without computer literacy, it is nearly impossible
to create media today, and we are committed to making media by the people for
the people.” INO Solutions’ founders Sahil Sinha and Scott Anderson added “Not
only does open source software make it possible for members of this community
to do more than they ever thought possible with computers, but it is really the
future of software.”

The graduation ceremony is meant
to introduce the Center and this pilot class to the community as we celebrate
the holidays.  We hope that people
learning of this free pilot program will help provide resources for future such
programs. We are a small firm, and there is only so much we can do on our
dollar. 

###

Ryme Katkhouda

msg 202-538-1331  wbixclass at yahoo.com



founding director of the Peoples MEDIA Center, Washington DC, 
Make $$s by supporting us! Join http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/96184



co-founder of the dcradiocoop.org and wbix.org

Executive Producer of "Voices With Vision", Th 11am on WPFW.org 89.3FM in DC 

Senior Producer, news editor and trainer at Pacifica Radio Network 

Radio Training director at WPFW 89.3FM for 2 1/2 years

National Correspondent with Free Speech Radio News FSRN.org

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--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Jeffrey Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
From: Jeffrey Elkner <jeff at elkner.net>
Subject: [DC LoCo] As the new year begins, is there anything we can do about our website?
To: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:44 PM

Hi All,

Our website still has as its top "What's New?" entry a July 13th
meeting at Taste of India.  Our inability to edit our site means we can't
use the website to:

* Link folks to RetroPC's latest $99 Ubuntu offering
* Report on Kevin's Saturday classes at the Cleveland Park Library
* Report on the successful completion of a training program the People's
Media Center
* Announce the LPIC class planned for the new Governor's Career and
Technical Academy in Arlington
* Plan meetings and events and provide a one stop location for DC Ubuntistas to
keep up with what is going on

Is there anything we can do about this?  Kevin, if you provide us all with an
email address of a person we could contact, perhaps we could start an email
writing campaign?  We ought to do something, as this situation is really holding
us back.

Happy New Year!

jeff 

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