[DC LoCo] [Fwd: Re: DC computer refurbishing and open sourcesoftware...]

[Riley hamilton]

The kids were part of the DC summer school to work program.  Most of
them were between 13 -16.  They were actually paid workers and also
learned PC skills, work skills, life skills, etc.  I believe the
afternoon session did audio editing on both windows and ubuntu.  They
also did digital editing on both since gimp runs on both platforms.
We had a very wide range of skillsets.  When I asked some of the kids
what they used at home they were not even sure.  They all loved the
Ubuntu studio machine when it got setup and the speakers turned on.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Craig Wiggins <craigwiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's cool -- I need to make it down to Al Fishawy one of these days.
> How old were these kids?  Did they come in with a specific need (problem to
> be solved through interaction with software), or was this serendipity?
> Digital image, video and/or audio editing? UWas this a computer camp-type
> setting, or kids coming in as they wished?
>
> My question mark key is faded.
>
>
>
> On 2/14/08, Riley hamilton <riley.hamilton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have direct not very scientifical proof that kids do not care
> > whether their PC has Microsoft or Ubuntu.  At cafe alfishawy this
> > summer we had kids with very limited exposure to PC's ( except games
> > and myspace) setting up and tearing down both microsoft and ubuntu
> > machines.  One of the teachers even taught digital editing etc.on the
> > ubuntu machines.  Needless to say the kids did not have much of
> > problem making the jump.  They actually cared less than the teachers.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Kevin Cole wrote:
> > >  > My "snotty" side was tempted to write back to Mr. Dodge with a
> comment
> > >  > like "The fact/theory/rumor that DC kids are either less educated or
> > >  > less intelligent than students in developing countries isn't a
> > >  > software problem." But I resisted. ;-)
> > >
> > >  P.S. Lest it wasn't clear, I also think that it's largely "attitude"
> both
> > >       on the part of the students, AND the teachers / parents / sources
> of
> > >       computers that somehow because of socio-economic circumstance that
> > >       kids are somehow incapable of jumping the digital divide with
> FOSS.
> > >       Hence the reference to "theory/rumor" above and I should have
> added
> > >       "myth". ;-)  Sometimes those sorts of emphases get lost in e-mail.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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