Ubuntu in Newton North/South High School

[Danny Piccirillo]

Well i was hoping to get the team (or some of us) involved in helping out. I
get nervous pretty easily and i'm not very good at speaking clearly and
sometimes i mishear things really badly which wouldn't do well for answering
questions. So if whoever can articulate and speak clearly, slowly and
smoothly, and keep the audience interested would be willing to volunteer to
give this speech that would be awesome.

Any help would be appreciated in other areas. Outlining the presentation,
figuring out the details, etc. We could make this bigger by inviting the
Parent Teacher Student Organization as well. I don't think this would
increase the size of the audience by much but i think it would certainly
influence the school administration more and bring awareness to some
parents, teachers, as well as possibly even some students. How does that
sound?

On Dec 15, 2007 5:07 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh I'm excited all right, just waiting to see what you want us to do.
>
> On 15/12/2007, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did the excitement here die just like that?
> >
> > For the sake of collaboration, i crated a new presentation on GDocs (so
> > there's nothing in it yet) and when it's done (since Google still hasn't
> > added support for Open Office Impress yes) i can export it as a ppt file
> and
> > convert it to odp in openoffice.
> >
> http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ajdqhbdzgsdj_968mfwn9bcg&invite=fkxwn9k
> >
> > Remember the focus of this presentation shouldn't be too technical.
> Schools
> > want to hear about usability, and price (and it doesn't hurt to preach
> about
> > freedom too-- just make sure to make it understandable for
> > non-technical-folk).
> >
> >
> > On Dec 12, 2007 10:50 PM, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > The Tech Dept Head is okay with it so let's figure out some plans! How
> > long do we need to prepare?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 12, 2007 12:08 AM, Danny Piccirillo <
> danny.piccirillo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well it probably won't be for at least a little while since we've
> only
> > just put out the computer for students to use but i'll talk to the Tech
> Dept
> > Head about it to see if we can work something out. We'll also want time
> to
> > work out an outline of what will be talked about, etc.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Dec 11, 2007 11:36 PM, Steve Pomeroy <steve at staticfree.info>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:10:21PM -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> > > > > > If someone would be willing to come in to give this presentation
> and
> > answer
> > > > > > questions, Caleb and i could take on the easier task of doing
> some
> > follow-up
> > > > > > demos to show what Ubuntu can do.
> > > > >
> > > > > As an NNHS alumni, I suspect that I'd probably be a good candidate
> on
> > > > > this subject. When were you thinking?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > The IT people at North are already interested in Open
> Source/Free
> > Software
> > > > > > and we could invite people from South to get them interested as
> > well. We
> > > > > > might actually be able to push for getting some real Ubuntu
> > computers in the
> > > > > > schools and paying for training a few people to help out.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wonderful!
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Steve Pomeroy
> > > > > http://staticfree.info/
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