[ubuntu-us-ma] Tuesday 4pm at Sprout in Somerville - Please come help the One2One2Go project that will be providing computers and bootable USB sticks to a Somerville Housing Project

[Martin Owens]

As the teacher for this class, I fully endorse this message.

Nice work Caroline.

On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 20:27 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> As some of you may know we are working on a project to provide donated
> computers and bootable USB sticks with Ubunutu plus a educational
> software to the Clarendon Hill Apartments (CHA), a public housing
> project in Somerville.
> 
> The computer center at CHA is run by the Haitian Coalition, a
> nonprofit entity. The computers and this project will benefit people
> of all nationalities living in the project. We hope it will also train
> members of the local Haitian community who wish to goto refugee camps
> and set up computer labs.
> 
> On Weds we give our first class to the Haitian Coalition volunteers, a
> tech savvy group of Haitians who will be supporting computer access at
> CHA and in Haiti.
> 
> On Tuesday I want to do a dry run of the first class and test!   We
> will meet at Sprout at 4pm and another group has the space at 7pm.
> 
> If you would like to help test and develop the curriculum, bring a
> laptop and an empty 4GB USB stick.
> 
> http://thesprouts.org/
> 
> The class curriculum:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/12bF3kcGJGUQpwG20MIoOzDfHxPMpz-xt_qBvEPuX32w/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJ7UyqMD
> 
> We will be needing more help in the months to come, so if you can't
> make this or this part isn't your cup of tea please keep us in mind.
> 
> Thanks!
> Caroline
> 
> -- 
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> 
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