[Ubuntu-us-ok] Plaza district OKC

[Scott Sanbar]

My name is Scott Sanbar.  I have very similar interests to what you discuss
here.  What is the best way to communicate about this?  Are you located in
OKC?

On Oct 1, 2016 9:53 AM, "Israel" <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone,

I am reaching out, as there is a movement in the plaza district lead by
the District House Coffee Shop to give kids in the surrounding
neighborhood job training.  I'd like to work with some of the kids to
teach them to use some libre tools (Inkscape, Tiled, LMMS, GIMP, etc...)
to create art.  The idea is to have them learn the tools to create video
game assets (characters, items, UI buttons, animations, tile maps,
music, sound effeccts, etc..) and then teach them to create a game in
haXe.  Probably using HaxeFlixel, or one of the other nice libraries.
And possibly creating the game in HTML5/JavaScript as well using some
nice library (something like lime.js or any of the other nice ones.. I'm
open to ideas)

The reason I am contacting y'all is that I am wondering if there is
anyone on this list with connections to the Oklahoma tech scene that
might have any interest in this non-profit endeavor?

The needs are pretty basic.
Any unused computer will do.  Anything with at least 256MB Ram (the more
the merrier of course). Laptops that could go to the kids after the
class would be really great, but really just about any computer would
do.  As you all know it is really quite possible to run Ubuntu on most
anything, well as long as CMOV isn't required by the processor, and now
with Trusty and onward they need to have PAE (or at least be capable of
using forcepae), and even in the older computers Debian will work fine
(Jessie still maintains the 586 kernel).
Even PPC will work fine (with Debian... the Ubuntu variants are a little
heavy on the older ones, as well as using JWM rather than something like
MATE or LXDE).

Anyhow, if there are any experts with Inkscape, or any of the other
programs (KDE graphics programs are also fine to include in this list
stuff like Krita, etc..) and anyone who wants to lend expertise toward
programming in JavaScript or haXe (though haXe is really quite easy if
you have any c/c++/java/JavaScript/etc... syntactical background).

Thanks for taking the time to read this!  If we get something going here
that works, perhaps some of you in Tulsa, etc... might be able to take
our idea and learn from the mistakes to duplicate it there.

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Regards


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