[Ubuntu-us-ok] Plaza district OKC

[Scott Sanbar]

I work as a volunteer at a community center run by Crossings Community
Church.  I just contacted the coffee shop, and a manager is going to call
me back about their efforts and talk about commonalities between our
efforts for helping train people to enter the workforce at the community
center and their efforts.

Your letter is very timely as I have just finished refurbishing 4 donated
PCs with Ubuntu and Lubuntu and they are ready to donate to the local
community.  I would love to chat with you about this, and if or how our
efforts could complement each other.

Feel free to call me at 405.227.4724 if you wish.  Now is a great time, if
you are available.  I also go back on the Ubuntu IRC chat channel for loco
teams.

Scott Sanbar

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/01/2016 11:05 AM, Scott Sanbar wrote:
> > 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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> >
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> Hi,
>
> I am actually in between Edmond and Guthrie (out near the Lazy E), but I
> can meet anywhere you like.
>
> Feel free to e-mail me at this address any time, or if you have a more
> preferred method of communication let me know!
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