Texas Team formation

[Jonathan Stulce]

  We in the Dallas region had a similar project called OCAM (One 
Computer a Month) in which we would donate a recycled machine to a 
school child. We've also slowly influenced those we know in the 
education field to adopt more open source alternatives. This has been 
growing in popularity, and some software has been replaced in the local 
schools.

Unfortunately, I recently read an article showcased results in a study 
that implies technology tends to hurt students more than assist them. 
Still, it's hard to compete in school without a computer.

On 06/20/2010 12:17 AM, Skip Guenter wrote:
> Following with that '/doing stuff/' line...
>
> How many of the folks on this list from in and around Austin
> participated in today's "Linux Against Poverty (LAP)?
> (http://linuxagainstpoverty.org/)
>
> It's the sort of thing an Ubuntu group could've been involved in as a
> sponsor or just rounding up old machines for it or whatever.
>
> Right now I don't know what the next event like that will be (LAP is
> annual) but I am sure that there will be another event along those lines
> late summer / early fall.  I'll post here when I get info to see if
> there's any interest.  It'll probably be a Helios event
> (http://www.heliosinitiative.org/news.php) which I'm involved with so
> should be able to provide a heads up.
>
> We're talking about doing a garage sale / flea market / computer repair
> day in the fall.  Ubuntu group could support the 'computer repair desk'
> technically and give out free CDs at the same time... dunno.  We'll
> (Helios) be working on this a bit more come the end of the month/ early
> July.
>
> Helios is also doing some 4 day kids summer camps on PC hardware using
> 10 old Dells we have.  At the end of it the kids also get walked thru
> doing an Ubuntu or Mint OS install.  I would think a loco could be
> involved in these sort of things also.
>
> Some thoughts anyway.
>
> Skip
>
> PS: HeliOS uses Mint and Ubuntu almost exclusively on their boxes and
> has put a 1000 machines into homes over the last 3 years.  Most of these
> folks had never heard of Linux before.
>
>
>
> Brandon Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jacob Isreal<jisreal at jacobisreal.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah. I tried to ask some questions and was responded to with some sentiments that there was already a Texas team and it was well-organized.   I offered to be the lead or organizer and someone told me they were the lead.  Now I see this message.  Can someone get it together and either tell me what to do? Or, can someone join with me and be co-lead?
>>>
>>> Jacob
>>>
>> Actually that was me on the loco-contacts mailing list. You said you
>> would take the role of loco contact for Texas since there wasn't one
>> yet, I informed you that we have one and told you how to contact the
>> rest of Texas (which you've obviously done now). Feel free to start
>> organizing events by all means! If you want help with the wiki, ask
>> and I'll help out as well. We're well organized, our core problem is
>> that we don't organize anything; a subtle distinction. We would all
>> love to see Texas get 'official' but we would have to actually be
>> doing stuff, which we are not. So instead of saying "hey let's get
>> approved" we should be saying "hey let's do stuff!" .
>>
>> Anyone have 'event' ideas? Sillie777 was doing a local austin meet-up
>> (i think 'life' stepped in to stop him though), you guys should do
>> some similar local meet-ups. We've tried organizing stuff in the past
>> but one problem we've had is that people don't know what they want to
>> get out of the loco. Personally I'd love to do bug/doc events but only
>> myself and Matthew "stlsaint" Byers have really shown interest. So in
>> the mean time I just use the loco as a friendly support group.
>>
>>