[ale] Innoative ways to spread Linux. Was: ITT Tech this Saturday?

[Richard Bronosky]

I've been meaning to finish a Python (PyGame) based OpenGL slide show
application for use in turning OLD OLD OLD laptops into digital
picture frames. I'm making it work without X11 to keep it light
weight. I'm building a library of super smooth "Ken Burns" like
transitions (with rotation as a bonus) and an Arduino API. I want to
make a knoppix-like distro that turns a laptop bound for a landfill
into the most impressive photo frame in the world.

I think I've talked about this before, but the difference now is that
I'm in a python training class all this week, and will be better
equipped to put more work into it.

On 2/26/10, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Glad you'll be attending Charles!  I'm out of town for the weekend or
> I'd be joining you.  Pointed a prospect at the install fest while hanging
> out at Twains for the Linux User Group In Decatur (LUCID) meeting
> Wednesday.  A shorter, middle aged woman who may be arriving
> with a crippled windiseased system and a computer literate daughter.
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> For tonight, I just got back from the Lanier Tech LUGNUTS road trip
> with Michael Trausch a couple hours ago. Mike did a nice prex on
> Ubuntu server (and I got educated about the Dash shell).
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> Unfortunately, the meeting was pretty sparsely attended. Don't know
> what the mindset of the Lanier Tech students is or how they could
> think that spreading windiseases is going to be viable IT career past
> the next 5 years.  These days, failing to get extensive experience
> with Linux as an IT student seems negligent.  Duping these people
> into paying for windisease treatment training seems criminal.
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> Seems that the Lanier Tech Linux group is running into the same
> walls to sharing IT Freedom with the world that ALE has been
> trying to break through.  They have similar problems addressing
> NooB / Uber Geek interest gulf as well.
>
> Anyway...
> We're trying to come up with a brilliant angle on a LUGNUTS install
> fest or presentation for the April / May events that might attract a
> broader range of  students or better pique the interests of the IT
> group.  One idea proposes doing a project oriented install day
> where we help students turn an old PC or laptom into a Linux
> Media Server or other Linux appliance device, perhaps offering
> 3 or 4 choices.
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> If anyone has ideas they want to share on this topic, please put
> them out there.  There is a big need for some fresh and innovative
> approaches in our outreach to these other demographic groups.
>
> Thanks!
> peace
> aaron
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, is anyone else is going to the ITT Tech Linux Fest this Saturday?
>>  I'll be happy to carry you or ride with you. I'm located just across
>> the tracks from Prestigious Avondale Estates, a little less than 3
>> miles East of Decatur.  Google maps has it about a 25 minute ride from
>> my place to the venue. I'm currently thinking of staying all the way
>> 09:00 to 17:00, but I'm somewhat open to suggestion re the morning
>> part.  Aaron can vouch for my (mostly) good character.
>>
>> -- CHS
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>> On SATURDAY, FEB. 27th, from 9am to 5pm,
>> we invite you to join us for
>>
>>  THE ALE SOURCE FREEDOM LINUX FEST
>>
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>> 485 Oak Place, Atlanta, GA 30349
>>
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