From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Feb 18 7:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nwlynx.network-lynx.net (nwlynx.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C63437B400 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from Silver-Lynx.com (fly.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.98]) by nwlynx.network-lynx.net (8.11.1/8.9.3/Who.Cares) with ESMTP id g1IFDU144594; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:13:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Message-ID: <3C711A0E.204BB966@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:13:18 -0700 From: Don Wilde Organization: Silver Lynx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in school networks - interested? References: <3C702748.1826FAF5@Silver-Lynx.com> <02021722144400.01477@proxy.pt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > On Sunday 17 February 2002 16:57, Don Wilde wrote: > > We have an active project in a middle school in Albuquerque where we > > teach the kids digital logic, BSD, Linux and how to think for > > themselves. Our PC instruction happens mostly on FreeBSD because those > > of us who are active are BSD-oriented, but we sometimes get assistance > > from our NMLUG Linux guys. As it is now, we have 2-3 guys at the school > > every Friday morning, and we've gotten substantial donations from other > > geeks and from some of the parents. The school people are absolutely > > blown sky-high by this, but they know it's good and they're bending over > > backward to help make it happen. > > Excellent work with this! If more people did this kind of thing, the world would > be a far better place! > The most important aspect of this, Bill, is that it has proven very beneficial for US (the geeks) as well as for the schools. By having to explain what we do to the kids, we have each increased our understanding of our own knowledge, and each of us has also gotten "light-bulb" inspirations from considering the questions raised by the students. Our investment is just three hours once a week, but it pays off bigtime for each of us. I highly recommend that you bug your boss (or make time if you're your own boss) to do something like this. Just the necessity to learn to speek _English_ again (instead of geekspeak) makes it worthwhile for anyone who has to deal with non-techies. -- Don Wilde http://www.Meta-Learn.com The Open ReSource Project 505-891-4175 FAX 891-4185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message