[Glastonbury] Volunteers + Hardware

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:57:37AM +0000, steve wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> I am happy to be a third person resident in Galstonbury who could help 
> out in this capacity if needed, advanced notice obviously preferred.
> 
Thanks :)
> 
> >
> >
> >In the meantime, our next meeting is on Tuesday, February 14th,
> 
> I will be able to make the next meeting so we can discuss any further 
> "organisational" requirements there may be.
> I am looking foward to seeing you all again and finding out more about 
> the LPI course.
> Many many thanks for getting this all set up and just getting on with it 
> folks.
> While I am on, the transfiguration of the group has come at the right 
> time regarding the use of St. Dunstan's facilities as from September 
> 2006 there will be no Linux boxes in use around the school for 
> curriculum or admin use other than as LIVECD demonstration bootups for 
> ICT classes. However there will be a continued and prevalent use of Open 
> Source software.

That's a shame: you were getting somewhere there, not least by saving
significant amounts of money on licenses and exposing youngsters to
Free Software. [My 7 year old had heard on the news today that Microsoft
might release their most valuable things so was having a long conversation 
about it in the car :) ]

> I will be moving into the Performing Arts Department and focussing on 
> Music Technology and Media Outreach work with the Primaries as well as 
> introducing the  "My first INGOT" certification in the summer term.

Good luck with this.

> I am also currently looking at using the "studio to go" distro 
> http://www.ferventsoftware.com/ for developing a KS4 music technology 
> course much like the INGOT is based around Open Office and Open Source 
> applications. Currently there is no GCSE in Music Technology.
> 

Agnula/DeMuDi are probably the answer to a lot of things :) Studio to
Go costs significant money even to buy the "Download Edition". 
You may also want to talk to the Debian-Edu / Skolelinux group who are 
seeking to put together a distribution for all aspects of education.
[Yes, the Debian project has adopted these independent projects as 
custom Debian distributions and, yes, they still tend to go under both
names :) ]

> If  Richard and Tim are still subscribed to the list ~ we need to talk 
> again ~
> 
> Anyway,
> See you on the 14th ~
> Hey isn't that date significant?
> 
> kind regards,
> Steve Leonard-Clarke
> 
> 
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