[HLUG] update on schools project

Sat Jul 16 09:44:36 UTC 2011

Tony
I like the name - 
I had a job in london yesterday and once I'd finished as I was not too
far away I called into Fossbox to meet up with Paula who is one of the
organisers of http://www.flossie.org/  a network for women involved in
FLOSS which has just been set up
I had a long chat with Carlos and Paul who work for Fossbox -
http://www.fossbox.org.uk/  its a not for profit funded by Tower Hamlets
Council - aimed at digital inclusion - and they have been think about
running a schools project so were very interested in what we are doing.
Carlos was particularly interested when I told him that you had been
looking at lubuntu as a basis for tuxedu (i didn't know you'd given it a
name at the time) - so I said I would put you in touch with him (i'll
send you his email) - he is interested in shadowing our project and has
offered to help us if he can and possibly come up to Herefordshire at
some point during the project. 
They were mainly thinking of working with secondary schools offering
workshops with Arduino as an extra curricula activity and had not realy
considered talking to primary schools so were very interested in our
approach. 
Just to clarify - they do not want to charge schools - any projects they
do with schools will be completely free - the schools in Tower Hamlets
are huge and very culturaly diverse compared to Herefords schools so
it's very different in that respect ,  but they are interested in
looking at what we do and then maybe using aspects of it and sharing
information with others around the UK who want to run similar schools
projects - there may be a possibility of one in Manchester.
Paula is also going to put me in contact with the guy who ran the
original Arduino/secondary school workshops in Coventry - incase this is
useful for us - he is something to do with Warwick University.
Anyway I said we would be happy to share info and any help they can
offer us would be galdly received. Like most similar organisations they
don't have spare cash and their funding is under pressure but they are
keen to help if they can.
It would be great to get a primary school in herefordshire talking to
one in tower hamlets about FOSS - just a thought:)

Carlos had also heard a little about Vinux and he and Paula were very
interested in talking to you about that as well.

-- 
Sarah
ISFD Sept 17, 2011 - http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 19:21 +0000, Tony Sales wrote:

> I have registered tuxedu.org.uk and will let people know when there is anything worth seeing...
> ________________________________________
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Tony Sales [tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk]
> Sent: 15 July 2011 19:41
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] update on schools project
> 
> Hi guys I have sorted out the interface for the new nursery/primary iso and I intend to call it tuxedu (sounds like tuxedo) and it will have a tux based theme and games etc. I have checked that there are no linux distros called this and although a few people are using it as a username most of the URL's are still available - can anyone buy the domain name tuxedu.org so we can use it or even tuxedu.org.uk - if not I will buy it - but I am not sure how to transfer the domain name to another user, or whether I can use this name on my existing hosting package?
> ________________________________________
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Graham Perkins [grahamperk at gmail.com]
> Sent: 15 July 2011 18:43
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] update on schools project
> 
> Hello.  Could you tell me if the Queen Elizabeth College in Bromyard has
> responded?
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Graham
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Tony Sales <tony.sales at rncb.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Knighton Primary have now expressed an interest in being involved - so you
> > can include them in the information postings - the deputy head has said yes,
> > but the head is currently off sick - but I don't anticipate any issues.
> >
> > Tony.
> > ________________________________________
> > From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [
> > herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Sarah Chard [
> > sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk]
> > Sent: 14 July 2011 16:18
> > To: herefordshire
> > Subject: [HLUG] update on schools project
> >
> > Hi everyone
> > I just thought I would update the list on what's happening with our
> > schools project
> >
> > Following an email -out to primary and secondary schools in
> > Herefordshire we have had positive responses from a number of schools
> > who want to be involved in
> > our Open Source Schools Project. We may get a few more express interest
> > over the next week.
> >
> > Once we know exactly how many want to be involved in the project and
> > which areas they are in we can decide if we are going to do workshop
> > days with all of them or just a select few. At the minute we can
> > probably manage to cover them all - if any more ask to be involved we
> > may have to make decisions based on the area/school cluster they are in.
> >
> > Tony is busy creating ISO's we can use with educational software ready
> > to run
> >
> > If this project is successful we will reach not only teachers and
> > children but also parents as well so it could potentially have quite an
> > impact across the county.
> > There will be  alot to discuss at the LUG meeting on Weds 27th - not
> > least because we still need to publicise the main ISFD event on sept
> > 17th to the general public so hopefully quite a few of you will be able
> > to make it
> >
> > --
> > Sarah
> > ISFD Sept 17, 2011 - http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is
> >
> >
> >
> >
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