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<p><font size="+2">As you know, the FCC recently reclassified the
Internet as a public utility. The new game takes away the
corporate argument against community broadband infrastructure.
With that in mind, and the notion of a community emergency
broadband mesh network is now a viable expectation for potential
disaster communications. Every school with a computer lab could
have a couple nodes in place for educational purposes, and
administered through Open Source platform. The kids can create
a volunteer club and discover how to expand the broadband
infrastructure out into the community. To make things easy, use
the Meraki units as the nodes. NYCMESH.NET is the big picture.
If you or anyone wants to flesh this idea out, I'll pledge to
come up with 2 nodes for a demo.</font></p>
<p><font size="+2">Tom</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/22/2016 12:00 PM, Linda Kateley
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<p>I started working with my school district about 10 years ago.
The problems I find there are always political and never about
technology. <br>
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<p>What worked for me is to find one champion in the system that
speaks the administrations language. I found there were a ton of
people who wanted to know, just not at the top.<br>
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<p>I introduced scratch to the elementary STEM school about 5
years ago, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scratch.mit.edu/">https://scratch.mit.edu/</a>.
It was the districts first involvement with opensource or
community. The project has been very very successful and it
opened the doors to more. But then they hired a new
superintendent that thought it was stupid so..that happened ;(</p>
<p>linda<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/21/16 10:43 AM, Sandwhich Eyes
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<div dir="ltr"> I have already given one presentation at the
Blair Taylor School with the principal and an IT guy and have
been asked to give a follow up talk to them and the head of
the IT department.
<div> They had macbook air for the older kids and ipads for
the younger ones. They bring these home at the end of the
school day. This time they decided to go with cromebooks. It
one of the best.. rated or testing, can't think of an
appropriate word, but with the quality of the teachers out
here i am pretty sure they could give my kids sticks and a
box of sand and they would still be well prepared for life
on their own/college. I am 100% positive they will be much
better off if they can learn without restrictions from open
source hardware, software, classes (like MIT offers open
courseware) and the ability to choose, to not be scolded for
breaking some license agreement or for reading and modifying
code should that be an interest. I want them to have Linux. </div>
<div> I have gave a compelling argument in the last meeting.
This time I want to have as many resources available to
provide for them, including reasons why schools frequently
choose to not use Linux. Anything will help. I had quite the
presentation last time and the IT guy didn't know what Unix
or BSD 4.4 was; or Linux, BSD, Solaris. Seems Ubuntu
provides computers reloaded with Linux and tablets so how
they didn't find anything about open source or Linux/BSD/ETC
is beyond me. I gave them a live Ubuntu OS on a thumb drive.
I wanted to make some more and use persistence to load up
some information to give to the IT people who are possibly
way under informed, to give them plenty of time on their own
to absorb what open source has to offer; mostly community! </div>
<div> They asked many questions about community. Yes we work
together and keep our favorite distributions alive often
without corporate support! </div>
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