Dear nmglugers, thanks for those who have donated laptops for the
programming course.
I will be teaching on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, as usual,
it
would be good to get some help with the "installfest" with which I
start
the course. I will have 8 or more students with random old
laptops and
we need to quickly get them installed. I will have a large stash
of
DVDs and USB sticks with anything from Ubuntu 12.04 i386 to Ubuntu
16.04
adm64.
If anyone feels like helping kids install GNU/Linux on Saturday
morning,
consider showing up at 10am on Saturday! I will urge the kids to
show
up early so as to get the installation part going.
And anyone from nmglug who wants to learn Python is encouraged to
come
audit the course.
More info is at:
https://sites.google.com/site/santafecoding/
Dear nmglugers,
On February 4th and 5th I will be teaching my programming course
for
kids.
This course requires bringing in an old computer to install
GNU/Linux,
and I try to keep a stash of laptops for students from poor
families who
cannot get hold of an old machine.
People from nmglug have been really generous in finding old
laptops and
donating them. I have even been able to donate a couple of
laptops to
particularly enthusiastic students who had no computer at home.
If you have one that you are sure you will never use again, please
consider donating it for the course. Anything that will run
ubuntu
12.04 is fine (1gig of RAM and up).
And if you know kids (6th grade and up for this course) who might
be
interested please pass the information to them. Web site with
flyers
and full instructor's manual is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/santafecoding/
Apparently libreboot has been ported to it:
https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html
and someone was asking me for opinions on using this to install
debian
or ubuntu.
It's ARM instead of intel, so I'm guessing it's less well
established.
