please be brutally honest! On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Sandwhich Eyes <sandwhicheyes at gmail.com> wrote: > i have my opening statement done. it may be a bit overconfident/smug or > not. i have to be careful with my head injuries to not just say the first > thing that comes to into my head. i would like to put up a website using > something like hostinger to document the process to assist others who may > have the same opportunity that i have been provided with. > > Let me start by saying that in a way, I am an educator. I started a > nonprofit 501c3 to give native cultures in the western hemisphere access to > education, technology, and commerce. We started a diabetes awareness > program for which we had booths set up at places such as The Science Museum > of Minnesota. There is also a syndicated radio show named Indigenous in > Music that was formed from this project that was set up and designed by me. > (Currently being made weekly using the same setup I made, but done by a 15 > year old Native American boy with remarkable quality.) > > At the chamber of commerce, IICOC (Indigenous Internet Chamber of > Commerce), I received donated computers, mostly used, and would DBAN the > hard drives to completely remove the previous contents and install a > variety of different operating systems on them such as Microsoft Windows, > Mac, FreeBSD, but mostly Linux. Most of our volunteers were unfamiliar with > computers. > > Eventually the people who had been accessing the Windows machines would go > onto a Linux machine. I would frequently hear, where is this specific > program? When my learning Linux volunteers would switch to Windows they > would ask, where is this specific option; as most of them had moved from > computer to computer on the different distributions I had choose to install > of Linux as our main operating systems they had used different programs > already to do the same thing. For example Open Office and ABI Word, Star > Office, Libre Office, etc. all do the same thing INCLUDING that which > Microsoft Word/Office have to offer. > > It seems as though closed source systems like Apple and Windows provide, > as an example, frequently will not offer the options that Open Source > software offers. Part of the reason for this is financial. Microsoft > Corporation pays many people in order to bring you Microsoft Windows and > its related products and adhere to budgets put in place; limiting the > options that many people may want/need. If the source code is open source > it provides a means for these people to add the options. Then if the choose > to offer them to the community they can merge it upstream in the next > software release; which happens many times faster than Microsoft offers > (sometimes daily instead of every few years as in Microsoft Office), while > providing the flexibility to use the same software on almost every platform > imaginable including Microsoft Windows. Bill Gates would have a hard time > with all of his money we gave him to do the same thing that an open source > community can do in a very short amount of time. If this doesn’t make sense > to you or you feel I am wrong, I encourage you to spend some time and look > around. You need to understand that most of what you see is running Linux. > Your smart TV’s, your cable box, your android phone, wireless access > points, printers, modern ATM machines, most web services, drones, mail > sorting machines, most electronic medical equipment, ………………… Keep looking > around and investigate the influence or complete use of open source in it. > It is everywhere, and as educators you really need to understand that in > real life people will be using Linux and other open source software in > their daily lives; which translates to jobs. > > From organizational structure, to the people who freely give, providing us > with the many different communities, open source is what made most > everything we see today. Open source is a very welcoming educational, and > transparent way for everyone who wants to become involved in every single > aspect of designing, building, and/or using software and hardware that is > available; or that they have dreamed up, providing us with innovation and > change in ways that a small group of executives with access to code and > schematics may never have. > > Open source has been around since the very beginning of computing whether > it was through collaboration of different entities or under the somewhat > specific name of open source, and will continue to provide people with the > opportunity to use this information to learn about how the world works > around them; and if you so desire to build a closed source business with > it, as the licensing provides people with this and many many opportunities > to use it however they can imagine. Microsoft and Apple both provide the > open source community with philanthropy and code; on occasion. Many > commercial enterprises offer support including financial to the open source > communities on an ongoing basis; frequently because their business was > built using open source hardware and software. There are companies who > offer support to the end users of said communities as well as a very large > number of people available at any time to answer questions freely and with > passion. There is a symbiotic relationship between the 2 (open and closed > source) and to ignore the open source community and Linux is an act of > ignorance at this point in my speech. To avoid research and use of these > technologies in an education environment, other than universities who > already incorporate and innovate these technologies, would be a choice I > hope no one listening to this or reading this after my speech will make. > > It should be noted that our government is the primary funder and founder > of these open source projects and brought us modern day computing as we > know it. This is not a business exclusive relationship, but one that > crosses international, cultural, and civil borders and is comprised of > educational, business, government, and civilian peoples from every walk of > life with varying interests and goals united together. > > > none of this needs to be in here, it is only my first draft. i can scrap > it and start over as i often do. > > i am open to all criticisms as this is important to the other kids in the > school out here (potentially other schools); my kids will have plenty of > skills regardless of any end results. > > *This is so fun!* > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > >> Regarding augmented reality, I have been working on it for a while now. >> There >> is a LOT to it, not just hardware, btu good hardware is key. >> >> I used the Microsoft product (name escapes me) and will be working with >> the >> Oculus Rift DK2 on Saturday. My searches for Linux software and drivers >> that >> are necessary in order to use the ready-made API show that there is little >> out there at the moment. If anyone has any info that I should be looking >> at, >> please share. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160825/827f002a/attachment-0001.html>