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.
>>
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