[FLOSS-Desktops] Hello from St. Paul to Floss Desktops Email Group

[Patrick Masson]

Hi Stu and thanks so much for joining.
It looks like you've found the mailing list (no duh!?) and also
registered on the wiki. I'm not sure if I have shared this to this
group but we also have an IRC channel on freenode at #FLOSSdesktops. I
am very lonely over there right now ;-)
For others on this list, I'll note that Stu's work with the Asian
Penguins was one of the programs that motivated the OSI to develop the
FLOSS Desktops program. So many of you are doing great things, we just
wanted to try and help to coordinate information sharing so other
schools, clubs, communities could also start up a LinuX/Open Source
group.
Thanks so much,Patrick 
P.S. If anyone else wants to introduce themselves to the list here,
that would be great (help the community building)
On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 10:28 -0500, Stuart Keroff wrote:
> Hello!
> My name is Stu Keroff, and I am the technology coordinator at
> Community School of Excellence, a Hmong charter school in St. Paul,
> MN. Our student population is overwhelmingly Southeast Asian, mostly
> Hmong (from Laos) with a minority of students being Karenni (from
> Burma). Our students are either refugees or children of refugees.
> I am also the founder and director of the Asian Penguins, our
> school's Linux users group. The Asian Penguins are the first and only
> (so far) Linux club based in a Hmong school. The kids in the club
> learn to install, configure, and use Linux and other open source
> software. Then they take what they've learned to refurbish used
> computers, which are given to needy families in our community. We
> have given away 107 computers in the club's history. We have also
> provided our school with 120 Linux laptops for use in grades 5-8.
> I want to meet other teachers who are using Linux at school. Not only
> do I want to learn from my peers, but I want my kids to get to know
> other kids at other schools who are using Linux. I want them to see
> what other kids are doing and to know that they are not alone. I also
> want to use tech to give them  a chance to make friends who are not
> Asian.
> For more information about us, go to www.asianpenguins.org.
> To see what I have put together about starting a Linux club at
> school, go to https://sites.google.com/site/startlinuxclub/. Please
> note: this guide does not include any of the resources of the FLOSS
> Desktop Google Drive, as I wrote my guide before I saw the FLOSS
> Desktop stuff. Some of my resources (documents) may be submitted to
> FLOSS Desktop in the future.
> Have a great day. Let me know where your are!
> Sincerely,
> -- 
> Mr. Stu Keroff
> Community School of Excellence
> Technology Coordinator
> Asian Penguins Faculty Adviser
> CSE Asian Penguins website
> CSE Asian Penguins You Tube Channel
> Twitter -- @StuKeroff
> 
> "We can't get this done until we really accept that we can get this
> done." -- Bono
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> FLOSSDesktops mailing list
> FLOSSDesktops at opensource.org
> https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/flossdesktops
-- 
  ||  |   | || |  ||  ||  | || |  |||  |  |||  

Patrick Masson
General Manager & Director, Open Source Initiative
855 El Camino Real, Ste 13A, #270
Palo Alto, CA 94301
United States
Office: (415) 857-5398
Mobile: (970) 4MASSON
Email: masson at opensource.org
Website: www.opensource.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/flossdesktops_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20170328/3be72540/attachment.html>