[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., June 21st, 2012

[Aaron Ruscetta]

The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, June 21st, 2012 will be:

"Open Source in Education:
Liberating Students, Teachers, Schools and Budgets
with Liberated Information Technology"
  presented by Jim Kinney

Synopsis:
- This presentation will be a look at tools, techniques and
philosophies from the communities of Free Liberated Open
Source technology that should be integrated RIGHT NOW
in K12 schools.
- Discussions will include a look at elements of the Open
Source universe that are an obvious and natural fit with the
functions and concerns of K12 education.  Some specific
software and configuration techniques will be discussed,
along with the benefits of integrating key concepts from
Open Source communities into the daily working process
of K12 schools and related IT practices. He promises that
the words "beer" and "political inclination" will be used in
the same breath only once.

(Full Frontal) Bio:
– James (Jim) Kinney, aka "brewer dude", "that crazy
guy trying to change the schools", and some titles with
more geeky overtones like "Sys Admin" and "i has root",
became an over-zealous GNU Linux fanboy the first time
he saw a discarded Next Cube running Slackware in 1992.
Several thousand system installs later his enthusiasm has
escalated to “rabidly over-zealous Linux fanboy advocating
for the total world domination process to speed up!” He is
actively involved in helping this process by promoting that
“fdisk solves all windows problems universally” and that
“apple is one byte shy of a whole fruit”.
– In the 18 years since his introduction to Linux goodness,
James has turned an obsession into a living. First at Emory
University where he taught physics, converted their Mac lab
to Linux and helped co-found LUGE, the Linux Users Group
of Emory. Next followed a 10+ year stint as an entrepreneur
Linux & Open Source consultant. Notable projects included
the installation of 40+ Linux servers running 2000+ student
stations in Atlanta public schools, server upgrade work at
Google, systems integration for a travel booking company,
and consulting for Cox Communications
– Currently Jim works with the Internet Security Systems
group of IBM along side some [other] really bright people
who are actively involved in protecting all aspects of
critical path communications (despite any MicroSoft
products in the pavement).

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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
<http://ale.org/?page_id=2>
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As always, this meeting info is also available on our
web site: <http://ale.org>

aaron
ALE Event Coordinator (etc)