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

[Michael Trausch]

Oh please have this recorded. I won't be in town to see it. :(
On Jun 19, 2012 9:13 AM, "Aaron Ruscetta" <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
> =============
> 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>
> =============
> As always, this meeting info is also available on our
> web site: <http://ale.org>
>
> aaron
> ALE Event Coordinator (etc)
>
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