Re: [seul-edu] I can't get Linux at my School, but is there other ways I can help?

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

I think you are right to be doubtful about the yet-another-Website syndrome.
How you can best put your knowledge to use depends on what your knowledge
*is*. Programming? Hardware expertise? Writing? System troubleshooting?
Different kinds of expertise lend themselves to different ways of contributing.

Look at the projects listed on the SEUL/EDU Web site, see what of them
interests you and matches your skills, and volunteer to work on one of them,
as a programmer or documentation writer.

Does the SEUL/EDU page still have a "Wish List"? If so, you can take a look
at that for ideas of what you might create.

There are many list that exist to answer questions, either beginner level or
specialized questions about some part of Linux. Join one of them and become
one of the people who answer questions. One possibility (only an example,
but it's one I hang out on) is linux-newbie, a majordomo-managed list at
vger.rutgers.edu -- join in the usual majordomo way. It's one of a large
family of linux lists (linux-kernel, linux-admin, linux-new, linux-ppp, a
lot more I don't recall).

Does whatever city in Ontario you live in have a LUG? If so, does it do any
sort of beginner support? (My local LUG, for example, holds a monthly
InstallFest where newcomers to Linux can bring their systems for
troubleshooting help.)

Even if you can't have an official Linux presence in your (high?) school,
might you start an after-school club of some sort, a place where students
interested in CS majors at university and, eventually, careers in CS can
learn about Linux and develop their skills? I don't really know how Canadian
schools are organized, but this would be a likely option in most American
schools.

No doubt there are other possibilities too ... these come to mind with a few
minutes' thought. Good luck in finding something that suits you.

At 04:17 AM 4/1/00 -0600, Kevin Brown wrote:
>I have recieved some very disappointing news: any school in Ontario
>can't get Linux. The government is in the process of spending money on
>NT and Novell. But are there other ways I can help other communities? I
>am running the CLEAG, yet I still don't know how another website will
>help other people. I want to get involved and put my knoledge to use,
>but where do I start?

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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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