[lugm.org] Raspberry Pi Party with JCI

[Ronny R.]

What does JCI stands for?



On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Irshaad Abdool <irshaad_abd at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hmm;
> Ok :)
> Will find something else ;)
>
> What about organising a mini-programming-fest; where we teach some basic
> programming to kids during holidays and they can use the Pi as a platform
> to practice?
>
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 14:05:40 +0400
> From: ish at hacklog.in
> To: discuss at discuss.lugm.org
> Subject: Re: [lugm.org] Raspberry Pi Party with JCI
>
>
> Your suggestion is benevolent Irshaad & it requires a proper structure &
> good funding. We can't engage into bigger Pi projects until we have proved
> through smaller ones. The collaboration with JCI City Plus is one such
> example. Demo of RPi during Corsair Hackers Reboot is another example.
>
> Once we have several such references, we can go for sponsorship & grants.
> We also need to write-up project plans. If any LUGM member can volunteer
> with such stuffs, it'll great start already.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice.
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> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Irshaad Abdool <irshaad_abd at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> - Yes i can join in a meeting if need arises.
>
> I have a suggestion, I hope that it can help. We can target some 'poor'
> regions with no access to computers (as such) and no goo access to
> education, and set up 'education centers'. Here's a little mock-up of what
> I am talking about; http://pi.worldpossible.org/
> We will be needing some more gears; screens, keyboards n mice, networking
> stuffs n ol. That can both help to have a little understand of the Pi
> platform and also move towards a 'social responsibility' contribution.
>
>
> Regards,
> Irshaad
>
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 13:02:29 +0400
> From: ish at hacklog.in
> To: discuss at discuss.lugm.org
> Subject: [lugm.org] Raspberry Pi Party with JCI
>
> Hello folks,
>
> As discussed during previous meetups we have a collaborative project with
> JCI City Plus. The latter has received a donation of 30 Raspberry Pis &
> need help with Linux installs.
>
> I visited them yesterday along with Jagveer Loky, Yog Ujhoodha and Nitin
> Bachraz. A first reconnaissance was made & we deployed Raspbian on 3 Pis.
> They actually received a complete Pi kit with the RPi, 8Gb SD-Card loaded
> with NOOBS and a Pi casing.
>
> Yog & Jagveer have volunteered to produce educational content using
> GCompris. Nayar should be joining them if I'm not wrong (can you please
> confirm Nayar?).
>
> We have another meeting in 2 weeks time where we shall discuss contents of
> an MoU between JCI & LUGM regarding the project and various stakeholders.
> Who would like to join in for the meeting? Let me know & we shall plan it
> accordingly.
>
> Anybody else who's got ideas useful for this project, please shoot.
>
> Additional reading: http://hacklog.in/raspberry-pi-party/
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice.
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