[lugm.org] Raspberry Pi Party with JCI

[Ish Sookun]

JCI == Junior Chamber International

Ish Sookun

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Ronny R. <redoverlord at gmail.com> wrote:

> What does JCI stands for?
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> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Irshaad Abdool <irshaad_abd at hotmail.com>
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>> Hmm;
>> Ok :)
>> Will find something else ;)
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers!
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>> Ish Sookun
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>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Irshaad Abdool <irshaad_abd at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Hi there,
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>> - Yes i can join in a meeting if need arises.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?).
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>> 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.
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>> Additional reading: http://hacklog.in/raspberry-pi-party/
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>> Cheers!
>>
>> Ish Sookun
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