Re: Seems to be huge computer opportunity
Rick Engebretson <[email protected]>
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I'm not the person to offer new ideas. Things are changing where I live, but I kid you not, I just got insulted by an octogenarian who thinks he's top dog because he fixed his Model A Ford and 1975 lawn tractor. I started college in the slide rule era, learned computers with punch cards, and traveled between U of M libraries in St. Paul and Minneapolis reading research articles hidden in huge books. Funny to think Psychology 101 was a movie at Northrup Auditorium filling 2,000 seats. Imagine competitive learning content. Imagine innovative learning environments. Imagine affordable, quality education. I think John Lennon said that. I'm not the person to offer new ideas. But the system is broken and needs new ideas. And Linux and Raspberry Pi is only a secret to our octogenarian political class. Iznogoud wrote: > Unfortunately only some bleeding-edge segments of the US government have > embraced Linux (I am thinking 3-4 letter agencies). The mainstrea rests on > mostly Microsoft products and unfortunately the Windows OS flavours. I am > guessing that there is a healthy amount of lobbying to keep things this way. > > The open-source alternatives should be lobbied for in governments, and the > barrier has to be overcome. It is not just that the responsibility rests on > the Linux community to make it look and act more like Windows, it is that > the investment has to be made by people to get out of their comfort zone > and learn new things. So, it is both. Perhaps we can find creative ways to > reel them in, educate, and make them preach this gospel. Food for thought. > > Not sure if there is a class in junior-high that is about computers and > includes some aspect of familiarizing kids with non-popular types of > computing. Maybe there should be some command-line work, like when I grew up. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > [email protected] > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota [email protected] http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list