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||http://gri.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/Professional/kjc75x100.jpg||Hi. Although I've been programming computers since 1973, and using GNU/Linux since 1993, I consider myself to be more of a "publicity" guy and "social network facilitator" (though I hate that word "facilitator"). I promote the use of Free/Open Source Software, particularly in educational environments, with YHSLUG^7^ being my favorite example and am now advertising Ubuntu around the Brain-Washington, DC area, when I should be doing useful work for my office, the Gallaudet Research Institute^8^. || ||http://gri.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/Professional/kjc75x100.jpg||Hi. Although I've been programming computers since 1973, and using GNU/Linux since 1993, I consider myself to be more of a "publicity" guy and "social network facilitator" (though I hate that word "facilitator"). I promote the use of Free/Open Source Software, particularly in educational environments, with YHSLUG^8^ being my favorite example and am now advertising Ubuntu around the Brain-Washington, DC area, when I should be doing useful work for my office, the Gallaudet Research Institute^9^. ||
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My connection to is through the [:DCTeam:Washington, DC] [:LoCoTeams:LoCo]. I am also one of the core members of the "Computers for Social Justice" project, which is still in the planning phase. This project is part of a growing effort world-wide to refurbish and reuse old computers in the community. Our target distribution falls somewhere between Edubuntu and Ubuntu Lite, as we hope to distribute these older computers in the K-12 school system in northeast DC first. (We've decided not to establish a web site until we're a bit further along.) I've also written some tutorials^10^ (primarily for students, staff and faculty at Gallaudet) and am the creator and sporadic maintainer of the LEG-UP CD^3^. The CD has been superceded by Open CD Project^11^. My connection to is through the [:DCTeam:Washington, DC] [:LoCoTeams:LoCo]. I am also one of the core members of the "Computers for Social Justice" project, which is still in the planning phase. This project is part of a growing effort world-wide to refurbish and reuse old computers in the community. Our target distribution falls somewhere between Edubuntu and Ubuntu Lite^10^, as we hope to distribute these older computers in the K-12 school system in northeast DC first. (We've decided not to establish a web site until we're a bit further along.) I've also written some tutorials^11^ (primarily for students, staff and faculty at Gallaudet) and am the creator and sporadic maintainer of the LEG-UP CD^3^. The CD has been superceded by Open CD Project^12^.
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 * ^7^[http://yhslug.tux.org/ YHSLUG]
 * ^8^[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/ Gallaudet Research Institute]
 * ^9^[http://ubuntulite.org/ Ubuntu Lite]
 * ^10^[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/ Other tutorials]
 * ^11^[http://www.theopencd.org/ Open CD Project]		  * ^7^[ * http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Washington Software Freedom Day 2005 Report]
 * ^8^[http://yhslug.tux.org/ YHSLUG]
 * ^9^[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/ Gallaudet Research Institute]
 * ^10^[http://ubuntulite.org/ Ubuntu Lite]
 * ^11^[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/ Other tutorials]
 * ^12^[http://www.theopencd.org/ Open CD Project]

Contact Info

See my [https://launchpad.net/people/kjcole Launchpad Profile].

Teams and Projects

  • [:DCTeam:Washington, DC] [:LoCoTeams:LoCo Team] - Contact / Lead

  • [:EdubuntuWiki:Edubuntu]

  • [:DocumentationTeam:Documentation Team]

  • [:AccessibilityTeam:Accessibility Team]

  • [:UbuntuInLibraries:Ubuntu In Libraries]

Contributed resources

  • [:FreeNxHowto:FreeNX HOWTO]

  • [:SpecialNeeds:Special Needs in Educational Software]

  • Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD for Newbies1

  • Linux Tips2

  • LEG-UP CD3 (sort of Open CD Lite)

  • The Next Step: Beyond Microsoft4

  • Byte Back Curriculum5

  • Digital Divide Network (DDN) Ubuntu Community6

  • Software Freedom Day 2005 Report7

About me

http://gri.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/Professional/kjc75x100.jpg||Hi. Although I've been programming computers since 1973, and using GNU/Linux since 1993, I consider myself to be more of a "publicity" guy and "social network facilitator" (though I hate that word "facilitator"). I promote the use of Free/Open Source Software, particularly in educational environments, with YHSLUG8 being my favorite example and am now advertising Ubuntu around the Brain-Washington, DC area, when I should be doing useful work for my office, the Gallaudet Research Institute9.

Edubuntu

My connection to is through the [:DCTeam:Washington, DC] [:LoCoTeams:LoCo]. I am also one of the core members of the "Computers for Social Justice" project, which is still in the planning phase. This project is part of a growing effort world-wide to refurbish and reuse old computers in the community. Our target distribution falls somewhere between Edubuntu and Ubuntu Lite10, as we hope to distribute these older computers in the K-12 school system in northeast DC first. (We've decided not to establish a web site until we're a bit further along.) I've also written some tutorials11 (primarily for students, staff and faculty at Gallaudet) and am the creator and sporadic maintainer of the LEG-UP CD3. The CD has been superceded by Open CD Project12.

Speaking of Gallaudet... There is an issue of addressing SpecialNeeds in Edubuntu.

External References

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