KevinCole
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
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 YHSLUG7 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 Institute8. |
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 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 tutorials10 (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 The CD has been superceded by Open CD Project11.
Speaking of Gallaudet... There is an issue of addressing SpecialNeeds in Edubuntu.
External References
1[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/ubuntu.php Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD for Newbies]
2[http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/linux_tips.php Linux Tips]
3[http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/tricki/LegUp LEG-UP CD]
4[http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/tricki/NextStep The Next Step: Beyond Microsoft]
5[http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/tricki/ByteBack Byte Back Curriculum]
6[http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/Ubuntu/ Digital Divide Network (DDN) Ubuntu Community]
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]