[Inschool] Re: [KLUG Members] Working Together to get Linux in schools

[Adam Williams]

>I'm excited to hear about the Building Bridges project and have
>forwarded your email to several people who may be interested as
>well.  You've convinced me to sign up to the inschool mailing
>list :)

Welcome.
 
>>In any case, I think that both the Kalamazoo and Comstock schools
>>would be great places to try some of this out. Not only are they
>>close by so WMU students can really get involved, they are also
>>high profile. Plus, I can recruit high school students who want
>>to do networking, programming, etc.
>Sounds like everyone could benefit from that -- area organizations,
>WMU, and high school students alike.  I've done computer programming
>mentoring with the Kalamazoo Area Math-Science Center before.  While
>this would be somewhat different, I'd be interested in committing
>some small amount of my time, say an hour a week, during the school
>year, to help high school students with this kind of work.  I can
>offer advice and pointers on networking, programming, hardware to
>some extent, that kind of thing.

I'd also be willing to devote some time,  mostly in an advisory or 
help-with-the-stumpers capacity.  If it is set up correctly I think this 
can be done remotely.  I'm not much of a programmer but I know networking 
and administration pretty well, with a reasonable grasp on 
relational database issues.