[mdlug] MDLUG - Talk to Dearborn Henry Ford Centenial Library about use of spa ce

[Tony Bemus]

This sounds great!  I have a talk about Internet safty that I gave last year at a neighborhood association.   
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On March 3, 2014 8:20:48 PM EST, "gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com> wrote:
>I talked to a couple of the support staff at the library today.  They
>seemed very positive and supportive.  They will talk to the management
>of the library next.  Hopefully, we will have word soon.
>
>If this is approved by the library then we will have some options.  We
>could continue to meet in our current location for the next several
>meeting or we could move the meeting to Dearborn.  We can talk about
>this in our meeting this month (same location as last month).
>
>They also were interested in any additional training or workshops that
>we might do. They get requests from people looking for help with some
>specific needs. They mentioned they had two people ask about video
>editing. They have older people who want to know how to use Facebook. 
>
>They currently have some Micosoft Office training.  I said we could do
>something with open source.  They were aware of Libra Office (they
>called it Open office at first).  They thought it might be good to put
>some open source video editing software on their computers for the
>public to use.
>
>They have a computer room with a dozen "older" computers.  They want to
>upgrade.  I told them about LTSP and some of the things Mat was able to
>do in the old location in Inkster.
>
>---------- Original Message ----------
>From: "gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com>
>To: mdlug at mdlug.org
>Cc: discuss at mug.org
>Subject: MDLUG - Talk to Dearborn Henry Ford Centenial Library about
>use of spa ce
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 02:11:23 GMT
>
>I found someone at the City of Dearborn Henry Ford Centenial Library to
>talk to about use of some space to have our meetings.  They are
>wondering what we can do for them.  I suspect I can explain what we are
>all about.  I was just hoping to get ideas from the members.
>
>We can have our normal, technical (okay, boring) unstructured
>discussions.
>Maybe we can provide some technical presentations.
>
>Does anyone think we can put together more formal training? 
>Education series for the masses? 
>Community help for non-technical people provided by geeks?
>Focus sessions on topics of interest in technical areas?
>Geek topics - scifi, science, gadgets.
>Programming classes.
>Security (wifi use, key management, web use tips).
>Career day.
>Vendor product display.
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