[CREATE] open source | open hearts

[ginger coons]

Teaching design competencies is already something Dans La Rue does in
collaboration with the Department of Design and Computation Arts at
Concordia University. But it would be pretty cool if, for those actually
interested in doing something like what Gregory has suggested, there were
some way of interfacing with Dans La Rue (or a similar organization) on even
something smaller and more casual than workshops.

-ginger

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM, celine celines <celinecelines at gmail.com>wrote:

> Could we create and LGM-dans la rue event
>
> >> inspired by :
> http://www.danslarue.com/en/services/intervention-programs/education
>
> and have volunteers give workshops to people who need this education to be
> able to use software to get out of the streets? It might not be one workshop
> that will save this youth, but we can try designing a workshop that teaches
> the basics.
>
> Could LGM do that at Foulab or at Studio XX?
>
> Céline.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:42 PM, ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>wrote:
>
>> A suggestion that might be appropriate in Montreal: Dans La Rue (
>> http://www.danslarue.com/en ), which provides services to at-risk youth.
>> They've got a nice history of teaching things like software/design
>> competencies.
>>
>> -ginger
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This rather cheesy subject line is my lead-in to an idea that came up in
>>> my head earlier today.
>>>
>>> There may be insufficient time to implement this in Montreal, but the
>>> idea is that, rather than just being a bunch of geeks that breeze in and
>>> breeze out of town, leaving money in our wake, we might find a way each year
>>> to connect to the community where LGM takes place.
>>>
>>> Is there some volunteer task we might do one evening while at LGM that
>>> makes some kind of connection with the host city and its community? A simple
>>> one might be helping out in some setting such as a place for the homeless. A
>>> less simple one might be some volunteer effort that in some way connects to
>>> the expertise of attendees in computers, technology, graphics.
>>>
>>> What does this do for us?
>>> An important question. For attendees it offers a way to at least briefly
>>> immerse ourselves in some aspect of the environment where LGM takes place,
>>> makes us a bit less "outlandish" both from our perspective and those in the
>>> host city.
>>>
>>> It offers some notoriety, something that sets LGM apart from other
>>> tech-oriented conferences. We might find ways to participate in some
>>> fund-raising as a means to simply hand over some amount of money to some
>>> group, but I think that personal involvement says a lot more than the
>>> dollars would, and even those who cannot contribute money can give their
>>> time. It wouldn't hurt for other open source conferences to follow our lead.
>>>
>>> So I'd like to see if this resonates with anyone else.
>>>
>>> Greg
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>>
>>
>>
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ginger "all-lower-case" coons
adaptstudio.ca
647.865.7757 (Toronto)
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