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DATE | 2009-01-17 |
FROM | From: "Michael L. Richardson"
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects
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From lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Sat Jan 17 14:44:20 2009 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0HJiI7i011351 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:44:20 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n0HJiI0Q011350 for hangout-outgoings; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:44:18 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lest-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n0HJiFkq011347 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:44:18 -0500 Received: from [72.61.122.214] (72-61-122-214.pools.spcsdns.net [72.61.122.214]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1LOH5X1NX4-0007FE; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:44:13 -0500 Message-ID: <497235BF.1010103-at-michaellrichardson.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:47:11 -0500 From: "Michael L. Richardson" User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20080509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects References: <20090117064352.GA1772-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <600565.95261.qm-at-web38005.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090117193056.GA11089-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> In-Reply-To: <20090117193056.GA11089-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19oegL/o4NpMGN3G8PVSmUyjkLdDcgZe/FbUQk TklWgVsgZ5X0e4CSh/UmwwRQgMihyCeCIgksn9D8YWbn1eWHcC duMSzwmD4v6Y/oHVtJQUUop+StMmBnDfg9JW3UBkFw= Sender: lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
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Ruben Safir wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:38:49AM -0800, Elfen Magix wrote: > >> I was thinking of what happened to the Marcus Garvey Center? >> I believe in that setting up small community computer centers in those places that do not have but need that we can expose them to Linux. >> >> > > > That is great. Find some centers. Michael was working with Marcus > Garvey. So I'm not sure what happened. I'd still like to do the > C++ Workshops and the GTK Workshops. Can't we do this biweekly > on a serious basis? > > Ruben > > > >> --- On Sat, 1/17/09, Ruben Safir wrote: >> From: Ruben Safir >> Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Projects >> To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com >> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 1:43 AM >> >> Hey Guys >> >> I have a problem. I can plan projects, meetings and activities from now >> until when hell freezes over but the trouble is that it is impossible to >> get anything productily done without the cooperation, companionship and >> help of friends that NYLXS once provided. >> >> NYLXS was one time the hurricaine of free software activity for the >> region, but we did everything together. it was the people behind NYLXS >> that made it work. All the enthusiasm, power, and dynamics that pushed >> us forward was based on our compainionship. >> >> I don't know what happened. Perhaps it is me, or the changing economy, >> or the state of volunteerism in todays society, but i can't seem to get >> anyone to move an inch off there asses anymore. >> >> I tried to get several projects up and running, particularly the C++ >> program, classes and Freedom-IT and it just seems we are more interested >> in talking about stuff getting done than actually doing it. I posted >> C++ programs for 3 months until I burned out. >> >> If we are going to have another meeting in the near future, I don't want >> to argue and plan. I want to get some hacking done, and get some >> membership drive working. I talk until I'm blue in the face but can't >> push us past point one. I'd love to get more programming studies going >> but I can't do it by myself. Even I become exhausted. >> >> Ruben >> >> -- >> http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff >> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software >> >> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like >> Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir >> 1998 >> >> http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir >> 2002 >> >> "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" >> >> "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to >> our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own >> society." >> >> "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be >> damned.< >> You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been >> attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed >> that one." >> >> © Copyright for the Digital Millennium >> >> >> >> >>
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