Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams
Hi Shirish,
I forgot to comment in my las email:
Here in Brazil there is the "hacker bus" ("ônibus hacker" in portuguese).
http://onibushacker.org
They got the bus through crowdfunding.
The bus stays in São Paulo, but they travel to other cities especially to help in free software events.
Best regards,
----- Mensagem original -----
> De: "shirish शिरीष" <shirishag75@gmail.com>
> Para: "Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana" <phls@softwarelivre.org>
> Cc: "debconf-team" <debconf-team@lists.debconf.org>, "Petter Reinholdtsen" <pere@hungry.com>
> Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2016 14:10:02
> Assunto: Re: [Debconf-team] Questions for the DebConf18 teams
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies as this would be a bit of a long mail.
>
> Just to take the idea of a debian float further, the firefoxOS bus
> idea was mine but not exclusively. The most earliest-modern precedents
> I found some years ago rose from the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson"
> suit/case that established the legality of Jim Crow segregation in the
> U.S. Irene Morgan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Morgan , Rosa
> Parks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks , the fascinating
> history of BSCP (was mix of emotions when I first read it)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters#Civil_rights_leadership
>
> and of course Bayard Rustin's influence on it
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin#Influence_on_the_Civil_Rights_Movement
>
> Freedom riders in 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders
>
> Then there were the high 60's where free love buses were part of the
> popular counter-culture - Specifically
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_(bus) and many others of the
> same era.
>
> So the notion of using bus for change has there been for a long long time.
>
> The credit for the success of FirefoxOS bus though rests squarely on
> the shoulders of Mozilla India, as it's something to share an idea and
> something else altogether to figure out the funds, the logistics and
> do it. Unlike the 60's, except for the driver and a mechanic, almost
> everybody on the bus that I know were either students or working
> professionals. So they all took a day or two or more from work or
> college and were part of that bus. They used the bus as an improvised
> temporary school which had laptops and other SBC's (single board
> CPU's). IIRC it was majorly funded by Mozilla i.e. fuel, lights almost
> everything.
>
> Coming back to now, you will need to figure out how sustaining it can
> be. If you can figure out the funds, maybe it could be part of the
> 2017 Carnival too, you don't have to wait till the debconf to do that.
>
> One way to explore could be using booths to do awareness building,
> which we have been doing since 2014 and will be doing again this year
> -
>
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/gnunify-science-day/
>
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/science-day-2016-at-gmrt-khodad-and-learning/
>
> While we have been doing minidebconfs we also experimented with going
> to schools on week-ends
>
> https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/
>
> https://harishnavnit.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a-noble-gesture-giving-back-to-the-society/
>
> This went on till 2 years, till when a new Principal came in and only
> would let in "registered entities" such as Red Cross and others which
> frankly speaking is/was too much "work" . We all did it as much for
> the students as well as bonding with each other and learning skills
> and bits of knowledge from each other in a relatively stress-free
> environment.
>
> One another initiative that has been happening but which requires
> dedicated funds, personnel in learning are Mobile learning centres.
> These came in a big way around 2010 .
>
> There was some natural disaster - don't remember if it was the Ladakh
> floods (2010) or something else but saw a few starting with Mobile
> Centre Units
>
> http://www.aviva.com/media/news/item/india-aviva-launches-mobile-learning-centres-with-save-the-children-to-bring-underprivileged-children-closer-to-education-12923/
>
> http://www.ndsindia.org/navjyoti-development-society-mobile-learning-centres.php
>
> https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hp-wow-mobile-learning-centers-india/
>
> http://anchalindia.org/education-mobile-learning-centre/
>
> http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/tara-mobile-crches-launches-mobile-learning-centre/
>
> The only international centre I know is -
>
> http://www.mobilelearning.co.nz/
>
> There probably are others. It is also possible that this may be a very
> old idea in the global context (to use buses as a school in itself). I
> did read about pretty big houseboats being used as schools in Thailand
> circa 2008 or earlier so not much of a novel idea .
>
> I/we came to know/have it in public consciousness from 2010 onwards only.
>
> So I guess you have lots on your plate to chew on. It may be possible
> to do something like above as many countries do have budgets to fund
> such kind of initiatives, just need to know the right
> politics/politician and have a team which would be ready to commit
> time and soul.
>
> Debian Edu https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ or skolelinux headed by
> Petter Reinholdtsen would be an excellent person to connect (CC'ed) if
> you want to start of something similar. He probably would have lot of
> tips and tricks to share.
>
> I am sure Gunnar with his experience as a teacher would have lots to offer too.
>
> @Gunnar - I just wanted to have a sense of distances involved between
> cities. While the carnival would surely have been an attraction, from
> what little I have heard, the city is cosmopolitan in nature, so
> visiting anytime is cool.
>
> Look forward if you are able to kickstart something :)
>
> Fun fact : India taking cue from Brazilian Carnival, had long ago
> appropriated the float idea, lookup 'Durga float' and 'Ganesh float'
> in generic video sharing sites and you should be able to see them.
>
> Till later.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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