Date: Monday, September 18
Listening: Minutemen, Coltrane, 4311 freesound compositions
Writing: to the Suncoast Linux Users Group

Hey, Dylan, this is Trey, here. I'm the new USF St. Pete guy that you met at MOSI during your Free Software Day outreach session. I signed up for SLUG this morning, and I look forward to becoming involved in the community.

I appeciated the way the sign-up page provided space for narrative about what folks new to the community might be looking for, as this provided a space for me to make plain that I am a Linux novice, but at the same time, very interested in learning more by clustering my research and teaching around open source technologies and attendant ethics of commons-formation.

I know I rattled on about my \"big hairy audacious goals\" at MOSI, but I'm sure you met with a lot of folks during your outreach this weekend, so I thought I'd repeat my aims, here:

I am seeking community where I can learn practical skills and community-forming capacities via Linux and open-source applications and culture. To this end, I will volunteer for SLUG, and create a writing-intensive course for examing SLUG issues in a university classroom context on an open wiki that can be audited or taken for full credit at USF St. Pete.

I am interested in the role of distributed technology and emergent rhetorical strategies of community building in schools and community centers in the Bay area. I hope becoming a member of the SLUG community will help me investigate feasible hardware and software solutions for the design, implementation, and maintenance of small wireless networks in low-SES areas. At the same time, I am designing an outcomes-based, writing-intensive multimedia composition course that will investigate the capacities of wireless as a technology of community-formation, and attempt to uncover local and diffuse histories of "community entrainment" practices. In accordance with the learning module model, this course will be a workshop space, not a lecture course. As such, it will remain open for revision and available for linking with other courses taught throughout the Bay area focusing on related issues. Students enrolled in the initial courses could find a space in this course to continue to pursue, document, and expand upon SLUG projects by hosting tutoring sessions, organizing colloquia, writing proposals, and designing research methodologies, and of course do all the other sorts of things that SLUG does already.

I heard Mario saying that SLUG was overdue for a loose social gathering. I am looking forward to that big BBQ in the park!


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