Presentation on Swaziland Computer Society
Category: Peace Corps
A fantastic Swazi-Pi Project has come to Indiegogo!
This is an exciting post! A few months ago I wrote a post about using the Raspberry Pi as an alternative to a traditional PC. Now one of the volunteers is helping a local primary school to implement a computer lab running on Raspberry Pi computers!! This project has the potential of dramatically impacting the future of the students at the school. It’s quite exciting, because even better than my initial look at using the Pi along with traditional peripherals, the PCV is going to use Motorola lapdocks!
Please check out the project, donate and share it with everyone you can. This project can change the way computer labs are thought of in the country. Once it is running, people will point to it and realize there is an easier, cheaper, and better way to get technology in front of the students here who so desperately need tech integrated into their lives.
I’m supporting this project, and I really hope you will too!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/raspberry-pi-computer-lab/x/2969458
Random Hacks of Kindness!
I’m one of the attendees for the second Global Hack-A-Thon in Pretoria, South Africa. This event is being put on by Random Hacks of Kindness and the University of South Africa.
I can’t say enough about the professionalism of the people I’m working with, their eagerness to help and collaborate with people from radically different backgrounds and radically different skill sets.
Our application is coming along very well, we are working towards developing the lightweight calendaring software I posted about recently. This is a fantastic opportunity and I will remember this for a long time.