Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Hello from Tamarind Tree, India

[Michelle <mic...@ta...>]

Hello Bill,

Such a pleasure to hear from you.

We are constantly looking for volunteers and interns who understand 
systems and open source software given the lack of skilled human 
resources in my village in India. We have set up our learning system on 
Moodle and are now populating courses on it. This is at 
www.tamarindtree.org.in

So if you know people willing to help us both online and coming here for 
a couple of months in India, let me  know. We are located on a farm in 
rural india and it can be a lovely experience.

Thanks,
Michelle






On Monday 30 March 2015 09:50 AM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Hi Michelle, thank you so much for sharing this.  It's always great
> to hear when Tux Paint and other open source software is making
> a big difference! :)
>
> -bill!
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:54:46AM +0530, Michelle wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> Greetings from India! Wanted to share our successful and regular use of
>> Tux Paint with tribal (indigenous) children - all first generation
>> learners at our school - Tamarind Tree in a small village in north west
>> Maharashtra. (www.tamarindtree.org)
>>
>> Our machines are on Ubuntu 14.4 and the Tux Paint version is 0.9.21.
>>
>> We have children from ages 3-10 and are using it across these ages to
>> create pictures, write words associated with a picture, make sentences,
>> and learn shapes.
>> I am looking to share more ideas of how best we can use it for our
>> teachers.
>>
>> Our school is an experiment in equity and using open source tools is
>> ingrained in our philosophy for a better world. I really appreciate the
>> work done on Tux Paint and I am sure all you developers would be
>> thrilled and happy to see underprivileged tribal children half way
>> across the world using and enjoying your work. So really a big thank you
>> for Tux Paint.
>>
>> Look forward to getting ideas from this forum,
>>
>> Regards
>> Michelle
>> Tamarind Tree school
>> Sogve Village, Dahanu, Maharashtra
>> India
>> www.tamarindtree.org
>> twitter: @tamarindtree2
>>
>>
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