SKSI/MeetingNotes/2021-10-20 Meeting

Present: Timothy Faasoo, William, Varunesh, Wayne, Dave, Scopa Tooala

Introductions for Timothy, an tech colleague of William's.

William explained that Nehru is focused on school exam preparation right now.

Wayne reiterated the pair of demonstrator pilots for school technologists, and there's been

Wayne suggested William, Varunesh, and William discuss technical planning for MiLLL facility and, in particular, the lab computers.

Dave explained netbooting Linux in a computer lab, and the cost and maintenance advantages. William is keen to understand more.

Wayne queried William about teacher's ability to install FOSS generally to support our courses - many of those computers are locked down blocking them from installing and using the FOSS apps.

Wayne and Dave continued the informal presentation on Mastodon (distributed FOSS social media, like Twitter) started a couple weeks ago. Suggested that the MESC staff or the MiLLL initiative might be interested in doing a Samoan language translation of the interface to contribute to the developers as that might be quite compelling for Samoan educators and learners - to see digital technologies in their own language!

This meeting had two recordings - one and two. This is a video recording.