[ubuntu-za] hi from italy

[Jean Gruneberg]

Francois Loubser wrote:
> 
> Wow, I've always wondered about whether people at school
> level would be interested in learning 3D. You wouldn't
> happen to know how I would go about getting schools in the
> Cape Town area interested in this?
> 
Sleeping with the Art and tech teacher is a definite plus!

At my wife's school there are a number of issues at work 
that make this kind of thing easier...

IT Master / Administrator that is very keen to try new things.

Headmaster that will find the funds (even if we have to 
fundraise for a spacial project) for a project if you 
present a decent case for it.

A link with Nissan in that they are sponsoring schools to 
come into dealerships and workshops (I will get the 
documentation and forward it to you)

I can link this in that a client of mine has agreed to let 
us bring the kids around the same day that we do the nissan 
thing, the client is an engineering shop and we can show the 
kids the whole shebang from the 2D and 3D cad work down to 
the CNC milling machines / Laser cutters / bendbrakes etc.

Then we will link this up hopefully in the classrooms with 
CAD packages running on the Linux workstations.

All of this is covered in the schools curricula and so the 
schools need to make some sort of attempt at doing it.

Jean