For the past 3 summers I worked for Computer Ed High Tech Camps outside of Boston, MA. (http://www.computercamp.com) We have campers as young as 8 years old and as old as 17. The courses range from "Intro to the Internet," "keyboarding," "Beginning Basic," "Computer Art," or "Build and Repair a PC" to "Advanced Web Publishing," "Advanced Legotechnics," "Advanced Java," "Advanced C++," "3d Modeling," "Computer Networks," "UNIX" etc... (the courses are on the web page.) We tended to get from 180-280 campers per session. (so even with the wide age range there are a lot of kids your child's age) And we get a fair number of campers from other counties (Last year I know we had a few from Germany, some from France, one from Kuait, one from Mexico, one from Spain, one from Itally, and probably a few others I don't remember)
But the main reason I would recomend sending your child there is the great staff. Composed mainly of college students, every one of them really knows their stuff, and they love doing it. I know of one counselor who is currently working for Monster Games, another who (I believe) was working for SquareSoft for a while, and another who is currently working for VALinux and Sourceforge. (Me, well I'm still in school, but feel free to check out one of my OS products... Althea... Link at bottom...)
Last year I actually looked into what other camps are offering, and the other camps (who I won't name) tend to have one general "programming" class or an "Internet Class." Well, Computer Ed has about 40 computer related classes to choose from. (plus a few sports oriented classes to get some of that energy out of them...)
So, yeah, if your kid is interested in Computers I'd definately recommend Computer Ed. I think their number is 1-888-2COMPED. Tell them Ethan gave you their number.
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Check out http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/HandheldsApps . Someone (Tor-Åke Fransson) cut down the memory requirements of althea (http://althea.sourceforge.net) to make a great GUI IMAP e-mail client ideally suited to a low memory computing device.
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Check out http://althea.sourceforge.net for a spiffy looking Open Source, free as in speach and beer, stable IMAP e-mail client for X windows.
Yeah, we opensourcers tend to hate monopolies. However, in this case it might be a good thing. Ideally everyone would be able to know if anyone else was online right? It wouldn't be a problem is Alice used AIM, Bob used ICQ, and Charlie used Jabber. Ideally they could all gossip about Dicks new haircut together online, right? Well AOL has almost cornered the market, and there is SOME chance that the AOL/TW merger will succesfully force AOL to allow others to interoperate. If this happens, I predict we all get what we want.
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For a stable, well designed, easy to add features to, pretty e-mail client for X check out http://althea.sourceforge.net
All right. This may sound great, but from what I have read, this is basically a linux pc in a neat box. If you want a linux PC designed for video related stuff in a neat box, sure buy one. If you don't care about the neat box and possibly the video capabilties, then I would guess you will be able to find nicer linux hardware solutions elsewhere.
Might make a nice e-mail station though. Just install Althea and you're good to go.
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For a stable GTK IMAP client check out http://althea.sourceforge.net
OK, assume this is there because minors can't be held responsible to uphold a contract. Now, to fix this, we say minors can't use the product. Does nobody else see a loophole here? Anyone who can't use Corel Linux because they are too young according to the contract, doesn't have to listen to the contract. If that statement does anything, it points out that a user who is a minor doesn't have to obey any of the User Licence.
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But the main reason I would recomend sending your child there is the great staff. Composed mainly of college students, every one of them really knows their stuff, and they love doing it. I know of one counselor who is currently working for Monster Games, another who (I believe) was working for SquareSoft for a while, and another who is currently working for VALinux and Sourceforge. (Me, well I'm still in school, but feel free to check out one of my OS products... Althea... Link at bottom...)
Last year I actually looked into what other camps are offering, and the other camps (who I won't name) tend to have one general "programming" class or an "Internet Class." Well, Computer Ed has about 40 computer related classes to choose from. (plus a few sports oriented classes to get some of that energy out of them...)
So, yeah, if your kid is interested in Computers I'd definately recommend Computer Ed. I think their number is 1-888-2COMPED. Tell them Ethan gave you their number.
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For a stable IMAP E-mail client for X-windows, check out Althea (http://althea.sourceforge.net)
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Check out http://althea.sourceforge.net for a spiffy looking Open Source, free as in speach and beer, stable IMAP e-mail client for X windows.
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For a stable, well designed, easy to add features to, pretty e-mail client for X check out http://althea.sourceforge.net
Might make a nice e-mail station though. Just install Althea and you're good to go.
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For a stable GTK IMAP client check out http://althea.sourceforge.net
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you can cancel the two linuxes and get TurboCare?
OK, assume this is there because minors can't be held responsible to uphold a contract. Now, to fix this, we say minors can't use the product. Does nobody else see a loophole here? Anyone who can't use Corel Linux because they are too young according to the contract, doesn't have to listen to the contract. If that statement does anything, it points out that a user who is a minor doesn't have to obey any of the User Licence.