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Hello,

I am a teacher's aide at Oakland High School (California), where I
and a teacher in the math department have just finished setting up
a computer lab.  All of the machines in the lab were donated, and
the school district has been unable to help us out with anything more
than a room for the lab.  The lab has taken four years to get on its
feet.

This is the first year that the lab will be fully operational; we
spent the greater part of last year setting up our UNIX system.
We're preparing a number of projects for this year, but first, we
need your help!

Specifically, we need people to give us technical support for
our Altos UNIX box, to help us set up a SLIP connection (once we've
found someone to give us a feed), to help us set up e-mail, Usenet,
irc, ftp, telnet, and gopher software.  Most of these things will
probably necessitate that you can bring your body down to the
school at some point, ie. that you are local to the Bay Area, but we're
having some problems with our Altos system right now where e-mailed
advice would be just as helpful.

(A number of people on the net responded to a notice like this that
I posted a few months ago; if you are one of those people, please
write to me again, since a disk crash wiped out the files where I
had your addresses stored.)

Our program last year was much more informal than this year's will
be, since the lab was still being set up.  We had a few students
experimenting with the UNIX machine, mainly using the 'bc' calculator
for algebra, consumer math, and logic problems; some of our students
worked on DOS machines, learned basic computer theory, experimented
with the Internet, and learned to test and repair IBM-PC compatible
machines.

This year our projects will include:

-  bringing in English, History, World Cultures, Foreign Languages,
Journalism, Government, and other classes into the lab to participate
in Internet-related correspondance and research projects;
-  making the 'bc' calculator an integral part of the algebra and
consumer math curriculae;
-  teaching simple programming as a way of helping students become
familiar with basic principles of logic;
-  offering extracurricular courses in computer programming and
hardware repair;
-  building a software library of self-tutoring programs;
-  giving students access to scholarship and internship information
through the Internet.


If you're interested in helping us out, please contact me at 
dsl@netcom.com  or at home (evenings until midnight Pacific
time, 510-549-2473).  Let us know what sort of help you can
offer, and when you'll likely have the time (weekends only?  during
lunch?  not until November?  etc).

Also, please redistribute this notice to local systems, like
company-wide bulletin boards, or BBS systems that don't
receive Usenet, or even hardcopy on the CS department door!

Finally, we are, as always, looking for equipment donations,
particularly of the IBM PC sort -- drives, modems, printers,
rusted-out hulls, virtually anything.


Thanks for your time and all...


best,
Dave Liebman