[ripe-list] RIPEng

folk have been teaching addressingm forwarding, LANs, routing, services
workshops since 1988.  props to Alvise Nobile of ICTP who organized the
first workshops.  folk such as the NSRC have vast open source materials
and tools to teach these things.  no need to reinvent the wheel.

imiho, we need to make some initial scoping on audience.  do we want to
target tweens and early teens with programming and computer concepts?
or so we want to target older students who have grown up with laptops,
the internet, and teach networking and services?  or ...

my personal take is that there are a bunch of folk focused on serving
the younger set and making the next generation of programmers and UI
designers.  and that is not really our main bailiwick.  we should focus
on network and services engineering.  but i am biased.

to put my money where my mouth is (sorry for another idiom), i volunteer
to teach basic routing, but need folk to help organise, recruit, ...
and i don't think it is the ncc's role this season, as folk are beating
the ncc up over budget.

randy