Is Ubuntu Green? Working together with 350.org and their Global Work Party on 10.10.10

[Rubén Romero y Cordero]

Hey to you all,

Ubuntu Norway (and hopefully the Danish team ;-) are working with the local
groups of 350.org to organize our Release Party as part of their program for
the day. This makes a lot of sense as they are organizing a "Recycling
Market" in which you can come and exchange clothees, pimp your bike or
update your damn old PC to a new and fresh OS ;-)

I am just wondering if there are other intiatives working with this group.
They had many parties last year worldwide and combining efforts would make a
lot of sense.

I have made a list of reasons why I think we should participate and what our
message for the day should be:

Is Ubuntu and FLOSS in general green? The answer is obviously yes, for many
reasons which I tried to summarize here:

* Free/Libre/Open Source Software generates less shipping costs, less
garbish and more local development (socially and economically speaking)
* It allows you to reuse your old Hardware for longer time so production of
machines all in all can be reduced if done in a proper scale. So you end up
using a better and environmentally friendly platform.
* FLOSS is Green IT by default as it comprehends a Global community goal
acting from their locality and empowering everyone! besides (taken from <
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1882>):
  * FLOSS lives in the cloud
  * FLOSS uses power more efficiently
  * FLOSS is made at home, by real people
  * FLOSS means fewer lawyers

This can also e an opportunity for the Ubuntu NGO team to show their warez.
As the aim of the Ubuntu NGO team is to make it as easy as possible for
charities, non-profits and other NGOs to benefits from what OSS and Ubuntu
have to offer.

Thoughts? Is this something other teams would like to engage with?

Another idea discussed with Denmark last week was to make Inter-LoCo links
under the Maverick Release Party (Ekiga or Skype transmitted info flash from
different locations.) If anyone is interested please drop me a line! :-)

Best regards,
--
Rubén Romero
https://launchpad.net/~huayra
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