Free Software & The Queensland Flood Crisis

[IKT]

Indeed this does seem like a decent idea, there are several issues though:

Where to acquire pc's.
How to acquire pc's.
How to ensure the pc's are delivered to people who need them.

- ikt

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Nathaniel <nathaniel73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Firstly I'd like to say Hello to all the list members as this is my first
> post here. I've been using Linux for 2 yrs now & have been totally Windows
> free for the past 18 months (& loving it!). I've mainly used Ubuntu starting
> with 8.04 but have also ventured away to Fedora, Crunchbang and Linux Mint
> for the wife's laptop. Ubuntu seems to fit me best & I'm currently very
> happy with 10.04.
>
> Now onto why I started this post.
>
> I have been following the shocking events in Queensland for the past
> several weeks. I'd like to extend my thoughts and best wishes for everyone
> on this list and your families that may be caught up in the terrible floods.
> I hope your all safe, dry & that the Linux box is high enough to survive :-)
>
>
> Anyway whilst I was reading about the terrible floods it occurred to me
> that Free Software could play a part in the rebuilding phase of Queensland.
> Peoples homes and businesses have been devastated by the flood waters and
> the most important thing for them is getting back to work to provide an
> income to rebuild their lives.
>
> Windows and Ms Office cost a huge amount if you have to buy them off the
> shelf and especially at this time when money is tight to non-existent it is
> just another expense to add to an already long list.
>
> So my suggestion is this. If we could get some cd's burnt with Ubuntu on
> them and pass them around to people such as businesses, charities,schools &
> families that have lost their computers to flood damage it would help them
> to get up and running again as well as being a great promotional exercise
> for Ubuntu and Free Software in general.
>
> Ubuntu already comes with everything needed to start work, Firefox,
> Evolution and OpenOffice. To further simplify things, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS could
> be used instead of the latest 10.10. Then simply set Synaptic to only
> download LTS updates thereby minimising the number of update notifications
> they would have to deal with.
>
> I really hope we can make the most of this opportunity both for the people
> of Queensland and for Ubuntu and the Open Source community.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Nathaniel
> (Perth, WA)
>
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