Free Software & The Queensland Flood Crisis

[chris at martin.cc]

I have 2 machines that I would be happy to donate
Already installed with Ubuntu

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Chris Martin
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:57 PM, IKT <noname420 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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