Free Software & The Queensland Flood Crisis

[Nathaniel]

IKT, They are all good questions that you raise, I guess I was thinking
along the lines of people getting replacement bare bones towers themselves &
then we just provide the OS.

Maybe it would be possible to talk to a major retailer about doing a deal on
basic tower / monitor combos for flood victims. What does everyone think
about that possibility.

Chris that's a very generous offer, the thing is, If people were going to
donate machines who would coordinate the collection, storage and
distribution of them.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:36 PM, chris at martin.cc <chris at martin.cc> wrote:

> I have 2 machines that I would be happy to donate
> Already installed with Ubuntu
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> Chris Martin
> m: 0419812371
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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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Nathaniel

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