Mr. Tux Goes To Ottawa

[Ralph Pichie]

I've been wanting to bring Ubuntu, and free software in general, to
the attention of the public in Ottawa for a long time. The city has a
very tech-savvy population, thanks to the many businesses based in
Kanata and elsewhere, but finding a Linux machine anywhere was
difficult, at best. Now, thanks to the generosity of John Gill, a
local Linux user, a downtown business open to new ideas, and a
sleepless night or three on the part of yours truly, Ottawa coffee
lovers can enjoy their fair trade beverages and explore Ubuntu at the
same time.

The Umi Cafe, a co-op that offers fair trade coffee in Ottawa's
Chinatown area, now has a Dell laptop running Ubuntu 9.04, configured
for public use. The cafe was already a free wifi hotspot, but now it
is the first on the network to have a machine available for patrons to
use.

Visitors to Ottawa (Bluesfest starts this week) can find this bit of
free software goodness at 610 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Ontario,
on the SW corner of Percy and Somerset.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=610+Somerset+St+W,+Ottawa,+ON&sll=50.233152,-97.119141&sspn=14.183087,56.513672&ie=UTF8&ll=45.414238,-75.704083&spn=0.007592,0.027595&z=15&iwloc=A