Edubuntu in Pakistan, was: HELLO EVERYONE!

[M. Fioretti]

Mohammad,

I'm reposting your whole message to the list with a new, more detailed
subject, so more list members will read it. I also wrote to you
privately about this, please look at that message too.

Good luck with your project!

Marco Fioretti
digital rights writings -> http://mfioretti.com

On Tue, May 05, 2009 12:50:32 PM +0500, Mohammad Usman Butt wrote:

> My name is Usman and I'm from Pakistan. I studied and lived in the
> USA for 20 years before moving back in the spirit of ubantu. I'm
> involved in the education sector right now and we are trying to get
> Edubuntu installed on a large scale deployment by the government
> (Any guesses on who we are up against?). Yeah, it's good old MS who
> is trying to eat up a large chunk of the budget. More on it later,
> wish me luck for now! Let me just say though, if this works out,
> there will be 100K plus students using Edubuntu everyday in
> Pakistan.
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