Freedom Toaster

[Ahmed Toulan]

May be it should be just a screen with everything else hidden (keyboard,
mouse..etc) . With a clear message like "Please insert CD then press Enter",
so we will have only one big single button.

That's what I call usability :)

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:57 AM, unknown <unknown at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an idea to turn the thing into an Arcade Machine/KIOSK type
> counter.  Where everything is enclosed except for the keyboard and mouse and
> slot for the cd/dvd drive, there are many ideas out there for turning ubuntu
> into kiosk type booths.
>
> 2010/5/5 Hisham Kotry <hkotry at live.com>
>
>>  As part of the group's efforts to promote Ubuntu I'd like to propose
>> building a Freedom Toaster and placing it somewhere convenient on a college
>> campus. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just an old PC with an optical
>> media writer in it. The idea came to me when I learnt that Mohammed
>> "Sensiva" Saudi was remastering an Ubuntu CD -one that ought to provide an
>> out of the box experience on-par with what MS Windows users are used to- for
>> distribution at an upcoming event because new users might not have the
>> necessary know-how or bandwidth to do it themselves. We could all chip-in to
>> buy the necessary hardware and I think that it's much cheaper on the
>> long-run than producing dozens of CDs/DVDs for every event.
>>
>> You can find out more about Freedom Toasters at:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster .
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
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