[ubuntu-uk] Some good publicity about Ubuntu

[John Levin]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Having read through the follow up article on that woman who had Dell 
> laptop running Ubuntu, I found this in the comments...
> 
> http://www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9675283
> 
> It's a nice story about Ubuntu.  It appears that a soilder in Fort Sill, 
> Oklahoma has been refurbishing old PCs and passing them on to school 
> students.  It's nice to see some nice coverage other than the on going 
> flame war on the WKOW web site.
> 
> Does anyone do anything similar here in the UK?
> 
> The nearest I have got to this is the Exwick Community Centre project 
> although I'd love to do something like Freegeek (www.freegeek.org) but I 
> wouldn't know where to start looking to get funding for such a project.
> 

Not quite like freegeek, but there is computer aid
http://www.computeraid.org/

And perusing their website, they've called for FLOSS programmers to help 
with

Project Proposal: USB-based free and open source assistive technology 
solution for blind and visually impaired users.

The objective of this project is to develop and distribute a free and 
open source suite of portable software applications installed on a USB 
stick, allowing blind and visually impaired users worldwide equal and 
effective access to computers running the Windows operating system.

http://www.computeraid.org/vifoss.htm

hth

john




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