UBUNTU: Fwd: Is Ubuntu Green? Working together with 350.org and their Global Work Party on 10.10.10

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Doesn't this sound interesting? Chuck, your OlyLUG does this computer
recycling work, right? What do you all think about pursuing a link
with 350.org for our 10.10 release party?

Valorie

PS: I wrote to and got permission from Rubén to forward his email to you. :-)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rubén Romero y Cordero <huayra at ubuntu.com>
Date: 2010/8/31
Subject: Is Ubuntu Green? Working together with 350.org and their
Global Work Party on 10.10.10
To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
<loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>, ubuntu-ngo at lists.launchpad.net

Hey to you all,
Ubuntu Norway (and hopefully the Danish team ;-) are working with the
local groups of 350.org to organize our Release Party as part of their
program for the day. This makes a lot of sense as they are organizing
a "Recycling Market" in which you can come and exchange clothees, pimp
your bike or update your damn old PC to a new and fresh OS ;-)
I am just wondering if there are other intiatives working with this
group. They had many parties last year worldwide and combining efforts
would make a lot of sense.
I have made a list of reasons why I think we should participate and
what our message for the day should be:
Is Ubuntu and FLOSS in general green? The answer is obviously yes, for
many reasons which I tried to summarize here:
* Free/Libre/Open Source Software generates less shipping costs, less
garbish and more local development (socially and economically
speaking)
* It allows you to reuse your old Hardware for longer time so
production of machines all in all can be reduced if done in a proper
scale. So you end up using a better and environmentally friendly
platform.
* FLOSS is Green IT by default as it comprehends a Global community
goal acting from their locality and empowering everyone! besides
(taken from <http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1882>):
  * FLOSS lives in the cloud
  * FLOSS uses power more efficiently
  * FLOSS is made at home, by real people
  * FLOSS means fewer lawyers
This can also e an opportunity for the Ubuntu NGO team to show their
warez. As the aim of the Ubuntu NGO team is to make it as easy as
possible for charities, non-profits and other NGOs to benefits from
what OSS and Ubuntu have to offer.
Thoughts? Is this something other teams would like to engage with?
Another idea discussed with Denmark last week was to make Inter-LoCo
links under the Maverick Release Party (Ekiga or Skype transmitted
info flash from different locations.) If anyone is interested please
drop me a line! :-)
Best regards,
--
Rubén Romero
https://launchpad.net/~huayra
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