El jue, 22-10-2009 a las 19:00 -0400, Martin Owens escribió: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:23 -0500, John Abbott wrote: > > Dolev, > > I'm curious about your program for distribution among the poor. > > How do these "poor" have access to computers? If each is expecting a > > CD then each must have a computer to install it on. I'm trying to get > > my head around this idea because I live on the border between Texas > > and Mexico and we are surround by genuinely poor people who could > > really use computer access for a multitude of reasons. But none are > > equipped with computers and we have been directing them to the Library > > in Mission TX where there are numerous Linux based computers > > available. > > Here in Boston we refirb computers using a PXE server, saves time and > not many CDs required. > > Martin, > > It's very important do not loose the real objective of Ubuntu, is to be an alternative as an operative system. We must spent more time teaching how to use the Ubuntu system. The effort used delivering the CD's is a waste of time if nobody teaches how to install, how to resolve the basic configuration problems or where obtain more software for the system.
A good example of event where the people learn to use Linux distros (specially Ubuntu ;) ) is Flisol in Latin America. I invite you to tell us more of your program, sometimes we could give you a hand how with less CD's obtain more results. As architect Mies Van Der Rohe said: "Less is More". -- Mauricio Peñaloza S. Mob: +56 9 9676 3414 Ubuntu user #22420 Linux user #450898 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
