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 -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
