Technology professional looking to donate time with Ubuntu

[theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch]

Am 28.09.2012 13:05, schrieb Christopher Rozewski:
> Many of you reached out showing your support for my cause, to repurpose
> computers using free and open source software for donation to
> organizations in need. I'd like to announce the beginning of my
> volunteer drive.
...
>     What I'm looking for is an organization with a need and who would be
>     open to using FOSS as opposed to proprietary software, donated
>     hardware, and volunteers.
>
>     Is anyone interested in helping?
>
>     Sent from my iPad

Chris,

Thank you for your initiative. I wish you luck and success. I have tried 
the same in an organisation in Switzerland (linuxola.org) and we use 
LTSP extensively and sometimes Edubuntu. The main problem is the lack of 
local support, even in South Africa, the home of Ubuntu, as the 
distances are usually too great. The only successful projects are those, 
where staff is permanently available. I have therefore suggested to 
switch to mainly use live distributions, but this also isn't easy, as 
many PCs don't boot from USB easily or at all or don't have CD/DVD-drives.

You might get better responses on Linux-related mailing lists if you 
removed the advertisement from Apple "Sent from my iPad", didn't 
repeatedly send the same message (i.e. quote yourself), and didn't send 
emails containing HTML and cookies. Most lists I suppose including this 
one expect users to observe "netiquette" or similar guidelines.

Best, Theo