Mr. Tux Goes To Ottawa

[Andrew Mathenge]

Nice job! Congrats are in order.

Andrew.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Ralph Pichie<thevillagegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been wanting to bring Ubuntu, and free software in general, to
> the attention of the public in Ottawa for a long time. The city has a
> very tech-savvy population, thanks to the many businesses based in
> Kanata and elsewhere, but finding a Linux machine anywhere was
> difficult, at best. Now, thanks to the generosity of John Gill, a
> local Linux user, a downtown business open to new ideas, and a
> sleepless night or three on the part of yours truly, Ottawa coffee
> lovers can enjoy their fair trade beverages and explore Ubuntu at the
> same time.
>
> The Umi Cafe, a co-op that offers fair trade coffee in Ottawa's
> Chinatown area, now has a Dell laptop running Ubuntu 9.04, configured
> for public use. The cafe was already a free wifi hotspot, but now it
> is the first on the network to have a machine available for patrons to
> use.
>
> Visitors to Ottawa (Bluesfest starts this week) can find this bit of
> free software goodness at 610 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, Ontario,
> on the SW corner of Percy and Somerset.
>
> http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=610+Somerset+St+W,+Ottawa,+ON&sll=50.233152,-97.119141&sspn=14.183087,56.513672&ie=UTF8&ll=45.414238,-75.704083&spn=0.007592,0.027595&z=15&iwloc=A
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