On Friday 28 May 2010, Domingo Palo wrote: | El 28/05/10, Diego Saravia <[email protected]> escribió: | >>> Pero ahora, ¿de donde sacaste que Ubuntu dá trabajo a | >>> programadores africanos? | >> | >> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-za | > | > esa gente es empleada de canonical? | > | > o es un grupo de voluntarios | | Es parte del ecosistema de mercado libre y software libre que | elabora Mark. Grafiquémoslo: | "The project was started as one solution to overcome the | difficulty of obtaining Linux and other free and open-source software | in South Africa, where the restrictive telecommunications environment | makes downloading large software files prohibitively expensive." | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster | | "tuXlabs | | The Shuttleworth Foundation's tuXlab project was initiated | in-house in 2002 with the purpose of establishing eighty open source | software-based computer labs in schools in the Western Cape. Since | then the project has expanded to a point where they have successfully | installed more than 130 labs in 3 provinces and have now spun out | into a sustainable company, Inkulueko technologies. | | The primary objective of the tuXlab project is to create an | innovative and replicable model for establishing cost-effective | computing labs that can be utilised as a medium for delivering | educational curriculum to the learners. | | The project also seeks to develop a robust and sustainable open | source volunteer community which will not only be able to service the | existing tuXlab installations and provide momentum for new | installations, but will also serve to broaden and deepen the open | source software skills pool in the region. It is their hope that the | volunteer group will one day be empowered enough to assume full | control of the day-to-day running of the project. | | The tuXlab project uses the skills and manpower of the Schools | Linux User Group (SLUG) to install their tuXlabs. SLUG is a group of | volunteers and was founded by Léhane Boonzaaier, Chandré de Wet, | Gerald Webber and Wesley Breytenbach in order to facilitate the | implementation of the tuXlab project." | | "The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South | Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now | forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger (and now defunct) | Cape Province. Prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa in | 1910, it was called the Cape Colony (see the History of Cape | Colony)." | | De un modo similar a Evita en Argentina con respecto a la | educación y el conocimiento en general, Ubuntu lleva el software de | código abierto a los barrios de su país africano. Sigo sin comprender | cómo una lista de e-mail como SOLAR general con tanta gente | inteligente y progresista de pronto se encuentra a la derecha de la | derecha expulsando y discriminando los proyectos positivos que ayudan | al avance de nuestra sociedad. Será que ya viven en el comunismo real | avanzado y superado? Desde dónde escriben sus e-mails, desde el país | de la utopía? | | El mundo está construido en barro y debemos mancharnos con él | para hacer de la inerte tierra una bella escultura que sea la envidia | de todos los dioses. | | Con todo respeto. anda a la mierda palo j -- Fingerprint = EBFC CDE9 E57C 3EAD 65B1 2A59 5364 48C8 EACF 7357 Public key = 0xEACF7357 at http://pgp.mit.edu