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December 24, 2008 | News
What's Your Holiday Gift to the Linux Community?
In case you forgot to put the Linux community on your list or in case you just couldn’t find anything for them, you’re in luck. There’s a last minute gift opportunity:
Here is what you have to do:
- Head over to the fourm (or IRC channel, if you must) of your favorite distribution.
- Help people out. Even if your a newbie, you can probably still help out.
- Post links to the threads (along with your username) where you helped someone out in the comments. (If you choose IRC, perhaps you could link to the log and give your name? – or just be creative.)
That’s it. There are no prizes for helping the most people out, but I might say “thank you” or something. You have until midnight on the 25th (eastern time) to post your comment. Even if you just get the chance to help one person, post it here. The idea is to see everyone’s combined effect. Happy Holidays!
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Maternitus,
I do something similar, building Linux computers for disadvantaged kids. I made a custom version of Ubuntu for them, with kid-friendly games and a simplified XFCE desktop, and I’d be happy to mail you an install CD. If you’re interested you can check it out at http://www.quinncoincorporated.org/ and you can email me at info@quinncoincorporated.org
It’s a good thing the troll hasn’t learned to spell my name properly.
Maternitus Says:
“My next project, paid out of my own (nearly empty) pocket will be building computers from older parts, install Linux on them and just give them away to children of less fortunate families.”
I suggest that you find a place to volunteer your labor like Wincycle in Windsor, VT in USA (http://www.wincycle.org) that accepts otherwise discarded computers for recycling. Note that Wincycle operates a ‘thrift shop’ where computers are available to schools, non-profit organizations, and the general public at low prices.
Indeed the IBM Thinkpad T40 laptop computer that I am currently running (originally ran Windows XP Professional, now runs Kubuntu 8.04) came from Wincycle about a year ago.
As the Linux ‘guru’ in such a place, you ought to be able to offer Linux as a viable alternative to Windows, run computer classes on using Linux instead of Windows, troubleshoot specific user problems, etc. Last but not least, you ought to try to reserve several very different machines during beta testing of a new release of a distribution (like Ubuntu) to look for machine specific issues, as well as garden variety glitches!
Hello there,
As an enthousiastic Linux-user I am posting, pretty much, twice a week a post about Open Source subjects and Linux in particular. These are written in Dutch, so most of the visitors from here can not understand them.
Also do I volunteer in a project to get the elderly involved in internet and computers. I use Mandriva and Ubuntu for that, with a desktop made ready for them: big fonts and icons, speech-to-text-to-speech, a webcam with Skype and a good guidance.
My next project, paid out of my own (nearly empty) pocket will be building computers from older parts, install Linux on them and just give them away to children of less fortunate families. This way they can learn about computing, have somehow access to technology and learn about the internet.
http://www.hoevenaar.com/maternitus/
My christmas got screwed, but don’t let yours be!
Well, here are the threads I have been helping out in. Don’t know if I have completely solved any problems yet, but things seem to be progressing:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1020687
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6430702
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1020664
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6436572
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1020498
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1017737
Merry Christmas, everyone!
>What’s Your Holiday Gift to the Linux Community?
Me.