Re: Just presenting myself
John Habermann <j_habermann-m/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.nonprofit |
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| Organization | The Wilderness Society |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Edgar MP HackLab sounds similar to a group I have been involved with CATALYST www.cat.org.au which is located in Sydney, Australia. They try and support various activist groups to utilise technology in their efforts to get active. cheers On 20 Nov 2003 22:50:33 +0100 Edgar Bursic <[email protected]> wrote: > hello, > I'm Edgar from Pula, a town in the northern adriatic on the croatian > coast. I'm involved in the work of the Monteparadiso HackLab > (www.fazan.org - just in croatian for now), and the Rojc.Net portal > for NGOs in Pula. > The MP HackLab is situated in an ex military barracks where about 80 > NGOs have found their home legally or by squatting. We give free > internet access to everyone in that building, and we have for that 14 > computers all on Debian. Since the NGOs here usually use Win stuff we > try to convince them to switch to GNU/Linux, so we burn them for free > Debian, but aslo all the other kinds of GNU/Linux, we assist them. For > now the interest for Linux is not so high but it is starting to be > "cool" to speak about Debian. > I think we have here a good playground to test Debian-NP on various > initiatives and NGOs. > I saw some of you from the mailing list on Vis at SummerSource. > > Edgar > PS: I'm not a programmer. Just an advanced user and I'm promoting the > GNU/Linux/Debian idea... > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- John Habermann http://www.wilderness.org.au http://www.ngogeeks.com