I've been living in the lovely South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for nine months now, all expenses paid, in exchange for putting in time making computing and communication better here.
I'm working in the South Pacific as an IT volunteer, and let me tell how, the things that FOSS makes possible are great.
A local NGO, which has a total of $0.00 to spend on hardware, is running a dial-on-demand Internet server with proper firewalling features on a Pentium 100 machine that they purchased in 1997.
This same organisation has just been chosen to pilot a project that will use HF radios to create whopping 1 Kbps email links between isolated villages in this island nation. FOSS is the *only* viable contender in terms of robustness, affordability and the ability to even run on the kind of low-cost, low-power equipment we need for this.
I just posted some observations on FOSS in development to my online journal yesterday, too.
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... But somebody's going to have to explain to them that http://yakse.cx/ is *not* a veterinary resource.
I've been living in the lovely South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for nine months now, all expenses paid, in exchange for putting in time making computing and communication better here.
It's called 'volunteering'. Try it some time. 8)
I couldn't agree more.
I'm working in the South Pacific as an IT volunteer, and let me tell how, the things that FOSS makes possible are great.
A local NGO, which has a total of $0.00 to spend on hardware, is running a dial-on-demand Internet server with proper firewalling features on a Pentium 100 machine that they purchased in 1997.
This same organisation has just been chosen to pilot a project that will use HF radios to create whopping 1 Kbps email links between isolated villages in this island nation. FOSS is the *only* viable contender in terms of robustness, affordability and the ability to even run on the kind of low-cost, low-power equipment we need for this.
I just posted some observations on FOSS in development to my online journal yesterday, too.