On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:21:07 -0400 (EDT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, trevor brooks wrote: > > > > > > > Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. > > We have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know > > where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the dollar > > and tell where we are going. I was hoping you could give me some info. It would be > > very much appreciated. THANK YOU!!!!! > > > > > > Trevor Brooks > <snip> > Hi Trevor, > Debian is a project to produce the Debian Gnu/Linux operating > system and other the Free software it uses. The 'Gnu' in Gnu/Linux are the > tools created by the Gnu Project started by Richard Stallman. The 'Linux' in > Gnu/Linux refers to the operating system 'kernel' created by Linux > Torvalds. All (if not most) of these projects are Free Software. They are > project to promote Freedom: Freedom to use the software, Freedom to change > the software, Freedom to Study the software, Freedom to redistribute the > software, and other Freedoms. > > Contributing to the Debian Project does many > things. Debian is part of a larger community of people who volunteer their > time, creativity, knowlege and money to empower people around the world > who speak differently languages, are blind or are poor to be > able to make computer do what they want. Most of there efforts result in > software like web browsers or word processors. The difference is that > these project use the GPL. The GPL is a legal license that says that if > you want to make the software better, you can. But you must tell others > how you made it better, so that others can benefit from your work. You > selflessly contribute to making computer software better. This makes you > part of a community, a community of people who want to make things better > for others. Most of Free Software project are international and thus give > you a change to interact with people all over the world, it broadends you > views. > > This list is an example of one of the ways the 'debian users' > community interacts. There are 'debian user' lists in some 10 languages. > In our list, there are people from all the different continents. These > lists represent ways that other people (users) ask for help from others. > We on the list freely help other people to solve their computer problems. > We also talk about other things like world politics, what you have for > lunch or trains used in the UK. > > Debian is basically a project to freely help make things better around the > world mostly through computers but also by creating a community of people. > -kev > > Finally, a creative mentality. Regards,
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