Re: Development project in Africa
please keep the list in the loop it was said: > Because my download speeds are slow and I am trying to obtain several > distributions of linux or BSD, downloading ISO images isn't a > feasible option. I will be doing development work in Angola. I > haven't been assigned a position within the country yet, but I'll > probably be working at a teacher training college. The projects that > IICD trains Development Instructors for are listed on the Humana > People to People website (www.humana.org). There are several DNS > schools within Angola, and I'll probably be in Huambo, Cabinda, or > Luanda. They already have some courses at these schools to teach the > students about computers, but I'm trying to extend the scope to cover > open source alternatives. Hello, I admire your efforts to help educate future teachers, especially in Africa. I was there (Tanzania) for awhile myself some years ago. The last thing anyone on that continent needs to do is help finance Gates's next manuscript purchase. If sending you a copy of my favorite OS will assist you, count me in. Please send me your postal address (off list), and I will send you all the CDs for 5.2.1-Release including the ports collection. By the time you get to Angola, 5.3-Stable will be out, so I don't see the point in sending you 4.10 (current production release). Realize that bug fixes, updates, etc. happen almost daily to both the OS and the ports, so when you do your install, you will need to update everything via cvsup. Because cvsup downloads what are essentially diff files and does its updates with those, the bandwidth consumed is significantly reduced from downloading the iso files. Regards, Stheg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Development project in Africa -- More Information
I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach people how to use a linux or BSD system. I am testing several distributions for ease of use in a learning environment and would like to test your distribution. I would like to know how I might be able to have a free copy of the latest stable version of your distribution shipped to me or how I could get a desktop or laptop computer preinstalled with your distribution donated to me. First of all, IICD, where I'm currently training to be a Development Instructor, is located in Williamstown, MA, USA. We are trained to work on projects in Sub-Saharan Africa for Humana People to People (www.humana.org). I just started my training period at the beginning of August and will be going to Angola. I'm leaving in February and will be there for 6 months. There are several projects that are currently running in Angola, but I haven't been given my specific assignment yet. All I know is that I'll be working at one of their DNS schools. (I'm not sure what DNS stands forit's a Danish acronym--Humana is a Danish NGO) The DNS schools are teacher training colleges. There are already programs at the DNS schools to educate students on the basics of computer use. Most of them will never have used a computer before. I'm going to try to focus on teaching how to use office applications, web browsers, and email clients. Therefor, any machine that I might get donated would be used as a "home desktop" computer. We have some training software that runs on all of the boxes here at IICD that can only be used on windows. So I hope to acquire a total of 4-5 desktops or laptops to use as testbeds to run various distributions of linux or BSD. I can then decide which will be the best to use for teaching others. If I can get more than 4-5 machines, I would like to have them shipped to where I'll be in Angola. I am also going to be on the road fundraising for the months of October and November (or however long it takes me to raise $6,000 by canvasing) so it would be nice to have at least one laptop. I hope to be done with the testing stage by then, but I would still need time to come up with a 6 month curriculum. I've used several distirbutions of linux in the last 2 years (Mandrake, Red Hat, Gentoo, Slackware, and Arch) and already have begun making an outline of what I hope to acheive, but I want to know what system I'll be able to work on with my students before I make a detailed curriculum. Any donations could be shipped to me at: Jason Keeney 1117 Hancock Rd Williamstown, MA 01267 USA If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. Thank you, Jason Keeney - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Development project in Africa
it was said: >I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International >Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am >interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people >about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach >people how to use a linux system. I am testing several distributions >for ease of use in a learning environment and would like to test >FreeBSD. I would like to know how I might be able to have a free copy >of the latest stable version of FreeBSD shipped to me or how I could >get a desktop or laptop computer preinstalled with FreeBSD donated to >me. Please contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you have any >questions or would like more information on this project feel free to >ask. > >Thank you, >Jason Keeney Hello, You don't need to have any discs shipped to you. FreeBSD is available for free from a number of sites around the world. You can find a list of servers at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html (URL may have wrapped) You don't say where in Africa you are, but one of the sites on the above list is in South Africa. You really need to d/l just the iso of disc 1 if you want the base system and ports skeleton. Of course, you could d/l just the floppy images and do an ftp install to minimize your online time even more. What exactly is the project you're working on and in which country? Perhaps we can be of service we if had more information. Regards, Stheg ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Development project in Africa
I am an international volunteer at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD - www.iicd-volunteer.org ). I am interested in starting a project in sub-Saharan Africa teaching people about Free and Open Source Software. I would also like to teach people how to use a linux system. I am testing several distributions for ease of use in a learning environment and would like to test FreeBSD. I would like to know how I might be able to have a free copy of the latest stable version of FreeBSD shipped to me or how I could get a desktop or laptop computer preinstalled with FreeBSD donated to me. Please contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you have any questions or would like more information on this project feel free to ask. Thank you, Jason Keeney - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
