Ubuntu Linux being used into a community project

[sparch]

Hi,

At my organization, we are providing a program of Digital Inclusion, the logo of program is this

http://www.***.edu.br/imagens/logoinclusao.jpg

as you could see its from Brazil, the Linux utilized on it is Ubuntu, both on 12 boxes and on the server. All of them connect to the server (IBM 206 xSeries). Ubuntu is perfect for our purpouses, I really have to thanks the Ubuntu team for the medias CDs.

Ps.: this is a partnetship with the federal government.

The project is a bus that have 12 pc, it will go over the city on quarters, offering courses about Internet and OpenOffice.org for poor people.
At first time the courses will be at morning and at night, on afternoon the bus will be open for community to use internet and OpenOffice.org.

[Stormy Eyes]

Rock on, man.

[newbie2]

congratulations man ...nice indeed :) :) :)

[macgyver2]

That is really great! Seems to me it's a prime example of ubuntu (and Ubuntu) at work! Good job!

[N'Jal]

Fantastic! The world could use more project's like this.

[FLeiXiuS]

That is one bad *** bus. Great idea! I've been trying to assemble my war-van. Still working on it :-). I have though gotten a Ubuntu touchscreen to work in my friends G35.

What could be better then a monitor that flips out of your dash, touch screen ready, loaded with ubuntu? :-D

[drizek]

awesome. thats a really cool bus and a really cool idea.

[Knome_fan]

Wow, great project! :grin:

[sapo]

wow!

I m brazilian and never new about this project till now!

In wich city is this bus? is just one or are you gonna expand to another places?

Is it a government project?

man.. this is really awesome! :D

[ubuntu_demon]

great project!

[BWF89]

You should put the mouse on the pull-out trey next to the keyboard. But other than that great project.

[SqdnGuns]

Love it!!!

I'm moving to the Philippines after March of next year and have had a grand vision for a while now of doing this type of thing for some of the provinces outside of the city. I have a buddy who has a few companies in Manila and here in the states that I will be approaching with this.

[kayas80]

Hi,

At my organization, we are providing a program of Digital Inclusion, the logo of program is this

http://www.***.edu.br/imagens/logoinclusao.jpg

as you could see its from Brazil, the Linux utilized on it is Ubuntu, both on 12 boxes and on the server. All of them connect to the server (IBM 206 xSeries). Ubuntu is perfect for our purpouses, I really have to thanks the Ubuntu team for the medias CDs.

Ps.: this is a partnetship with the federal government.

Org page: http://www.***.edu.br/

The project is a bus that have 12 pc, it will go over the city on quarters, offering courses about Internet and OpenOffice.org for poor people.
At first time the courses will be at morning and at night, on afternoon the bus will be open for community to use internet and OpenOffice.org.

http://www.***.edu.br/professores/daniel/onibus/_DSC00765.jpg

http://www.***.edu.br/professores/daniel/onibus/_DSC00773.jpg

http://www.***.edu.br/professores/daniel/onibus/_DSC00767.jpg

http://www.***.edu.br/professores/daniel/onibus/_DSC00769.jpg

http://www.***.edu.br/professores/daniel/onibus/_DSC00774.jpg


Thats Great!!!

[Kyral]

Powah To The People!!

[sparch]

wow!

I m brazilian and never new about this project till now!

In wich city is this bus? is just one or are you gonna expand to another places?

Is it a government project?

man.. this is really awesome! :D

Cascavel / Paraná.
O projeto foi idealizado pela Faculdade Assis Gurgacz em parceria com o governo federal!
Estarei postando novas fotos aqui.

I'll be posting more pics later...

[poofyhairguy]

Coolest bus I have ever seen.

[weasel fierce]

If thats not the "Ubuntu spirit" I dont know what is

[bjweeks]

Now only if we can get a few of those in the U.S.. :wink:

[Brunellus]

Love it!!!

I'm moving to the Philippines after March of next year and have had a grand vision for a while now of doing this type of thing for some of the provinces outside of the city. I have a buddy who has a few companies in Manila and here in the states that I will be approaching with this.
Good luck getting that going on.

At least in Brasil, projects like this have the backing of the federal and regional governments... in the Philippines, you will be faced with both governmental incapacity and a market completely saturated by pirated software of all kinds. Why go through the trouble and heartache of Linux on the desktop when (relatively) few pesos in the marketplace will get you Windows?

[SKLP]

Cool bus! :)

[void_false]

Congrats! This is really great project!

[vignesh]

Really cool project.Ubuntu is getting ooler and cooler ! \\:D/

[benplaut]

a school in our area did this with some windows computers last year.

the corruption and procrastination in the school system is horrible-

the computers are 5 years old. the bus is now complete, but hasn't gone, nor probably ever will, becuase it needs an oil change and nobody is going to bother to do it.

the reason the computers are so old is that the tech teacher, who does nothing but surf the internet all day, didn't bother to plug the laptops into the bus. they were just sitting there, with only 5 minutes of work left to hook it up. it remained like that for 4 years

i hate some things about Hawaii

[sparch]

Up cus I added some new pics :smile:

[blackbirdXXX]

Wow. Really nice.
That rocks!!!:)

[Marcos.Rufino]

Congratulations to you and all your team, Daniel.

I must confess that I'm really disappointed with the actions of the brazilian government in the open source world. There is a lot of fuss in the international media about the compromise of Brazil with Gnu/Linux but I can't see those many promises beeing put into effect. As far as I know the use of open source in the public administration is lagging behind all the promised schedules.
Maybe our big problem is the lack of people like you that are skillful and eager to go ahead with new ideas. I think projects like the one you are taking part should be more publiziced in the country.

[Kapre]

Congratulations! This is a very cool project. With 3 more buses coming (as reported on the 1st post), which I hope Ubuntu(Edubuntu?) is still the OS that you'll use, is a good advertisement not only for our community but the Linux OS in general.

:KS :KS :KS :KS :KS

[Omnios]

Its great that Ubuntu Linux helped this happen. Thats a great project by the way.

[gflores]

Simply amazing!

[newbie2]

Hi,

At my organization, we are providing a program of Digital Inclusion, the logo of program is this

http://www.***.edu.br/imagens/logoinclusao.jpg

as you could see its from Brazil, the Linux utilized on it is Ubuntu, both on 12 boxes and on the server. All of them connect to the server (IBM 206 xSeries). Ubuntu is perfect for our purpouses, I really have to thanks the Ubuntu team for the medias CDs.

Ps.: this is a partnetship with the federal government.

The project is a bus that have 12 pc, it will go over the city on quarters, offering courses about Internet and OpenOffice.org for poor people.
At first time the courses will be at morning and at night, on afternoon the bus will be open for community to use internet and OpenOffice.org.
Just wondering...is this great project still 'on the road' ?:mrgreen:

[cariboo907]

The op hasn't update the thread in 6 years, I think we can let this thread rest in peace. Closed.