[vox] Dixon Public Library Kiosk

[Michael Dunham]

Heh - despite all the good jokes in this thread there are some 
interesting thoughts. I have several friends in Dixon and some family. 
The town is at least 70% Spanish speaking. If the kiosk is to be built, 
it should have both Spanish and English interfaces. And, as one little 
answer to the question she asked for her Spanish speaking users try: 
http://www.unixmexico.org I am a member http://www.cofradia.org 
http://www.red-libre.org http://www.linux.org.mx 
http://www.bsdcoders.org There are more - these are just some of the 
currently active ones. The reason to bring this up is in Mexico, open 
source is still pushing hard to gain a foothold. The president of Mexico 
uses it for his own website and is active in pushing the idea but the 
companies are stuck on the idea that if it isn't from a big US or global 
brand, it probably isn't any good. UNAM - one of the major universities 
in Mexico is active in advocating open source and most of the members of 
these organizations are grads or students. It is something to support 
among young Latinos. I have tried to help many with Windows based 
computers that they have purchased at great personal expense to 
communicate with their families and often cannot get to operate well 
because there is little available to them in Spanish. The organizations 
above represent a resource that can fill these gaps pretty well. Mike On 
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:50:06AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:

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>> "Unix, eh?" she sniffed disdainfully.  "No one uses Unix!"
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Oy. Where to begin with how wrong that is!!!?

-bill!

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