Chris's Random Ramblings
Both Kelly and I really needed a break, and given this is the time of the year it starts getting pretty cold in Canberra we decided to head to somewhere tropical. So the week before last we went off to Aitutaki, a small island in the Cook Islands. Kelly has a great write up about our holiday here.
While we were there we ended up talking to a guy who is an IT teacher on the island. He'd recently seen a CNN program about Open Source and Linux and he was quite interested in find out more about it. Until he moved to the island about a decade ago, the school didn't have any computing courses, nor computers for the students to use. Now they're able to run computing classes, mostly on using Windows and Microsoft applications. But he also thought it would be good for students to get exposure to other software like Linux, and seemed especially interested in them being able to look at source code to programs.
Internet access there is both very expensive and slow so I said I'd post him some Linux CD's. I'll burn some Ubuntu CDs for him, maybe Edubuntu as well. Given the lack of good access to the outside world, I thought a DVD snapshot Wikipedia would be great, but that doesn't seem easy to do. I'd welcome any other suggestions that people may have for useful things to send.
