Today Dr. George Pacheco and Brian Beck will go dip into the last batch of donated/cannibalized computers for the upcoming TexOS Project 2 . We have a number of parts from computers, plus a few left over from last event, to piece together the lab of 12 computers we will be donating soon.

The application process is underway via our non-profits we are working with. At the end of next week we will go through and select the participants for the class.

Because this event will deplete our last batch of computers, we plan on having a city wide spring computer drive. We hope to get enough working computers to install Open Source Software on and push back to other non-profits as well as needy individuals in the San Angelo community.

Shared Governance Transparency, Public Data, No Vendor Lock-in and you save your Taxpayers Millions!… Kudos Rio de Janeiro!

Now, how about we do this in Texas!

Read the full post here: http://www.opensource.org/node/593

Here is some of the feedback we received from the students on the last day of TexOS Project 1.

These are in no order and are a mix of responses from “Things you Learned” and “Things you Enjoyed”

• “How to Live Boot”
• “Learned what Proprietary means”
• “Learned that Windows in Proprietary”
• “How to Install and Update”
• “Being able to watch Movies” [Open Source Movie Projects: Big Buck Bunny & Sintel]
• “Keystrokes”
• “Teachers”
• “What Open Source Software is”
• “The opportunity to learn all this”
• “Being able to meet Mr. Beck and Dr. Wegner”
• “I enjoyed learning how to make videos, create presentations and installing things on the computer”
• “How to LiveBoot, install programs, and access the terminal.”
• “Playing Games”
• “How to edit Videos”
• “being out of the house ”
• “Software Manager”
• “How technology works”
• “How to download things to my flashdrive”
• “Learned how to make the screen rotate [Compiz Effects]“
• “Making new Friends”