Open source helps housing effort
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| Open source software will serve at the heart of a project management system
| developed in a humanitarian effort to design housing for the needy.
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| Communities in areas affected by disasters such as Hurricane Katrina
| and the South Asian tsunami are intended benefactors of the system.
| One particular project involves designing inexpensive homes for Gulf
| Coast families in Mississippi. Also, designers in places such as
| Afghanistan, Angola and Chile are putting projects on the network.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/010188.html
Related:
Free Works in Africa
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| Fortunately for the school, eTux was being formed by a group of
| local Linux geeks. It provides networked computers to disadvantaged
| schools and communities. As its name implies, eTux uses Linux and
| open-source software.
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| eTux scrounged some secondhand workstations and transformed them
| into thin clients. The thin clients were then connected to a Linux
| Terminal Server running Edubuntu, the educational version of
| Ubuntu Linux--free software backed by South African Internet
| mogul Mark Shuttleworth.
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http://inpics.net/isolemamba/
Open-source system helps victims cope with disasters
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| The Sahana Free and Open Source project was built over three
| weeks to help coordinate tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka by
| a group of volunteers from the Sri Lankan IT industry, in
| collaboration with IBM.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=42480
Working Linux Emergency Response System
Undermined at Homeland Security by Microsoft Lobbying
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| LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is
| saving lives. But recently, Microsoft maneuvered into taking the system
| away from a Free Software vendor.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57181/
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