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80,000 school computers using GNOME in Spain

Submitted by drfickle on Wed, 2003-06-18 13:42. Gnome 2.x

Representatives of the Junta of Extremadura (regional government) announced that a sweeping initiative has put 80,000 computers in schools across that region. The
announcement came at the 4th annual GUADEC conference in Dublin, Ireland. See the full press release for more details.

Re: 80,000 school computers using GNOME in Spain

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-06-18 19:33.

This almost makes me wanna cry - out of pure joy.

Way to go, Extremadura!

I hope more regions - not only in Spain - will follow this wonderful example, and I hope both FootNotes and other media will bring more news from this project. Show how all kinda people are able to use Gnome like they've never done anything else, show stories of old people _finally_ able to send email to grandchildren thanks to the 33 general computing centres and if some student, and if some kid down there should find all this software interesting, get into programming and send in some major patches for the kernel, Mozilla, Evolution or whatever: be sure to have him interviewed in more mainstream computre magazines and have him tell the world about this nice project.

Way to go!

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