On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, trevor brooks wrote:
> > > Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. We > have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know > where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the dollar > and tell where we are going. I was hoping you could give me some info. It would be > very much appreciated. THANK YOU!!!!! > > > Trevor Brooks <snip> Hi Trevor, Debian is a project to produce the Debian Gnu/Linux operating system and other the Free software it uses. The 'Gnu' in Gnu/Linux are the tools created by the Gnu Project started by Richard Stallman. The 'Linux' in Gnu/Linux refers to the operating system 'kernel' created by Linux Torvalds. All (if not most) of these projects are Free Software. They are project to promote Freedom: Freedom to use the software, Freedom to change the software, Freedom to Study the software, Freedom to redistribute the software, and other Freedoms. Contributing to the Debian Project does many things. Debian is part of a larger community of people who volunteer their time, creativity, knowlege and money to empower people around the world who speak differently languages, are blind or are poor to be able to make computer do what they want. Most of there efforts result in software like web browsers or word processors. The difference is that these project use the GPL. The GPL is a legal license that says that if you want to make the software better, you can. But you must tell others how you made it better, so that others can benefit from your work. You selflessly contribute to making computer software better. This makes you part of a community, a community of people who want to make things better for others. Most of Free Software project are international and thus give you a change to interact with people all over the world, it broadends you views. This list is an example of one of the ways the 'debian users' community interacts. There are 'debian user' lists in some 10 languages. In our list, there are people from all the different continents. These lists represent ways that other people (users) ask for help from others. We on the list freely help other people to solve their computer problems. We also talk about other things like world politics, what you have for lunch or trains used in the UK. Debian is basically a project to freely help make things better around the world mostly through computers but also by creating a community of people. -kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
