[school-discuss] Linuxastronomy.org

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Some of you may remember "pixo," Eugene Clement, who used to work 
for Mandrakesoft.  I hadn't heard from him in quite a while.  H 
just sent me a message telling me about his new personal project, 
 <http://linuxastronomy.org>.  He says:

"The goal is to built a remote controlled telescope accessible 
from the internet.

"It run on linux of course. Meanwhile, users are free to use what 
ever they like, I do not like to force people to switch from Ms, 
Apple, etc. products to linux, I let them free to first observe 
what we are doing, later, they will probably end up with a 
machine running linux at home, or at work.

"I invite you to take a look at it. the "volunteers page", has a 
lot of pictures, to give you an idea of what we do.  The 
teenagers are also proud to have a homepage on it.  I let the 
ones that help on the project, to have a web page. Not all of
them, did one yet.

"I realize the site has a lot of broken english. I struggle for 
help on the pages.  I have some very good helpers, that are doing 
a fine job in their spare time, but it is far to be done."

I think this is a very interesting project, and one well worth 
supporting.  Please take a look at it and give Eugene and his 
crew whatever encouragement you can.

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