What is the Shuttleworth Foundation?

By Craig | Published: November 7, 2006

This foundation based in South Africa is doing some very interesting work with Open Source software.

‘If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world’
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  1. ag
    Posted November 12, 2006 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

    Shuttleworth have contributed to the development of Toast, a public access open source software kiosk. Lovely device. Burns software of choice direct to CD.

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