EVENT March 26, 2004: Books for Iraq

From: Don Marti (dmarti_at_zgp.org)
Date: 03/08/04

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Monday, March 8, 2004

    BookCrossing.com, Freedom Technology Center to Host
    "Books for Iraq" Event

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- BookCrossing.com and the Freedom
    Technology Center are teaming up to help jump-start
    Iraq's recovery with computer book donations.
    Linux and open-source software enthusiasts will meet
    at Mountain View's Freedom Technology Center all
    day Friday, March 26 to pack and ship badly-needed
    computer books to the new Linux Users Group (LUG)
    of Iraq. The event is sponsored by BookCrossing.com,
    a leading Internet community for book readers and
    book releasers.

    "We need all kinds of computer books," said Ashraf
    T. Hasson, co-founder of the new Linux Users Group
    of Iraq. The group is establishing a Linux Center
    in Baghdad to conduct training in all levels of
    Linux usage, administration and development. Today
    in Baghdad, up-to-date PC hardware and all software
    are readily available, but computer books are not.
    Iraq's growing population of Linux users need all
    kinds of computer books, not just Linux-specific ones.

    The Freedom Technology Center and BookCrossing.com
    will handle the packing and shipping, and invite
    supporters to simply bring a favorite technical
    book. Donors can pre-register their book at
    BookCrossing.com's website, and track the book's
    journey as it travels among the emerging high-tech
    circles in Iraq.

    Books will be accepted from 9am to midnight. From
    7pm to midnight, the Freedom Technology Center will
    serve pizza and provide demonstrations of its new
    Linux-based information technology training lab.

    About the Freedom Technology Center

    The Freedom Technology Center is a new non-profit IT
    training facility located in downtown Mountain View,
    California. Upcoming classes include an enterprise
    Samba class to be taught by Samba developer John H.
    Terpstra and a series of Linux administration
    classes to be taught by noted author and consultant
    Jim Dennis.

    About BookCrossing.com

    BookCrossing is the act of releasing books "into
    the wild" and then following their journeys and the
    lives they touch. BookCrossing.com is the website
    that makes it all possible. The site has more than
    200,000 registered users and tracks more than 880,000
    books. Join Today!

    For updates and directions, please see
    http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/events/

    For more information: Don Marti, Freedom Technology
    Center: dmarti@zgp.org or 510-814-0932.

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