We were so very honored to have Manolo Morales join us at the Boys and Girls Club's Hale Pono clubhouse in Ewa Beach. Here he interviewed several children who graduated from our Computer Guts program.

Members and volunteers with the Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) installed a computer lab in the Science Department at Kailua Intermediate School on Saturday, March 18, 2006. The effort was supported by a donation from Ned and Ann Dewey. This is the second computer lab sponsored by the Dewey's and HOSEF at Kailua Intermediate. The contributors have been brought together by Derek Esibill, Science teacher at Kailua Intermediate. The computer lab consists of a server and 16 computer terminals for students to use. The computers have been donated by local businesses and/or individuals, then refurbished by HOSEF. Each computer comes with a wide range of educational software, including word processing, spreadsheets, drawing, web and multimedia tools. All software, from the Linux operating system to the applications, are open source and freely available.

While many folks wonder if an average person can use Linux on the Desktop, HOSEF has been
proving it for years.  Not willing to rest our laurels on the youth, schools, and non-profits, we are taking the Gospel of Free and Open Source Software to Global Telecom leaders at this year's Pacific Telecommunications Council's Conference. We were there in 2005, but someone forgot to tell these Telecom Execs that Linux was too hard for them.