Linux Society

The Linux Society was created as an offshoot of a perl group called PUNY, Perl
Users of NY.

It was a typical users club through the tech boom period, and then became a
student oriented mentoring organization. In that incarnation it proved that
talented high school students could implement bleeding edge Internet services
as professionally as any corporation, and have great fun also. Both the
hardware and the software were free, either from the e-mutualist open software
movement (mostly GNU) or from the trash pickup. It was a global victory, in a
sense, showing that the majority of the world can join the Information Society
with the support of the first world.

After the students moved on to college, there was a lack of direction for the
organization. I have had my own entrepreneurial projects, notably a portable
computer called the Thinman, which I still believe could be viable and could
add much value to humanity.

At the moment my career is as a long haul trucker. I am hoping to work
in-house in a trucking firm, but at the moment I am over-the-road.

With the exception of occasional spamming by East Indian recruiters, the group
has been silent, but few have actually left.

I have been involved in the "Information Society" since learning about the UN
symposium which, surprisingly, defined the diabolical nature of information in
human society today. I have also been studying the Information Society and
have been greatly influenced by Lewis Mumford who wrote "Technics and
Civilization." You can read parts of it on http://amazon.com .

It seems appropriate that the Linux Society should be directly involved w/ the
Information Society. It also seems appropriate that Linux Soc projects should
directly benefit the whole human race in creating two-way communication to the
most remote areas.

WiFi, for instance, is radio communication but not the only radio
communication. Much more appropriate, I think, for reaching all corners of the
world is Ham radio.
http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html

The VIA EPIA mini-itx motherboard is also appropriate since it is a low wattage
but generic motherboard which has attachments for 12v usage -- the common car
battery.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp

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