Saturday, March 12, 2011
The Austin Prometheus Project
Unfortunately, Anthony Gilbert's situation is not uncommon.Anthony is a senior in high school. He is a talented musician, an honor roll student and he aspires to study music in college.
He has a plan, he has a goal and he has the discipline to make it all happen.
Anthony now has a computer, and The HeliOS Project was privileged to give him one.
But there's one thing Anthony doesn't have...and probably wouldn't have for a while.
Anthony Gilbert has no access to the Internet.
Skipping on down...
The Austin Prometheus Project.
We will set up a dedicated fund to provide our HeliOS kids with Internet service. Now, the point I want to make clear is this. This is an Austin problem and I am going to seek an Austin solution. We'll update our website soon to announce the presence of the program and to make people aware of it.
I'm going door-knocking. I will approach businesses within the community to let them know what we are doing and what they can do to help.
Often, the families that we present computers to will find a way to get connected...but for people like Anthony and his dad, it is a luxury. It's instances like these that Austin Prometheus will focus.
To this point, and with few exceptions, we've been fairly well ignored. Many Austin businesses and companies have been asked to help us when we needed it, and the results were poor. Time-Warner, Clear and Cricket have been contacted about this problem and we were either ignored or our in-office appointments were canceled by them and never re-scheduled.
Read More...
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/03/austin-prometheus-project.html
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