On Friday, March 26th, Linux Users Group of Iraq members and supporters,
Freedom Technology Center supporters and BookCrossing members came together
to donate books to the LUG of Iraq, which is establishing a Linux Center in
Baghdad to conduct training in all levels of Linux usage, administration and
development.
Rich Bodo of FTC
Around 2pm, a collection of books (mostly mailed to the Center) had been
opened and stacked.
Box carnage!
We rearranged some tables and the books to provide more space for the
crowd of people coming later in the day.
Don Marti of FTC checking out a book
Walk-ins came throughout the day, as well.
The Open Source, Perl-based game Frozen Bubble was used to... err... test
the projector. Yeah, that's it!
This photo was originally of three people, but two decided to transform
themselves into blurs by moving right as it was taken!
Chips, salsa, muffins and other snacks were available. (Pizza came later)
FTC has a pinball machine...
...and a few video games, including "Blasteroids"!
The book collection grows!
The crowd grows, too!
New books coming in, and getting a once-over.
A few hundred books were collected by the end of the day!
Folks chatting.
Frozen Bubble starts getting some action.
A cute puppy makes a stop to the Center.
Dogs love Open Source too, apparently!
And babies love dogs!
At the end of the night, we watched TRON.
"Hey, I know! Let's digitize an orange!"
