August 27, 2005
Safe travels gaucho
Posted by bopuc at August 27, 2005 06:35 PM
So, Steven's probably sitting on the tarmac at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport right now, beginning a 2 month trip to Cuba and, I suspect, to the core of himself.
No, he's not going to go sit on the beach. He's brought with him his bicycle, his Powerbook, his dSLR... and all his knowledge and experience in IT, networking, web communication. Not to mention a desire to do some good.
Over dimsum yesterday, I asked Steven exactly what his plan is. At least, where is going to start, what's he going to do.
Well, first he's meeting with a leading cuban paediatrician in hopes to have cuban participation in mother-child.org, an international research networking project Steven undertook for the Pasteur Institute.
He's also going to go visit the Linux user group at the Universidad de La Habana. They have an Ubuntu-based Linux distro, which apparently comes bundled with pre-configured Jabber client and RSS aggregator. I have a feeling he'll be dropping some of his ace WiFi-fu on them, having established his own community WiFi network in his hometown.
And then he's off to cycle all over the island, staying with families in their homes along the way. Apparently Cuba is extremely well suited to such cycling trips, with excellent roads and government subsidized rooming houses all over.
I made him promise to blog and photolog as much as he possibly can.
Bonne route mon ami. Be safe.
Comments
At least if doesn't write a bad diary which would be put on screen 35 years later, I think that's all right. Che plus ce que je dis.
Posted by: karl at August 27, 2005 11:51 PM
Well, the photoblogging is going to be easier said then done - I timed out on uploading a 50k image :(.
Posted by: Steven Mansour at August 30, 2005 12:19 PM