Move your Tux Move your Gnu around the world

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Hello world
I'm starting a crazy challenge and need your help !

Here is the very simple idea:

I bought a small Tux (about 12 or 15cm height) that everybody can easily carry with him The goal is to make this Tux travelling around the world from hand to hand and make it end on Linus Torvalds' desk.
Why should we do that ? As a thanks, and to show the world that Linux is not only a chain of codes but also a human community.

How Tux travels:

1- Through the dedicated website, you make contact with an other voluntary
2- It doesn't matter if Tux is going 1km or 100, it just have to move, and if it is blocked somewhere, it can just go back and take an other way in others hands.
3- To ensure we are moving Tux, we will have a password system:
The first one choose a «password», this password must change every third person who have Tux. The one who must change the password have to contact one of the webmaster to define a new password and will have to give the old one, which he will have received with Tux.
The passwords will be only free software names.
4- Each one who had Tux takes a picture of him with it. And indicate to the webmasters where, and when he gave Tux to someone else. And of course gives the picture so we can all see Tux, as we will all miss it...

We need for that project :
1- (OK) - The Tux (we got it) and a gnu.
2- (OK) - Somewhere to host the website, the website, and some webmasters to do it.
3- (OK) - Some translators to show every one in his language, the informations about when is Tux.
4- (OK)A map updated with the Tux travel (OK, it's in process now)
5- (OK) - Define the end point for Tux and Gnu (the desk of the boss : LT & RMS)

Torvalds :
He is living in Beaverton, Oregon, US with his wife and his three daughters. He is working fr the Open Source Development Lab, which is financed by some company sailing Linux.

Thanks by advance to all who will be part of the Tux's trip.



The Tux's Trip website will be here :
http://move-your-tux.fr.nf
and the Gnu website here :
move-your-gnu.fr.nf powered by Domain Technologie Control (DTC)
(in construction for now)

[fibi]

Hello,

I'm taking part in the project "Move Your Tux & Gnu". Is there someone in the world who speaks French and who is interested in the project? We will need someone to take care of the project in the world and it would be great to make a relay website to make sure Tux will have a safe trip out there.

If you are from an other country, and you would like to participate don't hesitate to contact us. Having local relays in different countries over the world will make easier to make Tux moving locally. And we need help to bring informations in and from your area.

Let's bring* the free software to the world, together we can do it.

Regards,
The Move Your Tux & Gnu Team

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START OF "Move your Tux, Move your Gnu": SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER 2008

ORIGIN
A member of the Ubuntu-fr community, Karadine, had the idea to make a Tux travel around the world and to make it end up on Linus Torvalds' desk.

GOAL
By doing this we want to show that GNU/Linux is not only code and data but also a human community.
So we want all together to thank Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, and to make a Tux and a Gnu travel around the world.

HOW IT WORKS
We bought two fluffies (a Tux and a Gnu: you can see the Tux in the gallery). To have them travel, they will go from one hand to another, and travelling with the one who has them, they will go from one town to another, one country to another and one continent to another, ending with Richard stallman and Linus Torvalds. The Tux and Gnu trips will be shown on the website (see the map "where is Tux/Gnu")

The start time will be the 11 october 2008 in France and Belgium. The Tux will start from CHANTERAC (France) and the Gnu from Mons (Belgium) to go respectively to Linus Torvalds's home (Beaverton, Oregon -USA-) and Richard Stallman's home (USA)..

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
To contribute to Tux's and/or Gnu's trip, come and register on the website: http://move-your-tux.fr.nf/ http://move-your-gnu.fr.nf/
Then put your location on the world map, so you can see the others near you and the others can see that you are near them. So you can make contact to arrange the exchange.
You can also make some noise about the project (the more contributors there are, the more fun and good it is).
If you can, you are welcome to help us with translations, website maintenance,...
The rules are available for more details and you can always contact
CONTACT
An IRC chanel is open on the Freenode network, its name is #MYTG