Hosting Experiences

Hosting Experiences

Did you ever wonder what the impact of the Freedom Toaster would be on your community? Have you thought of what benefits you would receive if you hosted a Freedom Toaster? Whenever a new concept or innovation becomes available there is generally a lag between the time that becomes available and general knowledge of it's availability. The Freedom Toaster has been available in concept form for well over a year, and as a physical machine in certain locations for almost as long. The time lag between availability and community knowledge of that availability is now closing, and it is time that more and more communities got involved.

The Freedom Toaster Project has the potential to change the way electronic information is distributed. If you have used one then you already know the great benefit of being able to go to a Freedom Toaster and toast a Linux Distribution or the OpenOffice.org setup disk. If you are already hosting a Freedom Toaster at your community centre, library, computer shop, internet café, coffee bar, supermarket chain, etc. then you know the benefits to your own business and the benefits to your community.

The following articles and stories are presentations of the Freedom Toaster being hosted by various characters in different situations around the world. Some of the articles are mental projections of what would happen if 'this type of person in a particular type of business in particular country were to host a Freedom Toaster'. Others are based on real situations and real businesses.

If you have ever wondered where to put a Freedom Toaster, read these articles and find some possibilities for you to think about...

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