[Bradford] Article for Spanish speakers

[Alan D Barnard]

Recycling Computer Group of the University of Vigo (Gruvi) is one of the 
flagship programs of volunteering in the academic institution. This year 
they delivered to various non-profit organizations of Vigo, Ourense and 
Pontevedra few hundred repaired and ready to use equipment.

The idea came during 2005-2006 when they found that the University of 
Vigo was accumulating many computers that had become obsolete for 
teaching and research but could be perfectly recoverable for the 
purposes of many social institutions, with few resources to purchase 
computers. So Gruvi born with a concern for the recycling and reuse of 
what would end up being computer waste. His main ally was from the 
beginning the Friends of Linux Pontevedra (GALPon), an organization that 
promotes the use of free software, which is using the equipment, and 
also trains student volunteers. Six volunteers currently enrolled 
students, three in the world of engineering, but also one of Fine Arts 
and areas that have nothing to do with the computer because it is not 
necessary, as Miguel Anxo Bouzada, GALPon president and project 
coordinator explains Gruvi.

The group repairs old computers (most have ten years of use and 
sometimes three computers do only one) and will introduce the software. 
The advantage of free software is that 'we can make it work as we want, 
we make a few adjustments and a very careful selection of the programs 
will be installed to meet some functions dterminadas without effects or 
rare things, to be operational and functional' . This was not possible 
with traditional operating systems like Windows or Mac Anxo Bouzada 
Miguel explains that at first worked with an operating system sponsored 
by the regional government named Guadalinex thought for underperforming 
teams. Over time changes that do not convince them were made in 2008 and 
set out to create a new distribution called Puss and used as a base 
Debian, which were born other well known as Ubuntu. Years later created 
a special operating system for children, rogues Diego ('and now I'm a 
grandfather I entered this concern'), already installed last year on 
computers donated to Berce association, since you applied to work with 
children. Meanwhile, on another occasion made a setup Ubuntu Christian 
at the request of an evangelical church, 'as if it is a Jewish or Muslim 
association, we could make a filtering system for them, "he explains.


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