From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Subject: Unix for Romanian: WE NEED DISKETTES
Summary: Diskettes/money/books needed for Unix in Romania
Keywords: unix,linux
Organization: CRIM
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:51:40 GMT


Hi:

I would like to report the effort put by a team of dedicated
volunteers who contribute to the distribution of free Unix and VLSI
tools in Romania. Listed in no specific order, they are:


Ivonne Nicolescu, from the Freie Universitaet Berlin 	- 386bsd
Edward Nicolescu, from Cornell U. 			- VLSI tools
Radu Iorgulescu, from Waterloo U.			- mailing
Radu Cotet, from Namur U., Belgium			- mailing
Viorica Simion, from Delft U., Holland 			- VLSI tools
Traian Mitrache, from USC				- VLSI tools

In terms of other contributions, I would like to mention:

Judith Bodo, Geoge Nemet, from Stanford U. - help in shipping and diskettes
George Costache - from Ottawa U. - 20$


All these persons responded to my recent appeals in a very prompt way.
(The only surprise I have is the  lack of help from the people
in the industry.)

The volunteers have already shipped or are in the process of shipping their
share of the contribution. Myself, I have shipped yesterday a parcel
containing 50 diskettes with linux and some VLSI tools and 12kg of
up-to-date documentation. It cost me 100$, so your money is well spent
and makes possible the continuation.

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While the distribution to the first two bases (the Polytechnical
Institutes of Bucharest and Timisoara) has proceeded relatively
smoothly, we face difficulty caused by the fact that the cost of
diskettes in Romania is prohibitive for current salaries. 

Thus there is a considerable delay in the spreading of the
distribution caused by the fact that the distribution centers and
their prospective targets don't have diskettes.

How you can help alleviate the problem:

- send by mail or friends (cheaper) diskettes (1.44, HD, 3.5
preferable, but we take everything) to:

Prof. Mircea Bodea
Str. Bitolia Nr. 54, Sectorul 1, Cod 71239,
Bucharest, Romania
tel. 3-12-24-52
(in charge of the Bucharest distribution centre)

Ing. Mircea Hancu (my cousin)
Str. 1 Decembrie Nr. 23, Apt. 3
Timisoara III, Cod 1900
Romania
tel. 15164
(in charge of the Timisoara distribution centre)

(myself)
Marius Hancu
3355 Queen Mary Road, Apt. 610
Montreal, Quebec H3V 1A5
Canada

or to any of your friends in Romania which in your opinion  might be
interested in getting the distribution.
They will need something like 30 diskettes of 1.44M for a relatively complete
distribution, at least. Plus a Xerox machine (several thousands pages of
documents!!).


We would appreciate if you could send to us or your friends both old
and new diskettes. Please specify GIFT on the parcel, or we/they'll
have to pay (higher) customs.

If you want to use the more expedient version of sending me money, it
will be well used.  

Whenever you send anything to the centres in Romania, please inform
me, in order to be able to get a clear picture and keep things under
control
.

Please use home addresses if you mail to Prof. Bodea and Mircea Hancu.
It is safer.


As I want to send several good books on X windows to Romania, to the
two present distribution centers, I would again appreciate your
financial help. If you prefer to send Unix/X books to your friends,
that is also a contribution. I  am going to post soon a good listing
of such books.

Thank you for your help. Multumesc.



-- 
Marius Hancu, Parallel Architectures Group 
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
3744, Jean-Brillant, Bureau 500, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1P1, Canada 
phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca