Changing Focus
maddog's Doghouse
"maddog" provides an update on Project Cauã, with new focus on helping university students and small businesses.
Over the years ,I have written about Project Cauã [1], a project that I started more than 10 years ago. Project Cauã was first designed for Brazil, with its high-density cities but was always intended for spreading out to various parts of Latin America.
Project Cauã had many different business plans, all of which had various degrees of difficulty in getting started due to the use of hardware to leverage the plans. But, Project Cauã always had two main foci of generating jobs for people and making computers easier to use (not easy, just easier). While I am a staunch believer in Free and Open Source Software, I am also a pragmatist, and I realized that most business people use Microsoft or Apple products and that Project Cauã would have to address that issue.
In the past year, several people have been helping me change the focus of Project Cauã to one of helping university students afford university while gaining experience at running their own company and helping small and medium businesses utilize their computers better.
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