Hi Parabolers, Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (FISL) (International Free Software Forum) is considered one of the world´s largest free software events sponsored by Associação Software Livre.Org (Free Software Association) in my native country Brazil. It takes place every year in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande Do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. Associação Software Livre.Org is a Brazilian NGO that, among other goals, seeks the promotion and adoption of free software.
I propose Parabola applies for a joint Parabola+Ceata+GNU Linux-libre+GNU Solidario stand to sponsoring this event, also make a conference between us. We can then try to get help and raise funds for needed things that could be the following points: * A old laptop: since i use just desktop computers, i need a one to make a conference in Portuguese, show to the public our Parabola's slide presentation based on community contribution from our wiki [0] There's a beta slide presentation created by coadde from LibreOffice Impress [1] based on contribution made from the wiki, it's incomplete and need more work, also i've plans to translate it to Portuguese in the next week. crazytoon said me that could create more cartoons to improve it. In addition, i would make a demonstration to the public how to maintain packages in Parabola to motives new hackers participate on our distro and demonstrate to the public how to Parabola works. Therefore, if somebody have a old laptop that isn't not using and works well (it can be without HDD and/or optical disc drive) or donate money around 70~120 dollars to buy a used one in Argentina, i would be very grateful. Otherwise, i have a friend that has plans to travel from Europa to Uruguay in January, then we could buy a used old laptop on that continent for better price than Argentina (eg. under 50 dollars) and he could wear it when he goes travel. If somebody could looking for a cheap used old laptop in that continent or have a new better idea or way to get a used old laptop in another place, please let us know. * Tickets: I'm brazilian, however i'm living outside of my country (now i'm in Uruguay and sometimes in Argentina), then i need tickets to travel to Porto Alegre. Since Montevideo is neared than Buenos Aires to travel to Porto Alegre, i prefer travel from Montevideo, and the round trip ticket costs 167 dollars [2]. * Payments concerning the travel (eg. food, hotel, etc). I don't know if hotel is needed for this case since FISL give a gratis place to stay there thought, i need get info about it, maybe we could ask to Alexandre Oliva who participated on previous FISL events. I suggest get funds around 150 dollars for theses costs and the extra money after the event should come back to our fund again. New ideas are welcome here too. * Parabola+Ceata+GNU Linux-libre+GNU Solidario stand to sponsoring FISL: We need get info about it when Associação Software Livre.Org will open the stand vacancy for the FISL17 event. * Conference: Alexandre Oliva made some conferences at FISL16 [3][4][5][6], then i would propose make a conference together him, Luis Falcón and Tiberiu to talk about our distro based on community contribution material made from our wiki [0], our official fiscal sponsorship Ceata and its fundation [7], our new support for ARMv7 architectures [8], GNU Solidario and GNU Health and GNU Linux-libre. New ideas? What do you think about it? * Our official mascots: Parabola is not just free software advocate because defend the freedom speech in the culture too. We have our official mascots GNU [9] and Bola [10] created by our hackers coadde [11] and crazytoon [12] and it could be presented in this event too. They have plans to make a animatic/animation (inspired on Star Trek) about ARM and that GNU and Bola are arriving to ARM Planet from their spaceship. Their mission is put the freedom flag there. They need musicians hackers for it, also enthusiasts for the english-speakers voices. They have plans to begin it around January, if somebody would join on it, please let us know. * Material about health and support for blind and visually impaired users: GNU Solidario works globally, delivering health and education to the underprivileged by means of Free Software. GNU Health is a Free/Libre project for health practitioners, health institutions, etc. Parabola supports this great project from PCR repo [13], also we have TalkingParabola that is a respin of the Parabola ISO modified to include speech and braille output for blind and visually impaired users [14] We could create some videos/tutorials about how gnuhealth and TalkingParabola works in Parabola and help people around the world. If somebody can help us on it, please let us know. * Promotion materials: stickers, buttons, <add you idea here>, etc are all welcome and needed to disseminate it around the event. Note: We should print all purchase invoices concerning the event about Parabola and send to our distro to keep transparency. Parabola is adhocratic in its essence and each decision/suggestion is made under consensus by the community. New ideas, suggestions are welcome! Happy hacking!! [0]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Presentation [1]:https://repo.parabola.nu/sources/parabola_presentation-beta.odp [2]:http://www.ega.com.uy/horarios_tarifas.php?origen=Montevideo&destinoBuscado=&destino=Porto+Alegre [3]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdeM6CyTx3s [4]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzBjUwuR-s [5]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGw36V7mCeQ [6]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4XgHS0Oh0 [7]:https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-receives-fiscal-sponsorship-from-fundatia-ceata/ [8]:https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-supports-armv7/ [9]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/images/f/f2/Gnu01-mascot-logo%2Bparabola-logo_100ppi.png [10]:https://projects.parabola.nu/pac.git/plain/src/img/parabola_officialCharacter-bola-bipedWalking_r223d74405x313d9552px_noa_nof_nos_svg1d1.svg [11]:https://www.parabola.nu/people/hackers/#coadde [12]:https://www.parabola.nu/people/hackers/#Crazytoon [13]:https://www.parabola.nu/packages/pcr/any/gnuhealth/ [14]:https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Presentation#TalkingParabola_GNU.2FLinux-libre
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