Hi Everyone,
Lucas, as you requested:

GNOME Chile 2007 Summary
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What we did at 2007
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participation in local events

* April
        28: Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, Santiago 
- Chile
        URL: http://www.installfest.info/FLISOL2007/Chile/Santiago
        talks:  The GNOME Project, past, present and future.
                HowTo contribute to the GNOME Project.
        we have a stand to show the GNOME desktop and let people get closer to 
it.
        pictures of the event: http://www.flickr.com/groups/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/

* June
        30: Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima - Peru
        URL: http://www.usmp.edu.pe/
        talks: Learning Python + GTK.

* August
        Universidad Santo Tomás, Talca - Chile
        workshop: Developing graphic applications with PyGTK.

* September
        6/7/8: Tercer Encuentro de Software Libre. Universidad Autónoma de 
Chile, Temuco - Chile
        talks:  HowTo contribute to the GNOME project.
                HowTo develop GNOME applications with Mono.
        workshop: Development with PyGtk.

        29: Día del Software Libre, Curicó '07. Universidad de Talca, Curicó - 
Chile
        URL: http://curico.diadelsoftwarelibre.cl
        talks: 10 years of the GNOME project.
        workshop: Development with PyGTK.
        we have a stand to show GNOME running and also gave stickers.
        pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sfdcurico07/

* October
        12/13/14: 8vo Encuentro Linux 2007, Universidad de Tarapaca de Arica, 
Chile
        URL: http://2007.encuentrolinux.cl/
        talks:  HowTo contribute to the GNOME project.
                10 years of the GNOME project.
                HowTo develop GNOME applications with Mono.

        pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/encuentrolinux2007/

        Arequipa, Peru
        talks:  Software Engineer good practices and the GNOME project.

        Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepcion - Chile
        workshop: Python and PyGTK.

* November
        10: 3er Congreso Austral de Ciencia de la Computación. Universidad 
Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt - Chile
        URL: http://congresoaustral.uach.cl/2007
        talks:  10 years of the GNOME project.
        pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/congresogulipm2007/

        16/17: Segundo Encuentro de Linux Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca 
- Chile
        URL: http://talca.uautonoma.cl/encuentro/
        talks:  10 years of the GNOME project.
                HowTo become part of the GNOME BugSquad.
        workshop: Live Hacking in the GNOME project. (choose a random bug and 
work on it)
                  GIMP workshop.
        pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/elinuxua2007

        20/21/22: Encuentro Open Source INACAP, Valparaiso - Chile
        talsk: GNOME 10 years of freedom.
        workshop: Developing with PyGTK.

* December
        30 nov/01 dic: Segundo encuentro de Software y Tecnologías Libres. 
UCSC, Concepción - Chile
        URL: http://encuentro.opensur.org/
        talks:  Introduction to the GNOME project.
                HowTo contribute to the GNOME project.
        workshop: The GNOME Desktop Environment.
                  Developing with PyGTK.

        14: Encuentro de Linux, Instituto Profesional La Araucana, Curicó - 
Chile

        15: 1º Encuentro SW Libre "Pingüinos en la costa", Lota - Chile


Positive Outcomes
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* We grow a lot as a community and this year the GNOME Foundation sponsored 5 
members of the group to assist to GUADEC and GUADEC-ES as listeners and 
speakers.
* We covered more territory doing talks, had the possibility to go to Arica the 
first north city of the country and to one located at the very south like 
Puerto Montt this was a great achievement for us taking in consideration the 
huge distance we have to cover for making it
* Most of, if not all, Open Source event in the country have the GNOME Chile 
representation


Plans for the Future
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* We have to plan our strategies to world domination starting at "9° Encuentro 
de Linux, 2008", which is the biggest Open Source event in Chile
* We are developing a program to create new hackers, there's a draft in Spanish 
at ftp://colbun.utalca.cl/asignaturas/estrategia/Haz_un_Hackerv002.pdf
* We are joining forces with GNOME Hispano to bring back to live the "Libro de 
GNOME",
  creating channels of cooperation to generate one big source of information to 
Spanish speakers.

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