I would suggest mentioning this in the upcoming UWN: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue39.
nick On 5/1/07, Leo Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people! > > The Nicaraguan LoCo Team participated in the biggest free software/open > source event in Latin America, FLISOL, the Latin American Free Software > Installfest 2007 that was held on April 28 simultaneously in 17 countries > and 160 cities in Latin America. > > Ubuntu-ni was one of the organizers of the event in Nicaragua together with > the Nicaraguan Free Software and Open Source Network. We had two huge events > on this day in the capital city Managua and in the city of León (90 kms. > from Managua). Some highlights of FLISOL Nicaragua 2007: > > - Aprox. 4,000 people assisted to both events > - 17 conferences, 6 of them 100% Ubuntu related > - 46 desktops and laptops got Ubuntu/Kubuntu installed > - 500 CDs of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu were handed out, 90% of them locally > produced > - An unknown number of laptops got upgraded from Edgy to Feisty > > The University of Managua in León (UdeM) announced on the event that they > are going to migrate all their Windows systems to Ubuntu (+400 computers), > including servers and workstation. This project is going to be coordinated > with the Ubuntu-ni local group in the university. Four other universities > are also interested in Ubuntu. One of them have already migrated a whole > department (public relations) to Ubuntu on the workstations and their > servers to Debian. > > Datatex, one of the three biggest PC vendors in Nicaragua is exploring the > possibility to sell computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. The Ubuntu-ni Team > will provide training and local support. A few government agencies also > contacted the Team and we will be meeting with the representatives of the > Ministry of Governance, the Ministry of Defense and the Social Security > Institute next week in order to advice them on the migration of their > systems to Ubuntu. > > All in all, it has been a great day for the free software community in > Nicaragua and specially for the Ubuntu-ni LoCo Team. We got a huge media > attention with interviews in local TV and radio stations and several > articles on the local newspapers. > > We are really happy and proud of all this, it has been our first big event > and we showed that the Nicaraguan Ubuntu Community really rocks! Upcoming > events for the team are the three month long Linux Tour Nicaragua 2007 and > the Software Freedom Day in September. > > You can see some photos and videos of the event in: > > http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tags/flisol/ > http://flickr.com/photos/marconipoveda/tags/flisol/ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pgJWqkSOY > > Regards, > > Leo > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
