Excellent work to you and your team, Leo! ¡Sigue presentando la bandera!
I'm particularly happy to hear you have 12 year olds involved and presenting. It puts a big grin on my face. Awesome work! Simón A. Ruiz On 9/18/07, Leo Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Ubuntu-ni LoCo Team together with the Nicaraguan GNU/Linux Users Group > organized our first Software Freedom Day on September 13th in Managua, > Nicaragua. > > Conferences > > * The opening conference; "Free educational software" by the youngest > members of the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team (Sharon Gómez [1] and Elkrin > Mayorga [2], both 12 years old) was one of the highlights of the whole > event. They presented Gcompris and TuxPaint. > > * Gerald Lanzas from Ubuntu Nicaragua presented "Linux in the education". > This conference had the participation (via VoIP) of Luis Sepúlveda from the > Edulinux project in Chile. > > * Edgar Guzman [3] (16 years old), from Ubuntu Guatemala talked about the > "Linux Terminal Server Project" and presented some thin clients with Ubuntu. > > * In the afternoon there were several conferences on programming languages; > Aldo Villagra from Ubuntu Nicaragua with "Ruby on Rails", Celvin Rivas from > Ubuntu El Salvador with "Java" and Edgar Martinez, also from Ubuntu El > Salvador, with "Python". The last conference was presented by Alejandro > Rodriguez, "LDAP + Postfix" from NUI Nicaragua. > > * The closing event was an open discussion about technology, particulary the > implementation of free and open source software in Central America. > > Other activities > > * We had an installfest area, distribution and burning stations, testing > area with some Ubuntu computers, a multimedia area and an infoscreen. > > * The first meeting of the Central American Ubuntu LoCo Teams (mini-Ubucon) > was held on the same day with the participation of team members and leaders > from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. We talked about the situation of > the Ubuntu teams and the FOSS community in our countries and agreed to > continue to work together in order to grow our communities. > > Some numbers: > > * +500 people attended the SFD Nicaragua 2007 > * +500 Ubuntu flyers were handed out > * 150 Ubuntu CDs > * 20 installs of Ubuntu > > We had some media exposure as well [4] > > * 4 TV interviews > * 5 articles in local newspapers > * 2 radio interviews > * links and banners in 32 Nicaraguan web sites > > Photo gallery (work in progress): > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD_Nicaragua_2007 > > [1] > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=HPIM0064&action=show > [2] > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=HPIM0072&action=show > [3] > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=DSC_0521&action=show > [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NicaraguanTeam/Prensa > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > -- -Simón A. Ruiz -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
