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We heard the call for Gutsy Parties…

As we get closer to the Gutsy Release date, the ubuntu-ve team is happy to confirm it’s Nation-wide Gutsy Party . The ubuntu-ve members from al over Venezuela will be gathering in the beautiful city of Maracaibo for a series of talks on Ubuntu, Install-Fest, and Work Tables (mesas de trabajo) to help fuel the team’s projects. This event also celebrates the 1st Aniversary of ubuntu-ve.

The Event will be held on Saturday, October 20th at the Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín (URBE) and it will gather ubuntuteros-ve from all over the country. For the people who cannot attend, we decided to set up wiki pages with information on how to start their own Local Activities. so we can all share Ubuntu Love on this day .

I just read in www.con-cafe.com that UBUNTU is going to school in Venezuela .

The CBIT (Centro Bolivariano de Informática  y Telemática) invited the concafe.com staff to take a close  look at a new “Escuela Bolivariana Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho” in Miranda, Guarico State.

The man in charge of this is TSU Roman Hernández, promoter of Educational Informatics. for two days he and his team helped get the lab ready at the school and some people even brought their PC’s and took home Ubuntu.

All machines are produced by the VIT  (Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica), which is a computer-assembly plant that was founded with the savings earned from ditching propietary software.

For more pictures check here

P.S. Special thanks to Antonio Da Silva Campos and  Roman Hernández

Software Freedom Day 2007 – Maracaibo, Venezuela

let the pictures do the talking!

To Join the voices of Sridhar , Mako and Fabián as we are 3 days away:

Software Freedom Day Coming to my town (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

An probably to one near you

Here is a little HOWTO:

HOW TO MAKE AN OLD FASHIONED BANNER (The GEEK WAY).

Materials:

• a PC and printer
• Craft Paper (or any kind of paper)
• Crayons (or Water paint or even chalk)
• Glue sticks
• Scissors

Procedure

1. Download the font
2. Open your preferred Word Processor and type the letters you need for the banner, use font size 800 (one letter per page).
3. Print the letters
4. Optional, Should you need bigger size letters you can try to fit the letters into a legal size paper using a Photocopier (Xerox machine)
5. Color the paper you will be using for background
6. Cut the letters

Your banner should look like this

1. Glue the letters to the background

And take it to your Software Freedom Day event

To all SFD teams… Let kick it !!!

PS: if there is nothing happening for software freedom day in your city. please consider starting a team next year .