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Like Leandro in Nicaragua, the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, FLISOL was MASSIVE in my city (Maracaibo). I also I also spoke with people in other cities, like Merida and Caracas, Barquisimeto and we did have quite a turn up for the event. I was involved in the organization in my city and we had very kind sponsors and volunteers for the event.

FLISOL is a yearly event where people bring their machines and they get in touch with the community. Not only do they install a Free OS or free aplications on their computers, but volunteers also share tips and tricks and people get to see the community in action. Demostrations really blow people away. Presentations on really useful stuff. Lots of people just come to wonder what this Free Software is all about and they take more than they bargained for, if you know what I mean.

Ubuntu-ve in FLISOL, well the team decided to massively support the organizers of FLISOL in Venezuela and we organized ourselves in little sub teams to volunteer in the cities where the event was happening, we had members in Merida, Barquisimeto, Valencia, Caracas, Maracaibo. and that was very cool to see ubunteros-ve heeding the call for active involvement in promoting K/ED/X/UBUNTU large and wide. The team took local mirrors of hardy (assuggested by the Colombian and the Ecuador Teams) and that made our install que very short. we had a group of volunteers helping install and people were delighted to have the oportunity to learn something new. I also gave a talk on  the TOP 5 apps for the linux desktop. I considered this a basic talk on 5 apps you can’t really live without and it was oriented to desktop users. People in the crowd felt really involved. I should have pictures from all the cities soon.

Thanks to the Organizers of FLISOL in Venezuela and in Latinamerica  for providing Unity towards our shared goal. and from Venezuela, I salute all other Latinamerican LoCo teams helping out in FLISOL.

More Pics … here

Well, It’s been a while since my last post. I have been working hard with the ubuntu-ve team to get the polo shirts ready for upcoming events and try to organize the team in order to participate in the next couple of weeks. Yesterday In Maracaibo, we had CNSL, Congreso Nacional de Software Libre. Next week in all Latin American countries (and now spain too), we have FLISOL, which is a Latin American Install fest. and Both events being just a week apart in my city. So in different cities the Ubuntu-ve team is organizing a little activity to help out those that are just starting out with ubuntu.

CNSL

In Maracaibo CNSL wrapped up yesterday. UBUNTU-VE just ROCKED. We copied Xubuntu / Kubuntu / Ubuntu / Edubuntu cd’s in both live and alternate, we handed out flyers with the team info for further contact and we handed out install instructions to attendees(spanish) and the flavors of ubuntu flyers, which explains the different versions of ubuntu. We also had a small install table, where people brought their desktops and laptops and  installed Ubuntu.  Basically the Ubuntu-ve team took the.

Unfortunatelly I do not carry good pictures with me, my camera batt was low, as things got busier I just coundt take any pictures anymore. all I have is my cellphone pics but as soon as I get more I will post them .

FLISOL

El Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre is next week, and Hispanic LoCo teams in Latin America are heeding the call and we have shared ideas and we are looking forward to helping as many people as we can next Saturday (April 26th).  We will have a local mirror of hardy fully set up for people to install. We salute all LoCo teams promoting in FLISOL and the organizers of the events for bringing together efforts to promote FOSS. Here is the plan of what will go on in FLISOL MARACAIBO 2008

Other talks I attended this week.

I had the chance to see a student debate between free and open source software  and propietary software but this time it was young college students the ones who took on the roles and I think the outcome was fantastic. at the end I was invited on stage to share with Octavio Rossel, GLoVE (GNU/LINUX Organizado en Venezuela) and FSF-LA Council Member to close the event. It was a great experience, and I leave you with pictures from that event.

Advocacy is the name of the game this week…

P.S. More MOTU work well on it’s way…