FLISOL2007 Caracas - Venezuela Event Report
by "Guillermo Gómez S."
Flisol Venezuela/Caracas celebrated at april 28th in Ince Caracas/Venezuela was visited by 1500 approx. during the day it last.
Fedora Venezuela was present with three speeches/presentations made by its representatives in the provided auditorium which holded around 200 people plus some outside people (maybe 100 more) viewing with the help of large tv monitors.
The whole program of speakers was recorded by some local TV organizations (Colombeia).
The first conference was made by Guillermo Gomez who talked about Fedora and Fedora Venezuela and focused his speech towards the free software and its principles and ethics.
Guillermo defended Fedora from a 100% free sw point of view with no acceptance of deviations and demonstrated how Fedora is leading the way on this regard.
This speech was changed at last time since previous speakers were missleading the people. Guillermo decided to switch its regular presentation to a reflexive speech explaining and asking the people to understand what free sw means and why we do not include support for propierarty codecs for example, and to ask people to be responsible ethically with sw selection and why this matters.
This speech was very well accepted and greatly rewarded by the people. Some people went to Fedora boot afterwards to talk to us about it.
Walter Cervini made a second presentation in the afternoon, a technical one, regarding security, iptables, tcp-wrappers and selinux and how they are integrated in Fedora.
The last speech was conducted by Wilmer Jaramillo who also made a technical presentation about Fedora Directory Server and its relevance on the migration plans in the government dependencies.
By Fedora Venezuela we had a Maria Leandro and Richzendy Contreras helping in our stand giving away DVDs and helping people to install Fedora on theris machines.
They also provided people with flyers (about 500) and small lectures about Fedora.
We gave away 80 DVDs and we were really short, DVDs from Freemedia program didnt make it so we built a list with interested people in order to deliver them a copy.
Rodrigo de Padula provided the mentioned 80 DVDs. We believe this is the true starting point for our freemedia program (stalled previously).
In general we believe the event was a major success for the whole FOSS community in our country and the region and of course, for Fedora.
Press notes (spanish):
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http://www.fedora-ve.org/content/view/187/77/
http://www.ince.gov.ve/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=232&Item...
Event pictures:
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http://www.fedora-ve.org/component/option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,71/catid,10/
Fedora Venezuel:
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http://www.fedora-ve.org
This report was made in collaboration between Wilmer Jaramillo and myself.
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17 years
10 days Fedora awareness program in 11 schools
by gopal das
Dear Ambassadors
I want to organize a Fedora and open source awareness program for 10 days at
11 schools in my locality(if posseble . At the same time I want to organize
a quiz contest on Fedora and Red hat at every schools in my locality. So I
need some Fedora flags and banners for the stage setup and Fedora T shirts
for the students. Before this there was no Linux or open source related
event has take place at Serampore (District - Hooghly, State - West Bengal
in India). So I am trying hard to success of this event. I am trying to
attract the attention of the schools' authority and the students of various
levels and as well as the parents.
For this event I need 5 to 10 Fedora flags/banners and about 60 Fedora T
shirts and as well as the cooperation and suggestions from the Ambassadors
and other Fedora project members for the success of the event.
"Serampore" is about 30 KM from Central Kolkata.
I will announce the date within 7 days after getting the banners and T
shirts..
Sincerely
Gopal Das
17 years
Fedora and open source awareness program and quiz contest
by gopal das
Dear Ambassadors
I want to organize a Fedora and open source awareness program for 10 days
at schools in my locality. At the same time I want to organize a quiz
contest on Fedora and Red hat at every schools in my locality. So I need
some Fedora flags and banners for the stage setup and Fedora T shirts for
the students. Before this there was no Linux or open source related event
has take place in this locality. So I am trying hard to success of this
event. I am trying to attract the attention of the schools' authority and
the students of various levels.
For this event I need 5 to 10 Fedora flags/banners and about 60 Fedora T
shirts and as well as the cooperation and suggestions from the Ambassadors
and other Fedora project members for the success of the event.
Sincerely
Gopal Das
17 years
Backlogs: FreeMedia India Program
by Santosh Kumar
Hi,
I'm almost done with my Undergraduate Program. I had requested out here
to be dormant till i complete my program & stepped down from the FreeMedia
Program and i thank you all for the support. I'm now free till august after
which i will be heading to the US for my Masters. In the meanwhile, i
noticed that we have a huge backlog (around 300 - 400) of Fedora FreeMedia
Requests pending in India. Most of them with a few exceptional cases have
received the DVD even after being accepted. I remember Thomas Chung
mentioning about having an old stock of DVD (FC5) lying with him. Just in
case if thats still available, i would love to take up the responsibility of
clearly a partial backlog and i will be shipping out the FC 6 DVDs Starting
this Month.
Please do suggest me about the various options available to clear these
many requests. Any help is appreciated. And if any one can spare a few DVD's
please send them over to me, i can ship them locally in India.
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Santosh Kumar
17 years
