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FLISOL2007 Caracas - Venezuela Event Report
by "Guillermo Gómez S." 02 May '07

02 May '07

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): ============= http://www.fedora-ve.org/content/view/187/77/ http://www.ince.gov.ve/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=232&Itemid… Event pictures: =============== http://www.fedora-ve.org/component/option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,71/catid,10/ Fedora Venezuel: =============== http://www.fedora-ve.org This report was made in collaboration between Wilmer Jaramillo and myself. -- Gomix Guillermo Gómez S. cms fedora-ve http://www.fedora-ve.org blog http://blog.gomix.org soporte fedora-ve en irc.freenode.net, canal fedora-ve lista email fedora-ve(a)googlegroups.com Key fingerprint = 3143 8BDB 48A2 3241 E62A B743 D177 CAD7 3205 A464

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10 days Fedora awareness program in 11 schools
by gopal das 02 May '07

02 May '07

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

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Fedora and open source awareness program and quiz contest
by gopal das 02 May '07

02 May '07

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

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Backlogs: FreeMedia India Program
by Santosh Kumar 01 May '07

01 May '07

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. -- Santosh Kumar

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Flisol 2007 Santiago de Chile Pictures
by Eduardo Villagrán Morales 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi Ambassadors, on this link you can see some pictures of Flisol 2007 Santiago de Chile. http://flickr.com/photos/gotencool/sets/72157600162797094/ Hola Embajadores, en este enlace pueden ver algunas fotos de Flisol 2007 Santiago de Chile. http://flickr.com/photos/gotencool/sets/72157600162797094/ -- Eduardo Villagrán Morales [linuxuser:#384391] Embajador Fedora - Chile sip:gotencool@ekiga.net

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