[Ambassadors] Pre Flisol Events Panama and Mini Deb Conf Panama

[María Leandro]

Wow.. this is an excelent report. (and you make me :$ )

All that "we, the Fedora Family do" is because there is people like you.

+1 to everything you are doing to encourage people to make that change.

Arriba Muchachos! :D

2010/3/28 Alejandro Perez <aeperezt at hotmail.com>

>  As you know all latam is getting ready for the FLISOL, in Panama, we
> started with series of talk on Free software and local communities, on Mar
> 19 at ULACIT and Mar 25 at UIP,  first event was not that many people as we
> have some issues with timing but we make the most of it, the main speaker
> was from Costa Rica Carolina Flores  and was here for the Mini Deb Conf and
> give us her time to do this talk. It was one of the best talks on Free
> Software. The evento on Mar 25 has over 50 people and we have talks from
> local communities like Ubunto Loco Team Panama, Open Suse, caelinux, and of
> cource Fedora. We also have a panamenian company working on open source
> tools, talking on the importance for the students to know this technologies
> and that we have some jobs spaces for people trained and with skills on Open
> Source Technologies.
>
> It was a opportunity to introduce CIDETYS to this University, CIDETYS is a
> foundation develop to introduce free software and open source to the
> government, they still have to much to do.
>
> Mini Deb Conf Panama, Central America software libre community got the idea
> of celebrating on Panama a Debian conference last year, after great effort
> and work they meet at City of Knowledge Panama, as this was one of the few
> opportunities to learn and share with the central American FLOSS community I
> was part of it, we learn some stuff about Debian community and tech stuff
> about Debian packing, translation, GNUPG, Debian License, Compiling the
> kernel and some more stuff.
>
> But the main thing I have learn give me back to why I'm part of Fedora, on
> the talk to introduce our selft to Debian Community the speaker Hector
> Colima, mention the Fedora Ambassadors program as something they need to
> learn from Fedora, that the Debian Community as strong in its tech stuff is
> weak on the social part, we also were glad to ear about our own Tatica, as
> sample of what a community can do to share knowledge and keep members
> interested.
>
> Tatica, as always thanks for your enthusiastic and energetic work on
> Fedora, now your fame grow a bit more to Debian Community.
>
> It was also a great thing to find out that a fellow ambassador from
> Salvador was part on the event
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Magjogui , thanks Jose to bring across
> the border the Fedora CD's and DVD's , we already have shared to the other
> cities that will hold Flisol this year. We could not do it with out
> Neville  help, thanks Neville.
>
> Hope one day we can have a FuDConf here in Panama, with all of you.
>
> This week was important to Panama Fedora Community as many people are
> getting interested on be part of it. Hope we can get all them join and work
> on some part of this project.
>
> Links to photos: 19 - Mar Pre Flisol
> http://picasaweb.google.com/alejandro.perez.torres/PreFlisol19Mar
> links to photos: 25 - Mar Pre Flisol
> http://picasaweb.google.com/alejandro.perez.torres/PreFlisol19Mar
> links to photos: Mini Deb Conf
> http://picasaweb.google.com/alejandro.perez.torres/PreFlisol19Mar
>
> We still have some other events on schedule April 8, at Camara de Comercio
> Panama, talk with David Bandel, an Author of 3 books about Linux now living
> on Panama. April 15 and Universidad Santa Maria la Antigua, Panamanian
> lawyer on Intelectual properties will talk about Panama status with Free
> Software License.
>
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