Vergüenza ajena Junio 27, 2008
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Eso es lo que se siente cuando se leen noticias como ésta.
¿No se supone que la UNI, la universidad tecnológica por excelencia, tiene como principios los valores de libertad, equidad, democracia y solidaridad, en dónde uno de sus pilares es promover la libre creación, investigación y difusión del arte, las letras, la ciencia y la tecnología?
Dicen que el papel aguanta lo que le pongan, en el caso de la UNI es muy cierto; por un lado dizque andan promoviendo el Software Libre, y por el otro, obligan a sus alumnos a utilizar (comprar, piratear) software privativo.
La doble moral… muy de moda hoy en día.
Deberían de aprender de nuestras empobrecidas escuelas públicas, centros de enseñanza que no cuentan con la abundancia de recursos de un 6% que se despilfarra en gastos excesivos e innecesarios.
Bet on the future Junio 19, 2008
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Jalapa is a municipality in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua, which is located on the border of Honduras.
Jalapa is a very poor region and was one of the most affected by the civil war in the 80’s.
Today, the local government of Jalapa is making a strong bet on the future, migrating their workstations and servers to Free and Open Source Software, specifically Ubuntu Linux.
It’s an unique opportunity to narrow the digital divide and bring progress to the rural communities. A big ‘Thank You’ to the members of our LoCo Team that has been working hard for several months to make this initiative come true.
Quick update – Past events Junio 18, 2008
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June 4-5: FERTEC 2008 @ UNAN
June 5: Jornadas Ubunteras I @ UCA
June 6: SFD Meeting @ ISI
June 12: Jornadas Ubunteras II @ UCA
June 14: Playing FoF @ Mandriva Day
One of the casualties of the Mandriva Day
Yep, we kick arse too!
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On being an Ubuntu Member Junio 17, 2008
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El Nuevo Diario, one of the major newspapers in Nicaragua, published a half-page interview with Norman García Aguilar, the Ubuntu-ni team leader.
You can see the on-line edition here, or a ‘quick-and-dirty’ English translation here.
United we are strong Junio 13, 2008
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The Ubuntu Translation Sprint was meant to conclude four hours ago, but we’re still here translating.
It has been a very productive day, we’ve translated +700 strings in Rosetta, but the best thing about todays event was that we had members from the other Linux communities in Nicaragua (Fedora, openSuse and Debian) translating Ubuntu packages.
This is a perfect example on how people with different backgrounds and interests can contribute and work together in harmony for the benefit of the whole FOSS community.
I was particularly amused by seeing Neville, a Fedora guy, translating Ubuntu packages on a Debian box. Priceless!
Thank you all! See you in the next Translation Sprint!
Ubuntu Translation Sprint Junio 10, 2008
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Do you speak Spanish? Do you want to contribute back to this awesome community? Great! Read the guidelines and join us this Friday 13th (15:00-22:00 UTC) in #ubuntu-ni at irc.freenode.net for the Ubuntu Translation Sprint.
Oh… you don’t speak Spanish? No worries! You can join us anyway and meet some of the cool guys from the Spanish speaking community, have a beer with us and translate into your favorite language.
Primer aniversario de mi blog Junio 5, 2008
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Algunas cifras:
- ~122 posts
- ~300 comentarios
- ~11,400 visitas (sin contar vistas por sindicación)
- Visitas junio 2007: 161
- Visitas mayo 2008: 3,010
Gracias a todos por leer, comentar y enlazar…
Hace un año: Arranca el Linux Tour 2007
Resistance is futile Junio 4, 2008
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Today, the Ubuntu El Salvador team got approved as an official team. This is one step forward towards our goal of an approved team in every Central American country by 2008.
Congrats to all the Guanacos! [1] Greetings goes also to the Ubuntu Ecuador and Ubuntu Perú teams that got approved today as well. Latino power!!
[1] Guanaco (Salvadoran slang), an informal demonym that Salvadorans use to refer to themselves.
No time to rest Junio 3, 2008
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It’s going to be a pretty busy month for our FOSS community. Lots of activities and events to keep track of.
June 4-5: FERTEC – The National Autonomous University Technological Fair. We’re going to have a stand there and give a couple of talks.
June 5: Jornadas Ubunteras – The local Ubuntu community in the Central American University (UCA) is going to present a documentary titled “Linux Code”.
June 6: II Almidón Workshop for Developers – The local GNU/Linux community, in partnership with Guegue and ISI, are organizing a second workshop for Almidón developers. Almidón is a popular CMS released under a GPLv3 license. It’s used in over 200 web sites, including El Nuevo Diario, SIMAS, and many other.
June 6: SFD Planning – After the Almidón workshop, we’re going to have a meeting in order to plan for the Software Freedom Day 2008.
June 8: Ubuntu-ni meeting – The Ubuntu-ni Community Council is having its first meeting of the month.
June 12: The local Ubuntu community in the Central American University (UCA) strikes back! This time we’re having an introductory conference about Contributing to Ubuntu.
June 13: Ubuntu Translation Sprint – Our very first translation sprint on Friday 13th. There’s no place for bad luck here.
June 14: Mandriva Install Party – The youngest community in .ni are organizing their first event. We’re going to give them a hand with some FOSS related conferences.
June 15: UNI LAN Party – We’ve been invited to this event by a local gamers community. Time to play some FoF, Urban Terror and (my favorite) Frozen Bubble!!
June 20: openSuse Day/Linux Tour – The members of the local open Suse community are invading the campus of UNICIT for a day long event.
Not scheduled yet: Our third Strategic Planning Workshop + a couple of birthdays (yes, we party too!!).
Rest? Who has time for that?
BTW: Good luck El Salvador, Perú and Ecuador on your approval today!
