Hello people! The Nicaraguan LoCo Team participated in the biggest free software/open source event in Latin America, FLISOL, the Latin American Free Software Installfest 2007 that was held on April 28 simultaneously in 17 countries and 160 cities in Latin America.
Ubuntu-ni was one of the organizers of the event in Nicaragua together with the Nicaraguan Free Software and Open Source Network. We had two huge events on this day in the capital city Managua and in the city of León (90 kms. from Managua). Some highlights of FLISOL Nicaragua 2007: - Aprox. 4,000 people assisted to both events - 17 conferences, 6 of them 100% Ubuntu related - 46 desktops and laptops got Ubuntu/Kubuntu installed - 500 CDs of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu were handed out, 90% of them locally produced - An unknown number of laptops got upgraded from Edgy to Feisty The University of Managua in León (UdeM) announced on the event that they are going to migrate all their Windows systems to Ubuntu (+400 computers), including servers and workstation. This project is going to be coordinated with the Ubuntu-ni local group in the university. Four other universities are also interested in Ubuntu. One of them have already migrated a whole department (public relations) to Ubuntu on the workstations and their servers to Debian. Datatex, one of the three biggest PC vendors in Nicaragua is exploring the possibility to sell computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. The Ubuntu-ni Team will provide training and local support. A few government agencies also contacted the Team and we will be meeting with the representatives of the Ministry of Governance, the Ministry of Defense and the Social Security Institute next week in order to advice them on the migration of their systems to Ubuntu. All in all, it has been a great day for the free software community in Nicaragua and specially for the Ubuntu-ni LoCo Team. We got a huge media attention with interviews in local TV and radio stations and several articles on the local newspapers. We are really happy and proud of all this, it has been our first big event and we showed that the Nicaraguan Ubuntu Community really rocks! Upcoming events for the team are the three month long Linux Tour Nicaragua 2007 and the Software Freedom Day in September. You can see some photos and videos of the event in: http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tags/flisol/ http://flickr.com/photos/marconipoveda/tags/flisol/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pgJWqkSOY Regards, Leo
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