Is really common that someone ask you about your Fedora Profile. Even if such thing doesn’t exist properly we have our Users Wiki pages that we are *supposed* to fill so people can contact us, know a bit more about what we do on fedora and any related comment we want to add (schedules, events, meetings, projects, etc). Even if I know is a really boring thing to do, let me encourage you to take some minutes to explain why you need to do it: If you want something, people need to know who the hell are you! If you’re interested on request media, swags, attend to events or anything… be sure that people will ask who are you? what  [ Read More ]

Si eres de habla hispana, da click en este enlace para leer la versión en español In our past meeting we finally pick a date that doesn’t collide with RHSummit and don’t increase prices (hollidays). FUDCon Margarita 2012 will take place on June 14-15-16-17. Even if this cut off 2 weeks from planning we are all happy with this date. You can read Logs and Minutes in here: Minutes (spanish) and Logs (spanish) Also, we are just waiting for the appoval letter from UDO Margarita (Guatamare) which will be the venue for this event. UDO, Universidad de Oriente, is a University that has been open to students from all arround our country since 1969. You can read more about UDO  [ Read More ]

One of the things that always make me feel happy when friends ask me “why are you part of Fedora” is that everyday you will find a great idea, a great project or an awesome team to be part of. When we change our status from “user” to “contributor”, we agree to teach what we know and try to make FOSS tools and strategies go further. So now let me tell you about our new project… Fedora Videos: What is Fedora Videos? Our contributor Nitesh Narayan Lal came up with an idea to create a serie of videos and give our users an interface to check them on an easier way. We could say that we want to teach fedora  [ Read More ]

El cáncer es una de las principales causas de mortalidad en todo el mundo. La OMS calcula que, de no mediar intervención alguna, 84 millones de personas morirán de cáncer entre 2005 y 2015. Cada 4 de febrero, la OMS apoya a la Unión Internacional contra el Cáncer y promueve medios para aliviar la carga mundial de la enfermedad. La prevención del cáncer y el aumento de la calidad de vida de los enfermos son temas recurrentes. Hay más de cien tipos de cáncer; cualquier parte del organismo puede verse afectada. En 2008 murieron de cáncer 7,6 millones de personas, lo que supone el 13% de todas las defunciones registradas en el mundo. Más del 70% de las muertes por  [ Read More ]

After our Fedora Videos meeting I found really interesting how organized are Fedora APAC community members. I must be honest, beside help them with some FUDCon Pune tasks I had no clue about what was going on at APAC. So I decide to stay until midnight (LATAM) and check out this saturday APAC meeting (morning). Following the rules * Respecting Meetings protocol: Dear lord… was so nice to have people respecting IRC meeting protocols that I really felt on heaven. When you have a really structured meetings wiki page, that people actually reads, everything is just easier. * Knowing zodbot: everything is easier when you know how to work with zodbot. First time I see on a meeting that all  [ Read More ]

Si eres de habla hispana, da click en este enlace para leer la versión en español Is really cool to see how FUDCon Margarita is taking shape. I always love to see how an idea become something real and how people envolved work as a team to acomplish each goal. Fedora is the kind of place where you want to hang out if you want to be part of something :) This week was full of tasks. We had our first meeting, which was really productive, and we delegate most of the tasks. That’s the way to work as team, however, we need to be more open and inform the rest of what we are doing, so our task don’t  [ Read More ]

El LibreBus es un proyecto en el que se recorren varios países de la región centroamericana (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala) y se complementa con espacios de participación en Internet… Una veintena de personas pasajeras de diversas nacionalidades y distintas habilidades se unen por un tema común: la Cultura Libre y la promoción del conocimiento para todos. El LibreBus es una invitación al diálogo y al encuentro, a la creación de redes regionales para el fortalecimiento de una cultura centroamericana compartida. El año pasado, el LibreBus viajó desde el 03 hasta el 16 de mayo de 2011, intercambiando experiencias alrededor del software libre, el conocimiento y la biodiversidad, la libertad de expresión y la libertad de compartir.  [ Read More ]

Maybe you have heard, that the next LGM – Libre Graphics Meeting, will be held in Vienna from May 2nd to Saturday May 5th That is the place where all the great and amazing FOSS artists and developers of the tools they use come together. For a lot of years, I have followed this event online.There was always amazing projects, ideas on this event. I live on the other side of the world and is really hard for me to attend. Flights from South America to Europe are really expensive. My crazy… Crazy friend Sirko (gnokii) created a donations page, where people can make donations. If I have helped you once, so maybe you can help me this time. :)  [ Read More ]

One of the things that I *had* to buy at USA was a power supply since my desktop computer was always shutting down when I plug anything (I couldn’t even use my DVD :/ ) Even if this wasn’t the one I was thinking on buy, was the best option. We went to so many stores that I was really driving crazy, however, worth it. I had saves for this since last year, because if you think on buy this kind of electronics in my country is completely insane (prices are +500%). Now I can say that I have a *monster* at home where I can start to render my blender videos again and do all the crazy stuff I  [ Read More ]

I think this 4 words can resume pretty much what’s FOSS about. A couple of months ago I had a small shutdown from linux communities since *real life* was going on, and with some friends help, I tried to figure out *why* we do what we do. Talking and giving a meaning to every action we take on this online world this 4 words got to resume everything. Why?: Learn: There is NO WAY you can be on ANY FOSS community or group if you are not willing to learn. Life itself is a learning journey that will take you to unknown places where you might get amazed. Some people join FOSS communities thinking that know everything, but soon they  [ Read More ]