WOW! – that’s the only thing I can say right now. Sirko just send me the official link with Linuxwochen agenda and guess what? I will give the opening talk!!! I srsly can’t express how happy (and super nervous) this new makes me feel, but is a challenge I’m ready to take!! Is not only a challenge because of language and culture, but also will be a challenge because is not an easy to topic to talk about. I will be giving a keynote about Venezuela, and how an Entire Country Migrates To Linux. Venezuela has, like all Latin American countries, a strong interest in using free and open source software for many different purposes. That gives them more independence  [ Read More ]

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaR96s0bdg

Motivation is one factor that *can* encourage people to accept and fulfill challenges, even if they don’t think they can do it. Being part of a community like Fedora, where everyone is so different but everyone is working for towards common goal gives you an awesome opportunity to closely watch how motivation works for each one. However, keeping the motivation up is not always easy. As a community leader, it is important to identify what motivates the individuals that participates in a community – to identify what makes them tick – and work to not lose what makes that individual motivated to keep contributing to the group towards a common goal. When we expect everyone to be motivated by the  [ Read More ]

Este es Un pequeño saludo e invitación de mi parte (Caracas – Venezuela) a los compañeros del FLISoL Perú 2012. Espero les guste el FLISoL tanto como a mi!

Para mi es super SUPER grato comentarles que luego de mucho esfuerzo se ha logrado aprobar en primera vuelta y unánimamente el proyecto que establece el empleo obligatorio del sistema de Software Libre en los tres Poderes del Estado, entes descentralizados y empresas con participación estatal de Río Negro, en Argentina. Uno de los beneficios es el ahorro que el Estado realiza al no tener que abonar las importantes cifras que requiere la instalación de software legal en las computadoras de sus dependencias. Se habla de al rededor de 350 a 450 USD por cada una de las computadoras que se legaliza el software que utilizan. Sin embargo, la adopción de este sistema, más que una cuestión económica, es una  [ Read More ]

First I need to say THANK YOU (yes, yell at you) because we are so so so close to collect the money for the travel, that I just submit 2 talk for Linuxwochen. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude to all of you who have donated so far and those that will. This are the kind of actions that make you understand that what we do is right, and change is possible. People doesn’t realize that FLOSS, worldwide, is a huge family of people that not only teach you or learn from you, but also people who encourage you, support you and help you. Life is about the actions we do to improve what is arround us,  [ Read More ]

WOW! let me tell you that you guys are just beign AMAZING! If last wednesday we had 21 amazing people joining our hangout… we had 26 this time! Thank you for be part of this! I have come to the point of realize that VideoConferences are turning into an excellent way to interact, even if language can be a bit tricky sometimes, but is like hang with your coworkers (since at offices there is no contact either), is just like take a look over your desk and see your friends, that’s amazing. You have NO idea of how encouraged I feel when I see the feedback that you guys have push to this, when ideas are suported by people from  [ Read More ]

This is a weird photography experiment that has been in my head for the past week. I do like to base pictures on songs, is really inspiring, but I tried to take it a step beyond and do a full song. Some pics will repeat. Check the video here: May Your Hearts Stay Strong – Cloud Cult (Vimeo Link) If you want to see any of the pictures just click on them. But I would apreciate if you leave a comment on flickr. Thank yo ufor watching :) Flickr Gallery for “May your hearts stay strong” photo project

This is just a friendly reminder that we will have our weekly videoconference through Google+ this time, and our topic will be: How to be a Fedora Ambassador This will be a general talk about: How to join the Ambassadors program Steps to fullfill before open a trac tickets How to contact and interact with your mentor What to do once you are aproved What will Fedora expect from you once you’re an Ambassadors Tips to be the best ambassador When: Friday at click here to know your time Where: Google Hangout gplus.to/tatica Language: English (first 30min) / Spanish (second 30min)

Last night we had our first videoconference. Test started at 7:30pm and meeting ended at… 1:30AM! (and just because there was a blackout on my street). I didn’t expect this sucess, however, I embrace it. Maybe our community just need to use tools that aproach them and give them an oportunity to give faces to names and nicks. Last night was a clear example of this, where we had 21 people having an EXTRAORDINARY hangout like I had never seen… I can be completely honest and say that was as productive as a FUDcon (maybe someone can jump with an online FAD? :D ) I didn’t had a prepared conference for this time, since mostly I wanted to know how  [ Read More ]