This year will be a great year for Linux lovers in Panama because several free and open source communities users, business people, academics, communications media and gouvernment wil have convergency for planning the Information Technologies and Telecommunications National Strategies for Logistics, Finances, Education, etc.

Click on link to watch photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/RICARDO.A.CHUNG/FLISoL_2010#

March 13th openSUSE Ambassador for Panama, Ricardo Chung (amonthoth), gave a talk at Universidad Interamericana de Panama (UIP is Laureate) for a small students group about openSUSE graphic installing procedures and customizations. How to add repositories, softwares applications and customize the desktop. This is the first of openSUSE talk series preparing activities for FLISoL 2010 at Ciudad del Saber. Educative scenarios as this one are the open source seeds for an open future and great development opportunities.

UIP it’s maybe the only university on this country offering Linux Diplomados looking for LPI certification. UIP has a ProMetric Certification LPI Authorized Center.

Here they are the New Generation for open source.

]]> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/03/10/flisol-2010-in-nicaragua/ https://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/03/10/flisol-2010-in-nicaragua/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:24:28 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=3441 The folks of the openSUSE Community in Nicaragua, are preparing a great event in the city of Granada, Nicaragua, in Central America.

After some considerations and discussion within the Nicaraguan LUGs Community, SUSE-Ni was appointed to carry on with the FLISOL event on April 24th.

FLISOL stands for “Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre”: Free Software Installation Latinamerican Festival, where we make live demostrations and installation of Linux on the computers being carried by the crowd.

Nicaragua’s plans are to host 3 FLISOL events in 3 different cities: Managua, Granada and Leon (for the moment), leaving the management and direction in every site to one particular LUG.

For us, the openSUSE Group in Nicaragua, this is a great opportunity to participate in leading one of the main groups and to send personnel to the remaining places, so we can provide a permanent and effective presence in the Country.

Our Main event will take place at the Casa de los 3 Mundos, a Cultural Meeting place, administrated by Mr. Dieter Stadler. The house has enough room for us and for the visiting public.

More to come in the following days, detailing our plans and organization for the event.

My wife Sonia and me, plus Agustin Chavarria and another SuSE fan!

The Festival took place at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria Campus (UNI-IES), reaching more than 300 visitors.

OpenSUSE and Novell banners!

Although there were several LUGs performing, OpenSUSE was one of the most solicited distros for installing. We installed the 11.1 version on 7 laptops.  And as usual, all others distros were after our stuffed penguins and geekos!

My wife Sonia. Yeah, she loves the Penguin too!

Agustin Chavarria performing the First Instalation of the event: OpenSUSE 11.1!

Fatima Mendoza and Hellman Taleno

A glimpse of the crowd in the Show Room. More and more coming during the day!

We continue working spreading the word of the Green Lizards!

*Update:  I corrected the name… shame of me! hehe*