nicaragua – openSUSE Lizards

FLISOL 2010 in Nicaragua

Julio Vannini — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:24:28 +0000

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.

openSUSE Half-Day @ UNAN, June 12

Julio Vannini — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:47:18 +0000

Incoming event @ Nicaragua

OpenSUSE Nicaragua @ FLISOL 2009

Julio Vannini — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:00:59 +0000

On Saturday April 25th, the Nicaraguan OpenSUSE Community joined forces with the Free Software Community (GUL-Nic) to celebrate the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival, (FLISOL in Spanish).

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*

How many Lizards does it takes…

Julio Vannini — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:45:09 +0000

… to change a flat tire?

The answer: 3

It’s been a while since the 3 oS Members from Nicaragua were planning to take a picture together, but for time, job and other complications we have been unable to do it.

But yesterday, caused perhaps for a bug in our kernels, the 3 of us gathered together outside Alex’s ex-office, after retrieving some promotional material from Novell at Alex’s place.

We started to talk about one of the Projects for Nicaragua and forgot completely about the picture. Moments laters and got into my car and DANG!, noticed the flat tire. Alex and Decks came and helped me to empty my car’s trunk when I noticed my camera. A bell rang inside my head and CLICK! A picture came out.

Not exactly the situation and posse we were thinking about… but it worked. :p