Hi Ambassadors! Heres the news from the last four months
As Leader of the CoreTeam of Proyecto Fedora Argentina, the activities day by day are pretty hard. Dedicated almost 4 hours per day to talk to Universities (the main target of the local project) creating contents for the websites, strategic agreements with non profit organizations and thigns like that, takes our work to the limit. But this limit is the deepest sensation of "make the difference" .
Since January, when I start the project in Buenos Aires, Julian Somodi ( Director of Red Hat Southamerica) , spents hours with me talking about the need to spread and "recreate" the Open Source community in Argentina. So, thats the point, spread the knowledge with the Fedora weapons, means more than spread Linux. Means transfer the knowledge for everyone. This is the hire point of success of Fedora in Argentina.
Our Activities in Time Line December 26th 2006 Red Hat SouthAmerica Offices. The plan was ready. Our main target will be Universities, project starts January 8th. JAN -Proyecto Fedora Argentina Web site was ready. Later this was transfered to a .com.ar domain for security reasons. A respin version of Joomla and 47 hours of pacthing was necessary to put the site on line. -Starting the Universities trip. UADE and UAI confirmed meetings for Frebruary. FEB UADE and UAI accepted to collaborate with Fedora in Argentina. Confirming Fedora Showcase for May, 2007 The Induction Manual #| (A pressed magazine with 32 pages) was designed. Santiago Silva from Red Hat developes my writings and modification of the official installation manual. The Argentinian DVD Edition was confirmed for FLISOL 2007. MAR I signed a " frame contract" with UAI, to start the FEdora local project inside UAI since June. All the stuff are in preparation for late May. Alejandro Casas (IBM/LUGUM) accept to spread Fedora Argentina in and public University: UNMM. We start to work on line, to get some sponsors and resources to make possible the presentation of Fedora Argentina in FLISOL. Thanx to Alejandro for Support. Lucas Coudures Joins the Team. Member of LUGUM (Linux Users Group Universidad de la Matanza). Lucas become the leader webmaster of the project. He is manager of the local mailing list, too. LUGUM team visits Fedora and Red Hat team to spread Fedora and Red Hat Activities in University of La Matanza.(The Lug University) Nicolas, as a new ambassador, starts some talkings at OLPC meetings in Buenos Aires. APR Lucas Coudures starts this own ambassador road. Good luck! (a lot of work is coming!) I traveled to Porto Alegre (Brazil) to FISL 8 2007, to give a little speech about Proyecto Fedora Argentina in a 250 people audiences. David Barzilay from Red Hat Brazil and Fedora Brazil Leader, help me all the time in the Event. Kim from Red Hat Magazine: Interview around Fedora Project and Open Source concepts for Red hat Magazine (Thanx Kim and The Cam Man!) Today Friday I will go to La Plata ( The capital of the Province of Buenos Aires) to make the first presentation of Fedora Argentina. Nicolas will talk in radio in the morning. And looking for DVDs sent by Thomas and some created by us with Argentinian Artwork made by Nicholas. Tomorrow, Sat 28th, The second presentation of Fedora Argentina. At 12.00PM my speech about the project, and at 15hs the installation by Nicolas Corrarelo. At 3PM I will give a third talk about Fedora Argentina, in another FLISOL city at 48kms. (so, what a day!) MAY (to come) May 4th UADE FEDORA SHOWCASE. May 25th (to confirm) UAI FEDORA SHOWCASE
So the next for June Neuquen (North Patagonia) Esteban Echeverria (Buenos Aires prov.) UBA (univesity buenos aires) Fedora will be part of the DiseƱo Libre project speech by Julia Velasco (Institutional Relationships of Fedora Argentina, and Head Leader of DiseƱoLibre.org)
So two new universities to confirm....
So thats we are doing all this time.
A lot, and a lot is coming!