Flisol Venezuela/Caracas celebrated at april 28th in Ince
Caracas/Venezuela was visited by 1500 approx. during the day it last.
Fedora Venezuela was present with three speeches/presentations made by its
representatives in the provided auditorium which holded around 200 people plus some
outside people (maybe 100 more) viewing with the help of large tv monitors.
The whole program of speakers was recorded by some local TV organizations (Colombeia).
The first conference was made by Guillermo Gomez who talked about Fedora and Fedora
Venezuela and focused his speech towards the free software and its principles and ethics.
Guillermo defended Fedora from a 100% free sw point of view with no acceptance of
deviations and demonstrated how Fedora is leading the way on this regard.
This speech was changed at last time since previous speakers were missleading the people.
Guillermo decided to switch its regular presentation to a reflexive speech explaining and
asking the people to understand what free sw means and why we do not include support for
propierarty codecs for example, and to ask people to be responsible ethically with sw
selection and why this matters.
This speech was very well accepted and greatly rewarded by the people. Some people went
to Fedora boot afterwards to talk to us about it.
Walter Cervini made a second presentation in the afternoon, a technical one, regarding
security, iptables, tcp-wrappers and selinux and how they are integrated in Fedora.
The last speech was conducted by Wilmer Jaramillo who also made a technical presentation
about Fedora Directory Server and its relevance on the migration plans in the government
dependencies.
By Fedora Venezuela we had a Maria Leandro and Richzendy Contreras helping in our stand
giving away DVDs and helping people to install Fedora on theris machines.
They also provided people with flyers (about 500) and small lectures about Fedora.
We gave away 80 DVDs and we were really short, DVDs from Freemedia program didnt make it
so we built a list with interested people in order to deliver them a copy.
Rodrigo de Padula provided the mentioned 80 DVDs. We believe this is the true starting
point for our freemedia program (stalled previously).
In general we believe the event was a major success for the whole FOSS community in our
country and the region and of course, for Fedora.
Press notes (spanish):
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http://www.fedora-ve.org/content/view/187/77/
http://www.ince.gov.ve/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=...
Event pictures:
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http://www.fedora-ve.org/component/option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,71/catid,10/
Fedora Venezuel:
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http://www.fedora-ve.org
This report was made in collaboration between Wilmer Jaramillo and myself.