FLISOL08
Sdävtaker
sdavtaker at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 13:11:28 PDT 2008
Since this thread was posted in DFBSD diggest, I'm adding a link to
the spanish post we did in our BUG blog for some further information,
sorry i dont have a english version, lacking of time to do translation
right now.
http://bugdcubaar.blogspot.com/2008/04/flisol-2008.html
Thanks Justin for the mention.
Damian
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Sdävtaker <sdavtaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FLISOL is a event run simultaneously in almost every latin american
> > country, several cities per country.
> > It is a BIIIIIIIIIIIIG installfest, there is a lot of people with low
> > or none experience in Open Source that bring the PC and a bunch of
> > volunteers help them to install enough software to run the day to day
> > activities and learn the first steps, usually the installation is a
> > ready-to-go Os, like Ubuntu, anyway there is recurrent users going,
> > who maybe had the first install 3 years ago and now looking for
> > something else and volunteers who are almost all linux-admins, we
> > focuses on the last group, there was a lot of curiosity about BSD and
> > about our BUG.
> > There is other activities too, there was some 1 hour conferences about
> > open standards, multimedia software, and other topics.
> > And there is some stands with people promoting some stuff, here in BA
> > was Ubuntu and "Buenos Aires Libre" the last one is a big regional
> > adhoc wifi network, it covers pretty much the whole city and is full
> > collaborative, the people there was teaching how to modify some
> > routers to get them into the network.
> > I was looking for a english version of the official FLISOL site, but
> > found nothing. :-(
> > FLISOL means LatinAmenrican Free Software Install Fest.
> > It runs once every year.
> > I just found this video in youtube, and i appear almost the whole video :-P
> > Im the one with the Green TShirt and the loooooooong hair talking with
> > people on the back and the cam shows me every 5 seconds, i didnt
> > notice someone was recording. :-P
> > http://youtube.com/watch?v=TkYen9NhkQI&feature=related
> > The Green TShirt was the oficial Tshirt here, i didnt choose the
> > color, I cant get lost in the antarctica wearing that:-(
> > See ya
> > Damian
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> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Matthew Dillon
> > <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
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> > > :Hey,
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> > > :I just wanted to share with everyone my experience in FLISOL08.
> > > :Me and some others BUG people volunteered to the FLISOL08 in Buenos
> > > :Aires, it was decided before we joined that everyone was going to get
> > > :Ubuntu installed unless they ask for something else. So we went to
> > > :install Ubuntu 8.04, but had some DFBSD 1.12.2 CDs in the bag ready for
> > > :installation.
> > > :We installed a lot of Ubuntus while talking with volunteers and
> > > :experienced users around about SOs stuff, FBSD7, DFBSD, Linux, Minix,
> > > :and why not, windows vista, We spreed the curiosity bug all around.
> > > :Since yesterday, we getting lot of msn/jabber/icq/mail from those who
> > > :are trying it at home now.
> > > :DFBSD was in the FLISOL! /cheer!
> > > :Damian
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> > > Cool stuff! I'm not sure what FLISOL08 is but I'm happy to see some
> > > DFBsd visibility there :-)
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> > > -Matt
> > > Matthew Dillon
> > > <dillon at backplane.com>
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> > Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
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> Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
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> Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
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Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
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