Desarrollando America Latina

Last weekend  I follow one of the best social and open source contributions on Latin America, the event call "Desarrollando America Latina" at desarrollandoamerica.org. An initiative from a group of people or social organizations to organize a hackaton, to address social issues with the open data initiative in latam, the organization manage to  held it on 6 countries Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay. 30 hours of coding with one goal social contribution on  subjects as  Security, Education and Public budget, one of the rules of this contest was that all code must be release as open source. More info at desarrollandoamerica.org

This is the kind of initiative we do not see very often in latam, and we need more of them.

All code develop on this 30 hours can be found at https://github.com/desarrollandoAmericaLatina


Winners at http://desarrollandoamerica.org/2011/12/ganadores-regionales-dal2011/

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El fin de semana pasado tuve la oportunidad de seguir uno de los eventos mas interesantes del año, Desarrollando America Latina desarrollandoamerica.org, un evento organizado por un grupo de personas y organizaciones sociales con el objetivo de reunir a programadores, plantearles problemas sociales de las comunidades o países y desarrollar aplicaciones que ayuden a solucionar los mismos. Los temas escogidos para este año fueron Seguridad, Educación y Presupuesto Publico. Así pues durante 30 horas equipos de Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru y Uruguay se reunieron para desarrollar aplicaciones para los problemas planteados. Lo importante es que dentro de las reglas de participación todo el código generado durante el evento se liberaría como codigo abierto, esto con la finalidad que pueda ser utilizado mejorado, etc. Para mas información desarrollandoamerica.org

No vemos este tipo de iniciativas en latinoamerica con mucha frecuencia por lo que felicito a sus organizadores y esperemos ver mas de eventos de este tipo en el futuro.

Todo el codigo desarrollado durante el evento se encuentra en: https://github.com/desarrollandoAmericaLatina

Equipos ganadores http://desarrollandoamerica.org/2011/12/ganadores-regionales-dal2011/

Felicidades a todos los que participaron de este evento.

Fedora 16 Release Party

Fedora 16 Release Party, a set on Flickr.

Panama Celebrated the Release Party at UTP (Universidad Tecnologica de Panama) thanks.

Fedora 16 In America Economia Magazine

Fedora 16 Verne


Interestining Fedora 16 Verne, was mention on an latin America Economic Magazine  America Economia. Check out the articule at:
http://tecno.americaeconomia.com/noticias/sistema-operativo-fedora-16-ya-esta-disponible

Fedora 16 "Verne" Beta

Installed Alpha version of "Verne", in a Toshiba notebook, work smooth and fast, Gnome3 did not work because the ATI Raedon 9200i embed video card, so I have to play a bit with KDE, for a while, wanted to get the module, but there was no module for kernel version 3.1 that come with Verne.

After playing with alpha Beta version was announce, so I got my main machine and upgrade it to Verne using preupgrade tool, it toke some time, around 4 hours to get it to the reboot point to Fedora 16, it did not complain of any thing and found my encrypted partition on the machine with no issue. When I was  playing with Verne notice that it did not install the new kernel on grub, so I installed by hand and when it was ready to used  my screen when black with a kernel message that could not find my encrypted partition, seems like preupgrade was smart enough to figured out that the kernel image could not manage the encrypted partition, so reboot to the old Fedora 15 kernel and everything when fine, since I did not want to create a new initrd image to include the encrypted  module into the image, and everything was working fine with the old kernel, I decide to wait for an updated, two kernel updates later and now I have my Verne update complete running a 3.1 version of the kernel with my encrypted partition.

Verne seem faster than Fedora 15, Gnome 3.2 works fine, but give some issues with version 3 shell extensions that I had to remove. All other things runs pretty well. Seems like it is going to be another rock solid Fedora release. By the way love the background, thanks design team.

Fedora Activity Day At Santiago de Veraguas Panama

After a little travel, we arrive at Universidad Tecnologica de Panamá, there we meet a wonderful team of students and teachers, and start sharing our experience as part of Fedora community, and share what we knew about fedora packaging, many of them show their interest on become a packager, we work with them with some limitations as the internet connection was really bad, but we manage to show them how to package on two packages one on python and the other in ruby. At the end of the day we create a little contest were we download a orphan package, and created some errors on the spec file, and they have to figured out errors and fixed, that was really fun and two of them find the errors and manage the package. As a price we give them the last Fedora USB. It was fun and we enjoy it as they did. The winner of this contest was Ovidio Grosso. 

Thanks to cidetys, Querube Urriola and the UTP Santiago, for organize this event, and Abdel Martinez, Luis Bazan and Issis, and Juan Barba.

Hope we have the opportunity to share another time with them.

FAD Santiago, a set on Flickr.

Fedora Activity Day, Santiago, Veraguas

After a little travel, we arrive at Universidad Tecnologica de Panamá, there we meet a wonderful team of students and teachers, and start sharing our experience as part of Fedora community, and share what we knew about fedora packaging, many of them show their interest on become a packager, we work with them with some limitations as the internet connection was really bad, but we manage to show them how to package on two packages one on python and the other in ruby. At the end of the day we create a little contest were we download a orphan package, and created some errors on the spec file, and they have to figured out errors and fixed, that was really fun and two of them find the errors and manage the package. As a price we give them the last Fedora USB. It was fun and we enjoy it as they did. The winner of this contest was Ovidio Grosso. 

Thanks to cidetys, Querube Urriola and the UTP Santiago, for organize this event, and Abdel Martinez, Luis Bazan and Issis, and Juan Barba.

Hope we have the opportunity to share another time with them.

FAD Santiago, a set on Flickr.