Software Freedom Day 2013 Panama

This year, SFD date and Innovation Fair in Panama has the same date, so we decide to join Innovation fair to share free software with high schools kids from all the country, we meet real interesting kids using Fedora, and other Linux distros, working with robotics, software chemical and all kind of interesting projects.

We show Fedora to teachers from towns we normally have no chance to visit.

FEL Fedora Electronic Spin was something that call their attention.

Icaro project also won a great numbers of fans with teachers and kits.

It was really nice, I have fun a got tire of talking to all.

Thanks to Ibeth Batista from Procient for inviting us.

We look forward to be part of this event next year.

Latam budget Report

This year Fedora community started the budget exerciser for first time, while we are certain it will be a good way to do planing and expending  help the regions ambassadors and events, it has been a good exercise for EMEA and LATAM regions so far.

Latam has a really slow start but we manage to assign it as best as possible and  spend it on the planned events, swags and media.

We already have assign the Q3 expenses and move F20 media production to Q4 as F20 has planned release date to December. 

It has been a great exercise for Latam we have manage to sponsor more ambassadors activities and they  logged and reported.  We have also have more active ambassadors on the list and meetings.

We send small amount of swags to  countries around the region so now we know we can distribute swags within Latam. 

While it has not been perfect and we probably have a loot of room for improvement, we will take the opportunity at  FudCon Cusco to meet and work on improvements.

So if you have some ideas and you are not going to Cusco, please drop me a line so we can take them into consideration.

Latam budget report can be found here

== Spanish ==

Proyecto Fedora promovió  la planeación de un prepuesto anual de gasto para eventos y artículos promocionales dentro de las regiones, este proceso a sido interesante y tenemos la confianza que ayudara mucho en la promoción de Fedora, hasta el momento Latam y Emea han logrado llevar adecuadamente el presupuesto.

Latam comenzó lento pero nos hemos ajustado de manera tal que ya tenemos los gastos del Q1 y Q2 bastante cerca de lo planeado mientras que Q3 ya tiene casi todo el presupuesto para eventos y swags asignado.
Aunque tendremos que pasar el presupuesto para medio para Q4 debido a que la liberación de Fedora 20 se pospuso hasta Dic.

Este proceso esta dando frutos, hemos tenido mas actividades con la participación de Fedora, mas embajadores activos y reportando sus actividades, mas actividad en las listas y las reuniones de Fedora latam.

Manejar el presupuesto no ha sido fácil y sin inconvenientes, de seguro tenemos mucho que mejorar.

Aprovecharemos la oportunidad que nos brinda el Fudcon Cusco para conversar ver la posibilidad de mejorar. Por lo que si tienes alguna idea dejala saber para considerarla.

El reporte del presupuesto actual esta aquí.