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.

mejorandomx conference Panama site

The younger member of Fedora Panama, Johel Batista a 14 year old, web developer, entrepreneur and Free software enthusiastic, join with Trisfera group, and contacted the organizer of mejorando.la and Maestros de la Web, who organize a conference in Mexico, to set a site on Panama, and meet with all local follower to watch and give talk to be streamed to all Latam, I was invited to give a talk on free software languages to develop web sites.For two day they meet to listen to all talks via stream from Mexico and present and stream their local talks to all Latam. Congratulations to Johel and Trisfera for this initiative.

We spend a fun time and later spend time on CoderBuddy department where we share experiences and  ideas to improve community participation.

Thanks Johel for Inviting me.
Thanks Adrian Scott of Codder Buddy.

Floss Parking Enero 2012

Floss Pa, group meets once a month on an activity call floss parking, this month we meet at New York Bagels Coffe, this is an unformal event, and there is no specific topics, however this time we had some topics on the agenda, Flisol, SOPA and all other freedom restriction initiatives, the first developing project for floss-pa community was part of the agenda.

On Flisol we share previous experiences organizing Flisol Panama, this year Panama city leader will be one of our own Abdel "Potty" Martinez.

SOPA, PIPA and ACTA was a topic that has rise lots of concerns, and patents trolls.

Floss-pa first software project took more time on the talk,  David Narvaez will lead the group and you will soon start reading more details about it, as we organize and start coding, but some code samples are already been done.

It also was an opportunity to meet face to face to python community, that will be starting small project on their own.


The rest of the time we share and enjoy, good coffee, burgers and more.

Panama 2012 activities

2011 was a great year, full with floss activities, this year, floss-pa community and Fedora community, is planning to participate on all mayor Panamanian floss activities and FudCon Margarita.

This is the schedule for mayor floss activities on Panama this year.

Document Freedom Day Mach 28 2012

Azuero Campus Party 30 & 31 de March 2012
http://congreso.ls.utp.ac.pa/csp2012/

FLISOL   21 de April 2012

Fedora 17 Release Party  May 26 2012

Linux Day August 27 2012

Software Freedom Day September 14  2012




Drupal Camp Centro America October 11-13 2012

Fedora 18 Release Party November 24 2012

We are planning to have other additional activities, plus talks and Fedora boots to any activity we are invited.

Will keep you posted as we reach each one of those dates.

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 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.

Software Freedom Day 2011 Panama

It was that time of the year once again, Software Freedom Day, this year we held it at UTP (Universidad Tecnologica de Panama), we meet we with all local communities and with all freedom lover, we had talks, and debate about if Linux was ready for the desktop, with an outstanding conclusion, we are ready but we need to educate our new users, our competition is in every school, while we are left out to some university and courses.  Debate was moderated by Cris Faw.



Diego Tejera, welcome everyone to the event and give an introduction to free software, and the state of local communities.
Kiara Navarro talked about FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab), trying not to be technical.
Juan Barba, surprise use with his talk about "how to be part of Fedora Design and the process to get his art into Fedora 16", the surprise part was his talk done with Sozi.
Luis Bazan talk about his experience with Fedora, and how it is impacting his job.
Abdel Martinez did his presentation on rpmdev project.
Monica Mora, talk about her experience on the Wikipedia community.
Cris Faw talk about android from an Idea to global revolution.
Adrian Scott talk about python, and how to create your first application with Django.

We give away CD and DVD of Fedora and stickers.


After a great day we enjoy some pizza with the group, and later part of the group enjoy a movie.

Next event will be on Sept 24, were we will visit Santiago de Veraguas Panamá, to crash course on packaging and more Fedora stuff.


Software Freedom Day 2011 Panama