Leadership is key

Around three years ago, I decide to join fedora ambassadors group, it has been quite a ride, meting new friends, local and international, giving talks and be part of the local free software and open source community, but about all, when joining the group without knowing it, became the leader of the local Fedora community group, over time many others brilliant and enthusiastic young people join the group, many of them join other groups within Fedora, they share their knowledge and promote Fedora.

As with all things it is time for a change, time to let some one else take the lead Fedora Panama, Abdel “Potty” Martinez, has been around Fedora Panama, helping, giving talks and more important bringing new talent to the Fedora Community, so he is the natural choice to lead Fedora Panama.

I will continue to be part of this community, and be around to help on anything I can, thanks to all that invite to give talks and all of you who listen to them, but about all, all of you go join Fedora. Special thanks to my wife and son who support me on this.

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.

On the must read list.

One of my friends David Narvaez, a founder member of floss-pa.org,  has wrote an article about SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and all other legislation around and to come, to deal with piracy, or at least try.

On his article title  Electrocuting Modern Elephants he take Tomas Alba Edison, and his battle versus AC, back when electricity was the new technology, as sample of what old traditional business model  are trying to do, to keep a live promoting this laws.

Definitive an article on the must read list.

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 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