Activities last week

Last Friday and Saturday we set up an booth at the Expo X^n fair in the UTP (Universidad Tecnologica de Panama), Nicolas and other members of Fedora where there to answer questions and show Fedora. The fair goal was to show all the different activity groups within the UTP, it was really stimulative to see the amount of groups and activities that students can enjoy.

This week floss-pa organize the KDE produKtivity Day, were David Narvaez from gentoo community and Ricardo Chung from Open Suse, show all the amazing features of KDE and how the used take advantage of them, really cool features.

Fedora 17 Release Party Panama

We had fun on this release party, organised by fellow ambassador Karina Sánches, with the help of other ambassadors from the Panamanian Fedora Community it was small attendance but we have lots of fun talking about what we are doing in Fedora as contributors and encouraging others to become Fedora contributors.

There was also a great time to install some Fedora 17 and upgrade others.

And of course we have Beefy Miracle for Lunch.

Plus Beefy Miracle Cake.

Java error on Eclipse Fedora 17

This is a follow up on my Fedora 17 update, the only issue I had was the eclipse error, it turn out to be a simple detail, because it was an update and I did had install Sun Java, the software link was not updated to the java-1.7.0 that comes with Fedora 17, so a simple solution:

cd /etc/alternatives

then

rm java

and then
ln -s   /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java

that took care of the issue.
Now my eclipse works fine.


By the way it is election season in Fedora so go vote I did.

Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle Release Party Panama

Fedora 17 release Party Panama, Saturday Jun 2 at the community center.


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From 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, come join us, learn the new features, and how to contribute to Fedora Project.

Organisers: Karina Sanche , Johel Batista and Nicolás Nieszawski

Fedora 17 Miracle Beefy

Miracle Beefy has been very elusive on my computer, normally start testing every version of Fedora a month before the release, this time was more complicated not sure why. First installed in the old Toshiba Satellite M35XS329 using pre-upgrade when well, all do present some issues with the wireless network card, the module did not load properly, I had to manually remove it and loaded again to make it work. Several updates from the kernel solve the issue. But that was on alfa. Then try to do pre-upgrade on the HP Probook 6550b and fail, every time it finish all the pre upgrade process but did after reboot it did not work, so after try it on Alfa and Beta, decide to download the Beta DVD and update from it, all updated was complete and working fine. One issue with Eclipse  do not allow it to load seems like it is trying to run using Java 1.6 that is not present on Miracle Beefy as it works with Java 1.7

eclipse.buildId=I20120503-1800
java.version=1.6.0_21
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86_64

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2012-05-26 10:25:41.429
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: javax/inject/Singleton : Unsupported maj
or.minor version 51.0

There is a bug report for this but it is close to be open close to release day so hope someone has solve the issue.

For everything else working great on Fedora 17.

Congrats to all that make this new release possible.

Flisol Panama 2012

It was a really great Flisol, it was pretty well organized and the results talk by then self. Abdel, manage to bring over 250 people to the talks, install fest, and thanks to all speakers and sponsors people enjoy it and had fun.

We were overwhelm by the attention and interest of visitors.

It was kind of a family day

to our surprise there were not more chairs left.

Sponsors enjoy attendance attention.

Girls rocks.

 Kiara showing Arduino board and led cube

 Android PTY

And why not a few surprises some local applications

And some people even win an Android Cell phone.

Over all was a great event, thanks to Abdel for Organizing it. Many thanks to Jorge Matsufuji and Ivett Batista for host it.

 After the event

Thanks to all that came and will be planning a greater event for next year.

It is that time again. Time for Flisol

Latam, is ready for FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Software Libre) is the largest free software event in the world, almost every mayor city in latam celebrate its, this event dedicated to share and install free software.
It also host talks about many free software topics, share free culture and others.
This year Panama is ready for the FLISOL thanks to the work of Abdel Martinez who lead this community effort.

So if you are in downtown Panama on April, Saturday 28, come and join us.
For more information on Panama FLISOL visit www.flisolpanama.com

Spanish

Latinoamerica esta listo para el FLISOL, el evento de software libre mas grande del planeta, se lleva a cabo en casi todas las ciudades principales de America latina, cada ciudad con su propia organización y evento, todo el mismo día.
Este año el esfuerzo de la organización de este evento en la ciudad de Panamá lo realizo Abdel Martinez.

Así pues si estas en Panamá el sábado 28 de Abril, ven, participa, comparte y aprende, para mayor información acerca del evento visita www.flisolpanama.com .