Re: FLISOL08

["Sdävtaker" <sdavtaker@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Since this thread was posted in DFBSD diggest, I'm adding a link to
  the spanish post we did in our BUG blog for some further information,
  sorry i dont have a english version, lacking of time to do translation
  right now.
 http://bugdcubaar.blogspot.com/2008/04/flisol-2008.html
  Thanks Justin for the mention.
  Damian
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>   On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Sdävtaker <sdavtaker@gmail.com> wrote:
>   > FLISOL is a event run simultaneously in almost every latin american
>   >  country, several cities per country.
>   >  It is a BIIIIIIIIIIIIG installfest, there is a lot of people with low
>   >  or none experience in Open Source that bring the PC and a bunch of
>   >  volunteers help them to install enough software to run the day to day
>   >  activities and learn the first steps, usually the installation is a
>   >  ready-to-go Os, like Ubuntu, anyway there is recurrent users going,
>   >  who maybe had the first install 3 years ago and now looking for
>   >  something else and volunteers who are almost all linux-admins, we
>   >  focuses on the last group, there was a lot of curiosity about BSD and
>   >  about our BUG.
>   >  There is other activities too, there was some 1 hour conferences about
>   >  open standards, multimedia software, and other topics.
>   >  And there is some stands with people promoting some stuff, here in BA
>   >  was Ubuntu and "Buenos Aires Libre" the last one is a big regional
>   >  adhoc wifi network, it covers pretty much the whole city and is full
>   >  collaborative, the people there was teaching how to modify some
>   >  routers to get them into the network.
>   >  I was looking for a english version of the official FLISOL site, but
>   >  found nothing. :-(
>   >  FLISOL means LatinAmenrican Free Software Install Fest.
>   >  It runs once every year.
>   >  I just found this video in youtube, and i appear almost the whole video :-P
>   >  Im the one with the Green TShirt and the loooooooong hair talking with
>   >  people on the back and the cam shows me every 5 seconds, i didnt
>   >  notice someone was recording. :-P
>   >  http://youtube.com/watch?v=TkYen9NhkQI&feature=related
>   >  The Green TShirt was the oficial Tshirt here, i didnt choose the
>   >  color, I cant get lost in the antarctica wearing that:-(
>   >  See ya
>   >  Damian
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>   >  On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Matthew Dillon
>   >  <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
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>   >  >  :Hey,
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>   >  > :I just wanted to share with everyone my experience in FLISOL08.
>   >  >  :Me and some others BUG people volunteered to the FLISOL08 in Buenos
>   >  >  :Aires, it was decided before we joined that everyone was going to get
>   >  >  :Ubuntu installed unless they ask for something else. So we went to
>   >  >  :install Ubuntu 8.04, but had some DFBSD 1.12.2 CDs in the bag ready for
>   >  >  :installation.
>   >  >  :We installed a lot of Ubuntus while talking with volunteers and
>   >  >  :experienced users around about SOs stuff, FBSD7, DFBSD, Linux, Minix,
>   >  >  :and why not, windows vista, We spreed the curiosity bug all around.
>   >  >  :Since yesterday, we getting lot of msn/jabber/icq/mail from those who
>   >  >  :are trying it at home now.
>   >  >  :DFBSD was in the FLISOL! /cheer!
>   >  >  :Damian
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>   >  >    Cool stuff!  I'm not sure what FLISOL08 is but I'm happy to see some
>   >  >    DFBsd visibility there :-)
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>   >  >                                         -Matt
>   >  >                                         Matthew Dillon
>   >  >                                         <dillon@backplane.com>
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