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Venezuela Launches Sale of Bolivarian Computers – and they run Ubuntu too :)

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In less than 1.5 years the Venezuelan governement went from zero, creating a partnership with a Chinese company, to mass production of affordable desktop and laptop computers running free software (full specs here), with a big price difference compared to other local offerings, up to 40%! This is less than 3 years after announcing a massive move to free software in all government agencies.

I’ ve blogged before about the action in Venezuela, but this blows my mind. Well, at least as much as the Guadalinex project and their 400 000 desktops deployment.

Although they remain vague in the choice of operating systems, all the annoucements about the « Bolivarian » Computers launch do mention they will run Gnu/Linux and  » be compatible  » with Windows. Even production is local. And what capacity do they have ? 150K units a year, that’ s right 150 000 systems every year. In case you haven’t noticed, Ecuador and Cuba have recently announced free, open-source software policies to replace existing IT operations agressively. Coincidence ? I think not.

Scrolling down to the very last question in their FAQ, we can see:

De manera consecuente con la misión de alcanzar la Independencia Tecnológica de la Nación, VIT promueve el empleo del Software Libre, por lo que los equipos son entregados a solicitud del cliente con sistema operativo bajo ambiente Linux, siendo compatibles con Knoppix, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian y otros.

which translates to

Followin our mission to reach Technological Independency of our Nation, VIT promotes the use of Free Software, so the systems are delivered to customers with Linux operating systems, compatible with Knoppix, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian and others.

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Freedom takes the streets in Bogota, Colombia

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If you are in Bogota, Colombia or know anyone interested in free culture and content production living there, this may be of interest 🙂 There will be a screening TONIGHT at 6:30PM of the BBC’s Codebreakers documentary at the Mediatorta, a public cultural space provided by the city 🙂

I am really excited that the spanish subtitling was possible after I managed to obtain a release of the original english transcript under a Creative Commons BY licence. Getting the transcript was the easy part but translating it to spanish was a huge effort by a few dedicated individuals – credit goes to Gustavo Gonzalez at Kazak for his dedication to have this completed!

See: Bogota esta empapelada and this announcement for more information.

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Deux nouveaux postes chez Canonical

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Ce matin lors de l’appel conférence hebdomadaire j’ai su que les postes pour administrateur système et « packageur » avaient été annoncés sur le site d’Ubuntu. Canonical cherche des gens pour combler ces postes à ses bureaux de Montréal. Je poste les annonces en anglais car je n’ai pas encore les traductions, mais je voulais que ça sorte rapidement 🙂

  1. Operational System Administrator
    Posting Date & id: June 2007 SYSADMIN
    Reports to: Information Systems Manager
    Job Location: Montreal
    Job Summary: Part of the systems administration team for Canonical Ltd, with specific responsibility for all on-site systems administration related tasks in Canonical’s Montreal office.
  2. ISV/Partner Packaging Specialist
    Posting Date & id: May 2007 ISV/PPS
    Reports to: Support Manager
    Job Location: Montréal, QC, although telecommuting could be considered for very strong candidates.
    Job Summary: Work as a member of the Canonical Global Support and Services team to get applications into the Ubuntu Commercial Repository.

    3. How to apply

    Please send a cover letter and CV with references to hr@canonical.com. Please indicate in your submission the role for which you are applying. We prefer to receive applications and CVs/Resumes in either PDF or plain text format.