That’s what the sign says in this picture:
Apparently Ubuntu-co rocked at Campus Party Colombia. If that picture is any indication, I think there’s more to come 🙂
Well done to all that were there!
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Ubuntu now available to Dell customers in Canada and Latin America
It’s as if these news were specially written for me. I am originally from Colombia and have been living in Montreal, Canada for the past ~20 years.
Dell announced on their blog that their systems will now be available in Canada and Latin America (including Colombia initially!).
Check the original announcement on their english blog, as well as the spanish annoucement for Latin America. It’s nice to see they have a blog for hispanic customers.
In Canada, visit http://dell.ca/open . Phone orders only in Latin America for now.
What a week!!!
Venezuela Launches Sale of Bolivarian Computers – and they run Ubuntu too :)
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.
Other related resources:
- Free Software Foundation Latin America
- Ututo, a 100% free Gnu/Linux distribution from Argentina
- Success for free software in LatinAmerica
- Free Software Carnival: Latin America Takes to FLOSS in a Big Way
- Debian in Venezuela, International Projects and Debian User Groups.
- Free Software conference in Bolivia (seemingly the only free software event there since 2005)
(old but surprisingly accurate)
Colombian Team rocking at FLISOL 2007
As you may have noticed, the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre or Free/Open Source Software Latin-American Installfest is taking over the place this coming Saturday April 28th. Many people will be organizing and attending local events in Colombia.
I have been helping the Ubuntu Colombian LoCo Team becoming an official team (yes, from Montreal!) and I think it’s coming along nicely. There’s been very active discussions on the mailing list about the ethics vs. convenience of supporting and providing proprietary drivers support, different support issues, and of course… where to get Ubuntu labels and the obligatory voting to choose a logo!
Some Colombian Team members like Elkin Botero will be traveling quite a bit to talk about Ubuntu and spread some love, in fact the team will be present in 6 cities no less! Check the Colombian Team Flisol 2007 wiki page for all the details.
I wish all the participants across Latin America a good, friendly & productive day !
The Codebreakers transcript released – help wanted for subtitles
Remember The Codebreakers: A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development ? Well, after many months and a few emails nicely asking for it, the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme have sent me their original transcript for the documentary 40 minute version, licensed under a Creative Commons BY licence.
The main purpose for me was to produce subtitles in French, but there’s been interest in the Colibri list for Colombian FLOSS users to do it in spanish too, so I asked again and got the file today. It’s an easy but tedious and long job. We have to first produce an appropriate English subtitles file, then translate it – an dof course test it.
If you want to get the transcript and / or feel like helping producing an English subtitles file, please visit the subtitling project’s wiki page. Pass the word around!
Update: the links had moved, I just corrected them (as of July 12 2007)