Diego, el gnomo

(roughly translated from Spanish, check the original press release)

This March 7th and 8th, as part of the involucrate.org project, Lima will host an international FLOSS event that for the first time gets together the real actors of its development.

involucrate+GNOME is the name of this event, and despite the name makes the topic clear, there will be participation of diverse other FLOSS projects.

Thanks to the support by the GNOME Foundation and our generous sponsors, this time we’ll have the presense of developers from GNOME (Chile, Colombia), Dokeos from Belgium and peruvians from projects like Debian, Ubuntu, PHP, FreeBSD, GNOME, among others.

The website has more details about the schedule and the speakers, whom will be eager to share their experience and knowledge about this wonderful experience of contributing to FLOSS. There will be time for BoFs and hack sessions.

The event will have Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Computo y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima - Perú) as its venue.

Participation is free of charge, as long as you register yourself. We are waiting for you!

-involucrate.org Team

About involucrate.org
involucrate.org is a project coordinated by DebianPerú with the goal of promoting the participation of new peruvian contributors and developers in FLOSS projects.

Through the creation of spaces, momentum and ways that facilitate a close experience with the real actors behind FLOSS. We are looking to help create a point of reference, a model, that can lead our country to be noticeable in the worldwide FLOSS map.

It’s also a good excuse to repost the poster:

Thanks to some help from a confessed KDE fan (formerly known as Carlos Wertheman), we got this cool poster for the event!:

In case you like it so much you wanna print it, then you can grab a higher resolution version in Involucrate.org.

More news soon!

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(Travelling GNOME - Lima) In the land of Pisco and Doña Pepa, everything is going fine. The local gnomers are checking out the middle (because they are not the last nor the first) details for their upcoming event “Involucrate+ GNOME”.

So far so good, investors have shown interest in providing financial backup to the event, materializing this offers is expected to happen next week.

Local intertubes media startup Inventarte has already agreed to be one of the media partners for the event recording a live show of their usual video material, interviews and lots of fun expected. “I would even dress up as Konky for the interviews” said Impagable’s Carlos Wertheman. No organization team member wanted to confirm the existence of a Konky costume or plans for getting one, they didn’t deny it either.

Another successful local startup focused on recording events and conferences, Eventos en video decided to once again show their support for free software providing the talk recording service. The conference videos will be freely available in their site for everyone to watch and learn. On exclusive for The Travelling GNOME, Laura Anaya said that the company “has plans to produce a Behind the Conference tv series, a reality show, and this might be the perfect chance for doing it”.

One of the conference organization members confirmed that international speakers are about to confirm their travelling dates and talk topics, he assured that the schedule would be publicily available next week. “They are surely coming, 2 of them already started walking this way” -said Diego Escalante.

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