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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Yeah we had like THE earthquake over here. Thanks $deity Lima was not that affected, Ica on the other hand had a lot of disasters.

Cellphones and phonelines died for almost 3 or 4 hours after the Earthquake. Luckily I was able to communicate with my family via SMS. I’ll need to update their communication skills so they can use Internet which was the ONLY service that was still working. Police even had to use a local radio station to broadcast some info to the policemen.

Right now it’s 4:30 AM, no idea if I’m watching live coverage on local TV (maybe it’s just a rerun of earlier coverage). But hell lot of chaos. 155 people have passed away and 1300 is the estimate of injured ones.

You can follow up the event on Wikinews. Also some info is being archived on the Wikipedia article about the Earthquake. Also El Comercio, the biggest local newspaper, has a lot of coverage on its website (that looks pretty cool btw).

And yes, it was on GNOME’s 10th birthday :). Well, time to get some sleep but before I’ll put some stuff on my survival kit (which, guess what, includes my N800).