SFD Nicaragua 2008

• Our report for the SFD 2007 event can be found here.

• Friends of the SFD-NI 2008

• Workshops & Pre-SFD Activities 2008

• Contact email: sfd-ni_at_linuxtour.org

What is the Software Freedom Day?

The Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of free and open source software (FOSS). The purpose of this celebration is to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in the government, at home and in the businesses - in short, everywhere! Software Freedom International is the non-profit organization that coordinates the SFD event globally, providing support, materials and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize events in their local communities.

The vision is to empower all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent and sustainable.

Objectives

• Celebrate Free Software and the people who make it possible.
• Develop a general understanding of free software and encourage the adoption of free software and open standards.
• Increase equity of access to opportunities through the use of participatory technology.
• Promote a constructive dialogue on rights and responsibilities in the information society.
• Include organizations and individuals who share our vision.
• Being a pragmatic, transparent and accountable organization.

About the organizers

The GNU/Linux Users Group of Nicaragua (GUL-NIC) is a community composed of users, developers and enthusiasts of free software in Nicaragua.

Its main purpose is to promote the use of free technologies that will serve as a basis for the scientific, social and economic development of our country.

GUL-NIC promotes and organizes national and international events related to the Free Software since 2007:

• Linux Tour
• Latin American Free Software Installation Festival (FLISOL)
• Document Freedom Day (DFD)
• Software Freedom Day (SFD)
• Ubuntu Barcamp

SIMAS promotes harmony between humans and nature through the Sustainable Agriculture.

SIMAS also promotes the free availability, sustainability and socialization of technology and knowledge. For SIMAS, Free Software represents a socially just, economically sustainable and technologically feasible alternative. SIMAS actively supports its use and promotes activities such as "The Software Freedom Day"

Contact email: simas@simas.org.ni

Time and Place

Place : Universidad Centroamericana - UCA.

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Conferences

Place: Aula Magna - UCA

Free Software Introduction

Speaker: Rodrigo Rodríguez, Nicaragua.

Research Assistant at the Communication Research Center. Infieri BA in Sociology and Social Communication. Active Member of the Users Group GNU / Linux in Nicaragua

Paper anecdotal, based on the experiences Lenin and Roberto, discovered the story, concepts and basics to get started in the free software world.

Free Alternatives

Speaker: Karl Yaroslavl Picado Castillo, Nicaragua.

Third Grade Student at the Institute "Sendero Divino". Ubuntu Linux user. He has given lectures at UNAN and ISI. Lecturer at the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival 2008.

How to migrate SMEs

Speaker: Carlos Ortiz Gutiérrez, Nicaragua.

Technical of infrastructure in the Directorate of Information of the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security. Computer Engineer. Linux System Administrator and an active member of the Users Group GNU / Linux in Nicaragua.

Strategies for implementing Free Software in Small and Mid size Enterprises: early decisions, planning, implementation and evaluation. Successful cases.

Web 2.0 and its evolution

Speaker: Renata Rodrí­gues, Brasil.

Vice Chancellor Academic Committee and Coordinator of ICT de la Universidad Centroamericana. Masters in education and Curriculum Specialist. Develops work in fields of education and information technology. Participation of political use of Free Software and Policies publishing in the Universidad Centroamericana.

Web 2.0 is a relatively new concept in the Internet world and brings with it implications in relation to services, media and role of users. The conference will present the main features of the Web 2.0, its use in various fields productive, educational and social. Proposes, to finish, a reflection on the challenges make use of new tools and services provided to us.

Free Software in Education

Speaker: Edgar Guzmán, Guatemala.

Courses in the school's career expert in counter diversified. Developer, promote and advocate of free software. Work with free technologies for incorporation in education and thus reduce the digital divide in countries with few resources.

Importance of using free applications in the education sector in our countries, some of the projects of high importance globally who are using free software and achievements.

Free Games

Speaker: Rafael Antonio Márquez Castro, Nicaragua.

Programmer in Software AG S.A. Infieri Systems Engineer. Coordinator of the Fedora Nicaragua User Group and Ambassador of the Fedora Project in Nicaragua.

Free alternatives must be exposed in games, showing some of the most common games available on Fedora games. The object is to remove the false idea that there are no good games on Linux.

Releasing Almidón

Expositor: Javier Wilson Vasquez, Perú.

Technical Manager and Owners Güegüe Communications. Infieri Degree in Computing. Developer of plugins for Squirrelmail, participation in the implementation of Julius. Developer of Almidón.

In early 2008, Güegüe Communications released Almidón as GPL. Almidón is a rapid development platform for the web. It will expose the motives for the release, experience and results.

WorkShops

Place: Laboratories - UCA

Registration is required in order to attend to the workshops. Please register at http://registro.linuxtour.org

How to create a website in 5 minutes

Express yourself! Create a website using Wordpress carries less than what you can by reading this line. Jose Ernesto Dávila is a graduate of Bachelor of Computing at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua - León, an official member and co-founder of the Nicaraguan Ubuntu LoCo Team.

Free Astronomy with Stellarium

Give your first steps into the world of amateur astronomers across the Stellarium, a software practical and interesting that you've never met the night sky in Nicaragua and begin a journey through the Solar System planets and beyond.

July Vannini is Secretary of the Nicaraguan Amateur Astronomers "Carl Sagan" (ANASA) and Coordinator for Nicaragua by the [Section http://www.liada.net/ support educational and communications of the Astronomical League Iberoamerican Astronomy] (SEDA/LIADA).

Free software in the social communication

Games

Place: Xavier Gorostiaga Auditorium - UCA

Urban Terror

Urban Terror is a FPS game of strategy in real time the purest style of counter strike but with much better graphics engine used by the quake, and where we can create tactics to defeat our opponents. Read more.....

Frets on fire

Frets on Fire (abbreviated 'FoF') is a Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo in which players use the keyboard to play along with on-screen musical notes to complete a songFrets on Fire was the winner of the Assembly 2006 game development competition.

Frets on Fire is free and open-source software. The game is written in the Python programming language and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, though the game incorporates other free and open-source code under other licenses. The game's included song files and some internal fonts are proprietary, and their redistribution is not permitted.[1] Read more.....

InstallFest

Place: Computer Laboratories - UCA

Free Software will be installed on computers i386, x86_64.

Distributions that will be installed:

• Debian GNU/Linux Lenny
• Fedora 9
• Fedora Gamer Spin
• Opensuse 11.0
• Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 8.04 LTS

• Mandriva 2008.1 ( Free & One )

Software Freedom Festival

It will be a national musical festival as a post-event.

Place: Promotora Cultural Espacio Sur. Parque El Carmen, 1 block to the north, next to Radio 580.

Time: 9:00 PM.

Ticket: C$ 50

Musical Groups invited

• Milly Majuc
• Q69K
• Dj Revuelta Sonora
• Dj Carbono 14