Maybe you have heard, that the next LGM – Libre Graphics Meeting, will be held in Vienna from May 2nd to Saturday May 5th That is the place where all the great and amazing FOSS artists and developers of the tools they use come together.

For a lot of years, I have followed this event online.There was always amazing projects, ideas on this event. I live on the other side of the world and is really hard for me to attend. Flights from South America to Europe are really expensive. My crazy… Crazy friend Sirko (gnokii) created a donations page, where people can make donations.

If I have helped you once, so maybe you can help me this time. :)

Maybe you have heard, that the next LGM – Libre Graphics Meeting, will be held in Vienna from May 2nd to Saturday May 5th That is the place where all the great and amazing FOSS artists and developers of the tools they use come together.

For a lot of years, I have followed this event online.There was always amazing projects, ideas on this event. I live on the other side of the world and is really hard for me to attend. Flights from South America to Europe are really expensive. My crazy… Crazy friend Sirko (gnokii) created a donations page, where people can make donations.

If I have helped you once, so maybe you can help me this time. :)

One of the things that I *had* to buy at USA was a power supply since my desktop computer was always shutting down when I plug anything (I couldn’t even use my DVD :/ )

Even if this wasn’t the one I was thinking on buy, was the best option. We went to so many stores that I was really driving crazy, however, worth it. I had saves for this since last year, because if you think on buy this kind of electronics in my country is completely insane (prices are +500%).

Now I can say that I have a *monster* at home where I can start to render my blender videos again and do all the crazy stuff I like to do :D. Sadly, now I have to wait a bit more to use it since where I’m living now only has enough space for me to… sleep… but at least I have weekends to play with it at my grandparents home :D

I think this 4 words can resume pretty much what’s FOSS about. A couple of months ago I had a small shutdown from linux communities since *real life* was going on, and with some friends help, I tried to figure out *why* we do what we do. Talking and giving a meaning to every action we take on this online world this 4 words got to resume everything. Why?:

Learn:

There is NO WAY you can be on ANY FOSS community or group if you are not willing to learn. Life itself is a learning journey that will take you to unknown places where you might get amazed. Some people join FOSS communities thinking that know everything, but soon they realize that there is no way you can know everything, and you will always learn something new, just need to keep your mind open :)

I think this 4 words can resume pretty much what’s FOSS about. A couple of months ago I had a small shutdown from linux communities since *real life* was going on, and with some friends help, I tried to figure out *why* we do what we do. Talking and giving a meaning to every action we take on this online world this 4 words got to resume everything. Why?:

Learn:

There is NO WAY you can be on ANY FOSS community or group if you are not willing to learn. Life itself is a learning journey that will take you to unknown places where you might get amazed. Some people join FOSS communities thinking that know everything, but soon they realize that there is no way you can know everything, and you will always learn something new, just need to keep your mind open :)

Those things that made FUDcon Blacksburg unique – Fun? Come and join us at http://fedoraproject.org :)

Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOsE5TGeU0

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I will try to make a weekly post about how is FUDcon planning going on. This will be the first time I organize an event where people from different countries and that’s pretty cool.

For those of you who don’t know what is FUDcon, is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc. FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world so if you’re near, come by :)

We are internet addicts and there is no way we can hide it. We live from 10 to 20 hours using our gadgets and jet mad when others ask us to stop and “enjoy the real world for a while”… This is OUR real world, why can’t people understand it?

Our social live, or some part of it, happens inside a screen, and we are uses to help because we learn from someone who also took part of his/her time to show us how special Fedora community is.

But every fairy tale has his dark side… What happens when people doesn’t understand that is not a requirement to be 24/7 waiting for someone who needs help? Problem is’t them… We are!

I can only use my experience as base for this: I have been using Fedora for about 5 years now and i was one of those who spend hours reading what people had to say because “there was a big chance to learn something from them”.

FUDcon is always about knowledge and fun, and this is not the exception. We all arrive in time (I think for the first time) to the *late opening* and had a really interesting list of barcamp session proposals so people could vote. After that our higly recognized lord of the zombies and aliens from Fedoraland, Jared Smith, gave his talk. I must say that after saw Russell photographic gear I must say “Yes master”.

We had so many interesting topics that we all the time look people running through the hallways trying to make it in time for other talks. Is kind of amazing to see people interested in learn and teach as much as possible just making FUDcon a special moment for everyone involved.

El LibreBus es un proyecto en el que se recorren varios países de la región centroamericana (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala) y se complementa con espacios de participación en Internet… Una veintena de personas pasajeras de diversas nacionalidades y distintas habilidades se unen por un tema común: la Cultura Libre y la promoción del conocimiento para todos. El LibreBus es una invitación al diálogo y al encuentro, a la creación de redes regionales para el fortalecimiento de una cultura centroamericana compartida.

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Is really cool to see how FUDCon Margarita is taking shape. I always love to see how an idea become something real and how people envolved work as a team to acomplish each goal. Fedora is the kind of place where you want to hang out if you want to be part of something :)

This week was full of tasks. We had our first meeting, which was really productive, and we delegate most of the tasks. That’s the way to work as team, however, we need to be more open and inform the rest of what we are doing, so our task don’t collide. We separate task this way: Travels – Location – Marketing.

El cáncer es una de las principales causas de mortalidad en todo el mundo. La OMS calcula que, de no mediar intervención alguna, 84 millones de personas morirán de cáncer entre 2005 y 2015. Cada 4 de febrero, la OMS apoya a la Unión Internacional contra el Cáncer y promueve medios para aliviar la carga mundial de la enfermedad. La prevención del cáncer y el aumento de la calidad de vida de los enfermos son temas recurrentes.

Ayer salió la primera beta pública del navegador de Google Chrome para los dispositivos con Android 4.0, y decidí probarlo en mi Nexus S porque el navegador por defecto de Ice Cream Sandwish no me gusta y Firefox Mobile es pesado por los momentos.

Primera impresión
Una vez instalado es que abre a la misma velocidad del navegador integrado, pero la apariencia es mas simple y se conecta a mi cuenta de google para sincronizar los marcadores, datos formularios y pestañas abiertas en otros dispositivos. Como nunca uso Chrome para el día a día, no sincronizó nada. Lo primero que hice fue abrir la versión de Twitter para dispositivos móviles, abrió mas rápido que el navegador oficial y el codigo javascript me pareció que se ejecutó mas fluido, luego abrí facebook para móviles y observé lo bien que se manejan las pestañas en Chrome para Android.

Is really common that someone ask you about your Fedora Profile. Even if such thing doesn’t exist properly we have our Users Wiki pages that we are *supposed* to fill so people can contact us, know a bit more about what we do on fedora and any related comment we want to add (schedules, events, meetings, projects, etc).

Even if I know is a really boring thing to do, let me encourage you to take some minutes to explain why you need to do it:

If you want something, people need to know who the hell are you!

If you’re interested on request media, swags, attend to events or anything… be sure that people will ask who are you? what have you done so far? what are you doing now? and anything that they can come up with. We are not asking you to write when do you brush your hair and how many sock wear daily, but a couple of details about things you like in FOSS and project you’re in can help.