On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:04:01AM -0400, Jose Parrella wrote: >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:59:10AM +0200, Enrico Zini escribió: >> >>A little ago I've read the news that Venezuela is going to train 400000 >>people on basic Linux use. Four hundred thousands. YOU ROCK! >> >>The courses were due to start on June, 12th, which is two days ago. >> >>I'm very curious about it. How are they going? > >There are actually three programs right now. The first one is the Free >Software Academy, which is not so big (aimed to groups of 50 people per >month or so) but is getting stronger in the countryside. The second is >the Free Software Laboratory which is an opportunity for everyone in the >Free Software community to participate in the process of migrating the >Public Administration. The third one is the Technological Literacy >program, aiming to teach people how to use a computer using GNU/Linux >(specifically Gnome). You said 400K people will be trained, politicians >said 2 million people will [1] (in spanish). > >About the first program, it's working for almost a year now. It has >local chapters in several cities and the curricula was studied by the >Pedagogic University for compliance with teaching standards. The >Laboratory is now approved by decree, yet still is not clear how the >community will participate on that. The Literacy program has not >practically initiated, but they're migrating the remaining Internet >cafes to GNU/Linux so they have the infrastructure to go on with the >program. > >On June 11th., the director of the IT National Center said that the >"migration process should choose between the thoroughly tested and >renowned Red Hat, SuSe and Debian", which is an advance considering that >the previous director of his office made a statement promoting Red Hat >as the distribution of choice. He was fired right the way. Yesterday, at >the Department of Science and Technology, I found out that the whole IT >Office is using Debian. From security people to the big bosses, everyone >there uses Debian. They even have their own mirror, and everyone is >Synaptic-ing packages without yelling about lack of support :) > >Jose > >[1] >http://lubrio.blogspot.com/2006/06/plan-de-alfabetizacin-tecnolgica-del.html Sending this to -project. Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal
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