Hi Folks, here is a final details for the FLOSS speaker on May 27th (and a laptop installfest). cheers, Kev(of cfsg) ----- Forwarded message from jays@panix.com ----- Subject: [CFSG-forum] Saturday 27 May 2006 Special Meeting: Antonio Perpinan of Codigo Libre on Organizing for Free Software There will be two free software meetings on Saturday 27 May 2006 at 49 East Houston Street, on the Island of the Manahattoes. The first meeting starts at 3:00 pm and is a Laptop Install Fest. We will attempt to put as many free operating systems as we can on as many laptops as we can. This informal install fest is only for laptops; we will not attempt any installations on non-portable devices. There will also be Lispers at this meeting, and if you want help starting out in Lisp, including Scheme and Elisp, come to this meeting. The second meeting starts at 6:00 pm. Antonio Perpinan, head of Codigo Libre of the Dominican Republic, will speak. http://www.codigolibre.org The nearest subway stop is Broadway-Lafayette. B, D, F, and V trains stop at Broadway-Lafayette. The downtown 6 train stops at the station, but the uptown 6 train does not. This meeting is sponsored by LXNY and CFSG. The meeting space has been donated by Anonymous, and we thank Our Anonymous Host! http://www.cfsg.org Codigo Libre has done extraordinary things: 1. Codigo Libre has over one thousand members. 2. Codigo Libre has helped migrate all sorts of public and private institutions to free software, including banks such as BHD, Popular, and Reservas (the State Bank), the biggest supermarket chain, el POLA, which runs entirely on Red Hat, and the largest Dominican mining company, Cemento Cibao, which runs Fedora. They are now migrating the La Salle high schools, starting in the City of Santiago, where they will teach using Ubuntu. The State has 9 schools spread throughout the capital city of Santo Domingo, where they are planning the migration of over 525 PCs to SuSE GNU/Linux. Codigo Libre has taught more than 15,000 teachers at the Board of Education to use GNU/Linux, as well as college professors at the Public University. 3. Codigo Libre does on-site paid training, free counseling and support for businesses, including free investigation to solve any problems related to integrating free software in the workplace. 4. Codigo Libre prints and publishes their own books. They give courses ranging from from beginner's courses to advanced courses in telephony, programming, and databases. They have developed their own Certification with manuals, practices, courses, and certification exams, covering fundamentals, administration, networking, and security. 5. Codigo Libre are today working in the Dominican Senate to establish a National Law for Free Software, and to have the Senate approve a Committee of Free Software to guide public institutions in migrating to free software. 6. The UNICDA university offers a graduate level course on GNU/Linux technology administration. The Dominican Republic is embarked on a two million dollar project to teach 25,000 kids GNU/Linux. Codigo Libre is central to these efforts. 7. Codigo Libre has two bases, a 375 square foot location in Santo Domingo with 4 classrooms and 40 PCs running Ubuntu, routers, wireless internet access, a large meeting room for 50 people, where groups meet every day on diverse subjects: GNU/Linux administration, Asterisk, c/c++/java, PHP, DBMSes, etc.; and a 1,500 square foot location in Santiago with 4 air conditioned classrooms and an event hall for 200 people, 24 PCs, blackboards, etc. 8. Codigo Libre offers various forms of membership. Members get discounts, participate in courses, and give and get help in job searches. Antonio Perpinan has been at the head of these advances since 1998 when Codigo Libre was founded. Many groups have tried to do some of what Codigo Libre has actually done. This meeting is a chance to hear about how these things get done, and where free software stands today in the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries. We will eat and drink after the meeting. We do not yet know where. Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ CFSG-forum mailing list CFSG-forum@cfsg.org http://cfsg.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfsg-forum ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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