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A cable Internet service through a D-Link router. I think its a decent connection for Nicaragua 
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Flash meme speedtest
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Encuentro Centroamericano de Software Libre 2009
Sunday, May 17th, 2009In this moment, we are planning the “Free Software Central American Meeting“, this will be the first edition and the venue will be in Esteli, Nicaragua. What are we planning to do in this event? We are planning to have 4 activities, the first one an exchange of experience between all the FLOSS communities from Central America, the second one, sharing knowledge making workshop, the third one, planning some strategies so we can make regional projects for the benefit of Central America.
The last one, its an programming contest, where the hackers from Central America will be working in a software development that help to all the countries of the region.
This event will be on 17th June to 21th June of 2009, so we have time to organize a great event! I would like to make an special invitation to people who don’t live in Central America to join us and share with the Central American tux family
Also, this is the first time we are going to have all the Ubuntu Central America Communities Leaders, with the presence of Ubuntu LoCo Teams from Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
If you want to join us, just let me know.
EARTH HOUR
Saturday, March 28th, 2009For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.
In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.
VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.
Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.
EARTH HOUR
Ubuntu-ni LoCoTeam attending the LinuxTour Honduras 2009
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009The Nicaraguan Linux User Group will be attending the LinuxTour Honduras 2009. On Friday 20th we will be holding together with the Ubuntu-hn Team the LinuxTour San Pedro Sula at UNITEC.
On Saturday 21th we will be together with the GULTGU (Grupo de Usuari@s de GNU/Linux Tegucigalpa) holding the LinuxTour Tegucigalpa at UNPFM.
We are going to talk about Free Software, what is it, how to help the community, Free Software in education, .NET in Linux using Mono, MTA postfix, OpenOffice.org translation project to Misquito (a native language of the Nicaraguan and Honduras Atlantic coast).
So, if you are in the San Pedro Sula or in Tegucigalpa areas, come and join us at the first LinuxTour in Honduras.
Our second anniversary
Sunday, February 8th, 2009YEAH! Thats right, today the Ubuntu Nicaraguan LoCo Team celebrated the second anniversary!!!! This community began on 2006 with less than 10 members and making conferences for 20 persons.
Two years later we are the biggest and better community in our country, members of the FLISOL, SFD, DFD organization and creator of the LinuxTour.
In this year, the Ubuntu Nicaraguan LoCo Team is working in new projects, supporting to national musicians like Q69K, Milly Majuc and Cecilia Ferrer and the Argonauts, we are helping these groups making their websites and making some talks to them about Creative Commons and benefits that will have if they license theirs work under CC.
I feel very proud to be part of a great community like this one, in this community i have found a lot of friends, we are like a big family and i like that.
Photos from Fioria
The making of the SFD 2008 Nicaragua
Sunday, December 14th, 2008SFD.ni best event worlwide
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Two hours ago the SFI announced the result of the best event competition for the Software Freedom day. As the past year, there was three winners, two of the winners won the past year, the FOSS Nepal Community, the SFD Nicaragua and the new winner is DabaweGNU from Davao City in Philippines.
Once again the Nicaraguan Team won!!!! Im to happy to be part of a great community as the Nicaraguan FOSS community
Congratulations to all the people who makes possible this event 
SFD Nicaragua Multi-lingual
Friday, July 25th, 2008I’m glad to announce that this year and thanks to the members of the Nicaraguan Linux User Group, the Software Freedom Day Nicaragua website will be multilingual, if you want to know about the SFD-NI event, no matter the language you speak. At this moment we have our site in five languages, Spanish (of course! 
), English, German, Swedish and Esperanto.
Coming up are the French and Portuguese translations. We invite you to visit (and bookmark) our site on http://www.linuxtour.org/sfd.
NICALUG @ SFD
Sunday, July 20th, 2008The Software Freedom Day is an world wide annual celebration of Free and Open Source Software. It’s a public educational event, not only to celebrate the virtues of this kind of software, but also to promote the use and benefits to the attendances.
Right now, we’re working in the organization of the SFD-NI 2008 event. We have only 2 months to organize this event, the biggest FOSS event worldwide. It’s our second year working with the SFD Team, the first one was a great experience for us. We won the Best Event Award in the 2007 with Nepal and Beijing and we want to do it again.
If you want to know more about the organization of the event in Nicaragua, you may visit the official website for the Software Freedom Day Nicaragua 2008.
And if you are going to participate in the SFD-NI 2008, we invite you to use the official button in your website, blog and wiki:
< a href="http://www.linuxtour.org/index.php5?title=SFD2008">< img src="http://www.linuxtour.org/images/f/f5/Boton.png">< /a>
Preview:
Linex in Nicaragua
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008As I wrote in another post, here in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Linux User Group is starting to work on an educational project for the public schools.
This particular school, Colegio Guardabarranco, is working since 2005 with 8 computers running Linex 2004. The kids are very happy because they learn a lot of things using this tool, and they are excited about to go to school every day.
The community is going to help the school. Our first task will be to update the OS from Linex 2004 to Linex 2006, install the wikipedia off-line (they don’t have Internet access), and install a local repo.
We will recycle old computers and bring them back to life with LTSP. This way, we’ll build a great computer lab, so more students may be able to learn.
