Ubuntu Nicaragua

Welcome to the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team Approval Application!

Key details

• Team Leader: José Ernesto Dávila

• Team Contact: Marcelo Gutierrez

• Website: Official site | Overview of all sites

• Launchpad: Ubuntu Nicaragua team | Official members

Stats

• Mailing list subscriptions: 418 (+388; up 1393% since approval)

• Launchpad members: 238 (+208; up 793% since approval)

• Official Ubuntu-ni members: 32 (13.45% of total)

• Official Ubuntu members: 3 (1.26% of total)

Structure and Governance

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Activities

Events

For detailed information about our events, visit the Events page.

Projects

For detailed information about our projects, visit the Projects page.

Team Reports

Ubuntu Nicaragua and...

...Education

Elementary education

With the Guardabarranco Educational Project, the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team joins forces with the broader FOSS community in order to help to improve the IT infrastructure in the Nicaraguan public school system.

We've also participated in several activities and initiatives with the Ministry of Education, helping them to find ways to introduce FOSS in the schools.

In addition, some members of the community participated in a Python workshop for developing educational software for the Sugar desktop. Hopefully, some of these application will find their way into Ubuntu as well.

Higher education

The major Nicaraguan universities have slowly turned into a GNU/Linux/FOSS stronghold. At least six new LUGs has been formed in the last years at Nicaraguan campus. And of course, many of them have a strong Ubuntu user base. We, as a LoCo Team, collaborate with these groups on a regular basis.

The relationship between the Ubuntu Nicaragua team and the authorities of these universities can only be described as excellent. The doors are always open, and we have easy access to campus facilities and equipment for our events.

...Government

Ubuntu is a reality today in the public sector. The local Government acknowledges and seeks the expertise of our community members. Several members from the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team are currently working deploying and giving support to a large number of Ubuntu workstations and servers, and training Ubuntu desktop users in major Nicaraguan public institutions.

...Enterprises

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...Non-profits

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...Free Culture

Over the last three years, the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team has been very working hard to promote free culture ideals in our country. We've been doing some talks at events about free culture and licensing and providing guidance to Nicaraguan artist that wishes to release their works under free licenses.

We've also organised the 'Free your Mouse' concerts two years in a row. The last of these concerts was recorded and a double CD released under a CC license.

Our community podcast also promotes free culture including interviews with artists and playing songs from musicians with free cultural works.

...Communication and Media

We have been pretty successful in promoting Ubuntu and FOSS in local media. A lot of articles has been written in local newspaper, including a whole special edition for the SFD 2009, published in a Nicaraguan newspaper. We have also participated in all the major local TV channels (both terrestrial and cable system) and popular radio stations.

One of the highlights was the co-production of 11 weekly TV-shows with Channel 2 Nicaragua in 2008.

For more information about our participation in local media, visit the Press page.

...the Local FOSS Community

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The Future

Roadmap

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