Sun is shining...: Blog del programa Campus Ambassadors para las universidades argentinas

Cons: there were not many, maybe a couple of questions on the "acquisition subject", plus a few other fundamentalist's comments about "how much OpenSource is Sun, or something like Linux Vs OpenSolaris" ...

photos and videos:

http://blogs.sun.com/Argentina_ambassador/entry/flisol_2009_mar_del_plata
http://www.zcorner.com.ar/2009/lo-que-dejo-flisol-09-en-mdq/

Quilmes and Berazategui, report by Paola Gutierrez

First I went to Berazategui, it was in a club, I got many contacts and business people working in the municipality. All the talks where held in a period of 3 hours,  very general topics, and some technical, more oriented towards questions of how to adapt these technologies to companies that had not yet incorporated. My talk was at 12 and last about half an hour, by what I saw there were people that came to event only to be in my talk because I  noticed that there were more people than in the rest of the talks. Attended by around 100 people, I had a mishap, I have no camera, and didn't get one that day, so asked to take pictures and still could not recover even though I sent them some mails

The organization wrote me an email after the talk, asking if I could participate in one event in October on free software. They also asked if they could be sponsored by Sun.
more info http://berazateguilibre.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8

In quilmes the event was organized with the quilmeslug, a group with great organization, I think, was much more massive event because the university is quite big and looked very busy... had many talks, that's why tech demos weren't crowded as the one in Berazategui. I made contact with teachers from UAI. In my talk, there were about 35 people, but they had a superior technical level, it was more fun, lot of interest in and questions .. I also contact the boys from quilmeslug to keep in touch with talks.
photos here http://galeria.quilmeslug.usla.org.ar/main.php/v/Eventos/flisol/flisol_2009/ .

Personally, I liked it because it was almost one of the first talks that I did as a CA alone, and felt safe, so it was a good experience.

Tucuman, report by Juan Daniel Perez

This year I participated in FLISOL in the city of Tucumán in Argentina. The event was held at Universidad Tecnologica Nacional Facultad Regional Tucumán, where in the morning were the installations of operating systems and free software on Windows, and after midday talks began. Throughout the event were handed out CDs of GNU / Linux, OpenSolaris, and a CD with a collection of different applications (OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, etc).
Approximately 200 people attended the event and in my talk "Introduction to OpenSolaris" there were about 120 attendees, following the same conduct sweepstakes, OpenSolaris and answered questions on various technologies related to Sun and ultimately helped several OpenSolaris guys installing it (in mostly VirtualBox on GNU / Linux).

I think the organization was very good, the level of questions was very good but most did not know OpenSolaris, I was very well received by guys from LUG Tucumán and they helped the OSUM group grow and be more active (in only one day after been created, the group reached more than 100 people). The day after the FLISOL, me along with some members of UNTOSUM went to a school to give talks and install Openoffice, etc.

I made a couple of interviews for local channels where I asked about this new social network OSUM! Would like to thanks Flavia, the osum leader in Tucuman, because she helped a lot to make all this happen

Photos of the event:

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Meeting with some of the kids of UNTOSUM:

Encuentra más fotos como ésta en Open Source University Meetup

Cordoba, report by Elias Andrawos

Was held in the University Department of Computer Science, a branch of the National University of Córdoba.

It is located in the heart of the campus University, luckily we had a beautiful day! It opened the doors at 14.30hs, and in a few minutes it was completely filled. It began with the Install fest, and still people were coming to watch, learn, learn, and so on. Busy until the end hallways, the air conditioning was very useful.

It is estimated that there were 140 attendees.

When I did my talk, I had some problems with audio. (bad luck!) But likewise, people followed me to consult once the talk was over.

The tech demos and talks in the event worked on this topics:

• Free Software
• Electronic voting 
• OpenOffice
  

* PRO: A lot of people interested in with questions.
* PRO: People of all ages, disciplines and specialties.
* PRO: It was a great experience, both organizers and attendees, we were very happy.
* CONS:  In my talk there where some problems with audio. (bad luck!)
*CONS :  We do not have the support of mass media such as radio, television and newspapers.

For now the photos are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/copybin/FLISOL

Neuquen, report by Silvana Canuto Canete

I gave an introductory talk on OpenSolaris, handed out CDs of OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and Netbeans for a couple of kids who used it. There were almost 30 people. All this was the pre event of FLISOL 5 days before the official event in the city of Allen, not to much crowdy, but it was ok.

On April 25, in FLISOL, I had no talks. The organization in Nequen is agains the idea to receive help and cooperate with companies in the promotion of open source, so I just helped installing ubuntu and OpenSolaris, but also took cd's OpenSolaris.

I met there a reporter, who invited me to do an interview for a local newspaper, where I'm gonna talk about OSUM and our open source stack. For my surprise, Flisol event in Neuquen was very small. I do not know how to explain it, but I think this is because o the local LUG attitude. They are agains everything that is not GPL, they simply do not believe that OpenSolaris is free software and do not want a company like Sun that takes people's attention, plus they are very closed in terms of philosophy and do not consider installing open source in FLISOL. Hope with the help of the OSUM group to start opening some minds here in the south of Argentina