Continuing with the report of FLISOL 2009, now comes the time to talk about Colombia & Venezuela.

Colombia

We should first say, that in Colombia there are 3 CA that are doing an awesome job. In only 8 months, with their hard work they got to build +40 groups in OSUM, and a community of +1800 members

Colombia is a country with a fast growing open source community, and FLISOL is the reflex of this.  This year Colombia Enjoyed FLISOL in:

1.Barranquilla.
2.Bogotá.

3.Bucaramanga.
4.Buga.

5.Cali.
6.Cartagena.
7.Cúcuta.
8.Espinal.
9.Girardot.
10.Manizales.
11.Medellín.

12.Montería.
13.Neiva.
14.Palmira.
15.Pasto.
16.Pereira.
17.Popayán.
18.Roldanillo.

19.San Gil.
20.Sogamoso.
21.Tunja.

Our 3 CA ambassadors has done 4 tech demos, in 3 cities, and got more than +900 new contacts to invite them to our OSUM community. In Bigota, the account manager for GHE helped the CA to get a T2000 server to act as the official repository for the install fest, this is a interesting and important way of collaboration in this kind of events, because the open source community start seeing us a truly open source collaborator, and they are finally giving a chance to OpenSolaris and more

BOGOTA, report by Sandra Uribe

Medellin, report by Santiago Builes

On April 25 we did a big step in Medellin-Colombia, I could talk about and show the people many sun technologies, and I was all day at a stand telling the people the advantages of osum and sai, and had the opportunity to do some tech demos, including an OpenSolaris introduction, osum and sai.

The event was a complete success, we just impact more than 2000 people and I wanted to share some pictures with all of you. 

More info here

Venezuela

Venezuela has not been an easy match to play in LATAM. The CA team has changed in the last months, and they have to deal with political and social conflicts all the time, which make lot of noise in the university's activities. Despite all this, our CA are trying to change all this panorama with hard team work

Caracas, report by Daniel Moros

In the Caracas event, I did a presentation called "Introduccion al OpenOffice", a nice introduction to the OpenOffice platform, where I develop all the content of the presentation. I got an assistance of 60 people (the class was small and we couldn't bring more people because of the limited space)

Also, I helped the people from VOSUG (Venezuela Open Solaris User Group) giving a tech demo introducing OpenSolaris to all the FOSS community,  where we had an attendance of 40 people

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Valencia, report by Fernando Fuentes

• We had an assistance of more than 200 people.
  
• We have generated more than 60 new invitations to the osum group. 
• I gave a tech demo about OpenSolaris
  

I would like to highlight:

• The number of people who attended this year FLISOL was higher than in past years (according to information from the organizing committee VaSLibre)   
  
• Many people were interested in OpenSolaris packages to install them on their laptops (10 to 15 people addressed the board asking questions about OS and asking them to schedule more OS talks for next year)
  

Pros

• Proactivity in the FOSS community of Valencia
• With the help of the VaSLibre organization, I can get more access now to other universities in my city. (Thanks to this, I have already done a "NetBeans and PHP" presentation in the IUTEVAL 
• People really liked the giveagays from the Sunwear
  

Cons:

• I didn't receive all the OpenSolaris disc I needed. I tried to record some locally, but I couldn't make a big number of them, and we got out of CD's quickly in the event
• The physical space was relatively small so we were forced to conduct the event, one talk at a time, and so there where not many talks in the agenda.
• We didn't get too much media material, the committe was a small group, and we only took photos in our free time in the event
  

Video of my tech demo

You can find more photos of the event here