As many people know, some months ago Evan Dandrea was asking for LoCo Teams support of the creation of one dedicated site on Stack Exchange Network for Ubuntu [1].

Ubuntu Colombia was making some testing of one similar platform called Shapado 4 months ago. This platform besides giving us similar functionalities, have many improvements on communication with other (social) networks, translations in many languages and many others [2]. And the big advantage over Stack Exchange Network is that it's Free Software under GNU Affero General Public License (same of Launchpad.net).

They are really open to suggestions, and also have many developers compromised with Free Software, Ubuntu and communities. Their development is under Ruby on Rails, Linux and MongoDB. Example:http://ubuntu.shapado.com/questions/what-would-be-a-good-openid-icon-for-launchpad

We, Ubuntu Colombia, believe that Free Software must be used and supported by us, a big community helping a big software. And, additional to this support, we reject the wish of support to the proprietary software used on Stack Networks.

We and the Shapado community are waiting their LoCo Teams supports to raise Shapado as THE free and bigger website of questions and answers on the Internet.

Hey follows, we don't have any excuse to not use Shapado and give some love to the free software community, we are waiting for you.

Just use it!!

http://ubuntu.shapado.com

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-July/004683.html

[2] http://shapado.com/questions/how-does-shapado-compare-to-stackexchange

One of our communuty members, Fernando (you can check his blog at http://blog.beford.org ) post some weeks ago this small javascript that could be pretty useful for other LoCoTeams. I' m transcribing his post here for public consumption.

This little javascript obtains a sorted list of members from any Launchpad Team by karma. It's using the Launchpad API and Mochikit

In order to test it you should drag the Karma table link to your favorites bar, then you must go to www.launchpad.net. When you're there just clic on the Karma table favorite and it would ask you for the team you want to check and voíla.. you'd get your favorite's team karma sorted member list.

This is the code so everyone can take a look on it:

javascript:(
function(){
var d = loadJSONDoc('/api/devel/~'+prompt('Team name:', 'ubuntu-co')+'/members?ws.size=200');
d.addBoth(function (res) {
res.entries.sort(function(a,b) { return parseFloat(b.karma) - parseFloat(a.karma) } );
msg = "";
for (i=0;i<res.total_size;i++) {
msg = msg + "\r\n" + '<tr><td>'+(i+1)+'</td>
<td><a href="/~'+res.entries[i].name+'">'+res.entries[i].display_name+'</a></td>
<td>'+res.entries[i].karma+'</td></tr>';
};
document.body.innerHTML="<table class=\"listing\" id=\"activemembers\">
<thead><tr><th>&nbsp;</th><th>Name</th><th>Karma</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>"+msg+"</tbody>
</table>";
});
}
)();

Best regards from Ubuntu Colombia.

For the original post please check http://blog.beford.org/2010/07/30/obtener-lista-de-karma-en-teams-launchpad-net/

Last Monday (July 19th) at the Ubuntu Colombia Council meeting, i've passed the role of Ubuntu Colombia LoCoTeam Contact and Administrator to Andres Mujica. Since February 21st 2008, i was put in charge of Ubuntu Colombia by Fabian Rodríguez when our Community presented itself as Official Comunity at the LoCo Council.

By now, I believe that i fullfilled a complete cycle on my Contact duty for the Ubuntu Colombia community. A lot of goals, plans, proyects and personal objectives were accomplished hand to hand with the Community and now is time for new members of Ubuntu Colombia take the shot for the Contact role, new members with much more time, willingness and dedication to accomplish a lot more things that i could have done until now.

I'm not going away from the Team, I'll be working harder than ever as an active member, supporting all the projects i'm working on within Ubuntu Colombia.

I'm wishing the best of the lucks to Andrés on his new role and a lot of success to become in order to fulfill our LoCo Team goals.

It's important for me to let you all now about our Reapproval wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/TeamReApproval2010, in this wiki all the activities and grow that our community has experienced are shown. And thanks to Colombian community for their support on this.

Ubuntu Colombia For The Win!!!

Today I decided to see how to connect the PlayStation 3 to my Ubuntu, to share multimedia content such as photo galleries, Music and Video. For this  I found MediaTomb a UPnP media server and open source (GPL) administered like a  web interface, fast, intuitive and friendly. I't allow us to transmit multimedia digital media through our local network to various UPnP devices within the latter PS3, but for this we must enable some parameters that I explain below

First, you have to download the MediaTomb from the official website or from Ubuntu repositories, as it is available. :D You can download fromt Synaptic, the Ubuntu Software Center or APT.

sudo apt-get install mediatomb

Once installed, we have to configure the network interface through which our computer MediaTomb going to work, we do this by editing the file /etc/default/mediatomb changing the line INTERFACE = "" by INTERFACE = "networkInterface"

sudo vim /etc/default/mediatomb

INTERFACE="eth0"

Now, to work withe the  console PlayStation 3 edit the file /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

sudo vim /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

In this file, under <server> add network interface:

<interface>eth0</interface>

In the same file, find <protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "no" --> And change it for yes, it is as follow:

<protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "yes" -->

Finally enabling the divx for the PS3 on the line

<!-- Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support -->

<!– <map from=”avi” to=”video/divx”/> –>

And leave it like this:

<!-- Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support -->

<map from="avi" to="video/divx"/>

Save and now swe have to start de MediaTomb daemon

sudo /etc/init.d/mediatomb start

Lunch the MediaTomb on the console and copy the last one line; the ip addres and the port (ip:port) and entered in our web browser

hollman@saboteur:~$ mediatomb &

As LoCo contact Team Ubuntu Colombia I can request, after each release a Mix of CD's, To Lucid the Mix of CD's has 250 Ubuntu's, 50 Kubuntu's and 50 Server; Well Ubuntu Colombia just got his Mix Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS :). I leave you some pictures of the new art. - Canonical Thanks!

April 24th the FLISOL (Free Software Installation Latinamerica Festival) was held. As Ubuntu Colombian Community we were participants por present organizing and participating in several cities around our Country. Bogotá, Ibague, Villavicencio and Cucuta, were we held multiple activities.

Bogotá:

We had a Community Stand where about 200th Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, Server and Kubuntu CDs, pens, and a lot of merchandising were given away . Also we give some quick and small talks about what is Ubuntu about, what kind of support the new user could find after FLISOL and how this support is given by any member of our community.

At the installation area several team members worked hard installing Ubuntu to anyone who wanted get the freedom on their machines. From about 107 computers installed at the event, 64 corresponded to Ubuntu. Also about 100 Ubuntu 10.04 Beta cds were given away at the installation area.

Villavicencio:

The "Llanos Orientales" (Oriental plains) wants to be free, the big day for FLISOL call many sectors like Universities (unillanos, unimeta, uniminuto and cooperativa), schools, SENA from Villavicencio and Yopal and companies like the Meta Power Authority and several NGO's. About 204 people attended the conferences, the workshops were visited by 118 people.

24 of 41 scheduled installs were made (there would be a second installation day), with 14 Ubuntu, 3 Debian, 3 Open Suse, 1 Ubuntu UNR, 1 Kubuntu, 1 Mandriva and 1 Red Star.

It's notable the neighboring municipalities assistance, 4 installs for Yopal (about an eight -8- hours trip to Villavicencio), 2 installs for El Castillo and Vista Hermosa. about 200 cd were given away. Also Yopal would held a FLISOL event the coming year.

(at this time we're still missing the data from Ibague and Cucuta, but everything was great there too!!)

So we're very excited with this event and looking forward for more to come.

enjoy the pictures!!!!

• http://picasaweb.google.com/hollman.enciso/FlisolBogotaColombia2010#
• http://picasaweb.google.com/106774085262122167231/Flisol2010#
• http://picasaweb.google.com/ruri.himura/Flisol2010Bogota#
   

He was released the book written by the Ubuntu community Manual Team - Getting Started With 10.04, which is aimed at all people who are starting in this new world of Ubuntu, the project was initiated in 2009 by Benjamin Humphrey, who saw the need for oriented documentation, updated and consistent for the Ubuntu operating system. It was released under Creative Commons 3.0 license. We can download it, copy it and share it freely to our community.

I take the post inviting them to do part of this great project which is formed by the community and everyone is invited and welcome to collaborate and improve this project. There are many ways to participate either as authors, editors, translators, designers, testers or developers if you're interested visit the official page and follow the steps.

We are still waiting anxiously to be released version in Spanish and other languages, so do not forget this part of the project and translate our native language.

You can download the manual for the moment only available in English from the official website or from the following link.

Yesterday took place the XI edition of FLISoL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre), which was for me a total success, we have good attendance (about 3000 people) in the different areas of installation, conferences, workshops and lectures.

Were installed / freedom 107 machines:

To redeem the Free Culture, organized by the Fundación Casa del bosque, who gathered around 70 communities  of Bogotá where they could talk, discuss and learn from them all.

Finally thanks to all communities who did participate such as Ubuntu Colombia, Mozilla Colombia, Mandriva Colombia, Zoociedad.org, Fundación Casa del bosque, Correlibre, Sugar Labs Colombia and all the people who made this possible iand worked in the diffrents areas like logistics and other.

Flisol Bogota, Colombia 2010

Announcing the Ubuntu Open Week. What is Ubuntu Open Week? It is a week where there are several conferences/discussions/talks around this distribution, these talks will be available from Monday May 3 to Friday 7 from IRC in the channel #ubuntu-classroom and # ubuntu-classroomchat-chat-chat server freenode IRC irc.freenode.net.

This is an excellent opportunity to know a little more of this distribution around the community and developer. this talks are given by people from the Ubuntu community around the world, which cover some topics for the new guys who are taking the first steps as those who already have some knowledge and experience. All are cordially invited to do some of these talks and also extend the invitation to those want to give his talk, the postulate on the event wiki.

Remember to be held in different simultaneous conversations in English and Spanish,. The information from the talks in Spanish are on the wiki.