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

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!!!

El Día del Usuario Ubuntu es un conjunto de charlas que se van a dar en el correr de un día para que los nuevos usuarios de Ubuntu, con conocimientos básicos e intermedios puedan aprender cosas como:

• Como instalar Ubuntu
• Encontrar programas equivalentes en Ubuntu
• Cómo obtener ayuda
• Aprender cosas básicas para utilizar Ubuntu
• Aprender como integrarse y colaborar con la comunidad

Para acceder a las sesiones

Entra a: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-charlas,ubuntu-charlas-chat e Ingresa un nombre que te identifique (en Nickname) y dar clic en conectar (Connect)

Horario

Si quieres saber la hora para tu ciudad, da clic en el enlace con la hora UTC, este te mostrará la hora local en tu ciudad. El Día del Usuario Ubuntu se llevará a cabo el sábado 5 de junio 2010.

El evento se realizará en el canal #ubuntu-charlas en freenode

Todos estan cordialmente invitados a aprender!!!

FLISoL Ibague

The Music Capital - that's how Ibague is known in Colombia – could not stay out from the biggest Free Software Event in Colombia, that's why Ubuntu Colombia and Casli (Ibague Open community for Free Software) joined efforts organizing this event. After four months organizing and setting up everything, the past saturday April 24th the FLISOL event was held at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Several prominent members of the free software movement in Colombia like Wilfredo Pachón, Mayckol Morales (Ubuntu Colombia), Sergio Gonzalez (Debian Colombia), Zoociedad, among others were speakers at the conference.

Before April 23th a frantic activity inviting people, business, universities, schools, even the City Major. A lot of flyers, posters and publicity was made so an event like this couldn't pass unnoticed.

On April 23th Diego Forigua (Ubuntu Colombia), Mayckol Morales (Ubuntu Colombia), Wilfredo Pachón, Microprint, zoociedad, Nestor Santos, travel from Bogota to Ibague (about 4 hours trip) , while Casli made last arrangements for the event.

On April 24th everyone was expecting the FLISOL start, the people start arriving really early in the morning. With the words from Mr Iván Melo Delvasto, Mr Cesar A Gualteros Galeano inviting people to use free software the activities started. About 700 people were present. All of them went to the Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora and OpenSuse stands. Talks, workshops, Urban Terror and Frets on Fire tournaments, even to commercial stands from Comcel, Redecomputo and Urbanetwork.

Around 8 hours of fun and several activities were enjoyed by the community. At the sunset 3 big events started, Cosmos navigation with free software, astronomical observation (validating the previous software navigation) and DJ night, we were able to watch on real time the Moon and Saturn thanks to Urania-Scorpius also some moon dancing with the DJ Maomix music.

This event ends with CASLI as a new, vibrant and powerful community, an example of quality on a very short time, able to put the University and Tolima as a Free Software seed in Colombia.

FLISoL Cucuta

The FLISOL at the Cucuta City, this year showcased a new element, the "marathon" held at a nearby city, Pamplona. This was the first time a FLISOL was arranged with speakers traveling from different cities to talk about free software philosophy and free culture, it's important to notice the effort from Xavier Araque, who came from San Cristobal - Venezuela and Katherine Cancelado from Bucaramanga, accepting the invitation.

A massive assistance with more than 200th people, Orlando Rios from the SENA helped with the locations for talks, works