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FLISOL: Simultaneous Install Fest in 100+ Cities

Posted by timothy on from the hands-across-latin-america dept.

Azul writes "The FLISOL, Latin American Free Software Install Fest (English), is an install fest we are holding simultaneously across many Latin American countries. In total, we are organizing events in around 15 countries and over 100 cities. You can contact us by writing to flisol@bachue.com. The events are going to be held in around two weeks, the 2nd of April."

13 comments

  1. Slogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bring your Lysol to FLISOL.

    With a room full of smelly geeks, you'll need it

  2. geeks show the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they all laughed at us when we said there was money to be made in programming, they laughed at us when we said open source was the way, they pointed and sneered, joking about the pale-faced spotty kid with glasses, they said we didn't know how to have fun, well, who's laughing now?

    Ah.

    1. Re:geeks show the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      who's laughing now?

      Uh, the third world countries getting a free OS for free that they don't have to pay for because it's free?

    2. Re:geeks show the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "getting a free OS for free that they don't have to pay for because it's free"

      Do people talk to you like that? Are you a retard or what?

  3. Bandwidth? by Sentry21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In total, we are organizing events in around 15 countries and over 100 cities.

    Ouch... I'd hate to be their local Debian mirror.

  4. Nice of them to put the emphasis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    in the correct place when they say Latinamerican... :)

  5. Does my city qualify? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I live in Texas...depending on who you ask it might qualify as latin american... ;)

    For some of us, we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us :)

  6. Next year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It would be nice to make it worldwide next year. I think it's a very good thing for free software. It is time to stop converting the converted and move to people who doesn't know about free software.

    Martin

  7. Countries working together thanks to free software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't this great? A lot of this countries use to have wars between their neighboards.

    Today thanks to the Internet and FreeSoftware we are working together for a better feature. It is a better feature becuase we are working together and becoming friends with people of the other countries.

    Also it is a better feature because with free software we can have a legal software free of virus and free of spyware. Also we can use it without paying stupid amount of money or breaking the law with piracy.

    A better feature because with free software not all the money would go to a few big companies in a few countries. Free Software can be modify by anyone and that would help us to research. Give the money to the people of your country for their work and not only to mr billy.

    Greetings,

    Rafael

  8. Finally... by andreyw · · Score: 1

    Someone came up with a way to hose an apt repository for good....

  9. Brazil, mainly by chochos · · Score: 1

    So, Brazil is still the country most concerned with Open Source, with 30 cities hosting this event.

    I wish Mexico was more involved with this, but I guess none of us have the time for this kind of thing. And it looks like there are no sponsors for any city in Mexico; the organizers all seem to be universities or research organizations.

    --
    Go hug some trees.
    1. Re:Brazil, mainly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't need too much time... You can do it with your LUG as we do in some cities in Argentina. In our city we don't have sponsors either.

  10. Front page? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't this as important to appear in front page? If FLISOL goes all right maybe we can do it worldwide, I don't see much interest from /. people so far...

    It's a lot of people/cities!