San Marcos University Ubuntu Talks

July 12th .- Ubuntu Peru was invited to direct talks about Ubuntu in the System and Informatic Engeniering Faculty of San Marcos University. Nicolas Valcarcel (nxvl) talked about Ubuntu’s Release process and Learning from FLOSS. Michael Garrido (xander21c) talked about Ubuntu Peru : the comunity and Ubuntu and the commnad line.

pictures courtesy of Luis del Campo and San Marcos Students.

more pictures here

About San Marcos University

San Marcos University is the first university founded in America by the Spanish in may 12 1551. San Marcos is part of Peruvian history and really important because during the Independence period was one of the enlightenment spots in the region.

Also many of the most important Peruvian history characters like José María Arguedas (writer), Jorge Basadre (historian) among others studied in San Marcos

Get your firefox3 download day certificate :)

Virtually walking across the web i found that you can get a pdf certificate of your contribution to the firefox3 download day here a nice and pretty detail

Welcome Ghanima :) - My Own, precious… Notebook

On last friday, finally a got to buy a notebook (laptop) I call it Ghanima (from Frank Herbert’s Dune Novel) [1]

She is a Compaq Presario F754

Specs:

• AMD Semprom 3600+
• 1Gb RAM
• 120Gb HD
• Nvidia Graphics
• Integrated Webcam
• Black Elegant Case
• No Windows Vista sticker on it, from factory

The Salesman also included a Logitech V220 Cordless mouse , 4Gb Kingston flash drive and a Backpak for it.

The first thing that I did was brand it with ubuntu sticker  and then install Hardy, It work well except by the Nvidia Driver and Wireless (Atheros). Envy (thanks Alberto Milone) make a really got job finding out the perfect driver for my Nivida graphics and ndiswrapper (thanks ndiswrapper team)help me with the Wireless.

Well After a couple of days i finally customized like i want see the results

[download the wallpaper]

[Theme: Murrina Dark]

She will be my companion on all events to come

[1]Ghanima means in Fremen tongue : “something acquired in battle”. I like it because I really battle a lot for it

Weekend Advocacy

On Saturday, walking across the Ripley Max Mall checking out some notebooks I found out that there was some Olidata notebooks with Ubuntu Pre-Installed I started testing them and realize that were installed with Gutsy.

After a couple of minutes a Clerk ask, Would you like to know more about the product?, I said : Yes, of course. so he talked about the hardware and when he came to the OS he said: It comes with some linux, but you can format the HD and install Windows XP.

In that moment I realize that Clerks need urgent update about Ubuntu, so took out my hardy ship it  copy and gave him it. also told him that I will be back tomorrow (Sunday) to demonstrate the installation and configuration.

Well Sunday was a good beginning, The Clerk told to his co - workers :). The results were: 2 Laptop full installed : Ubuntu + Compiz Fusion + Restricted Extras. Obiously Compiz Fusion leave them with the mouth open, special because there were on simple notebooks (Pentiun Celeron, 512Mb Ram, no special graphic card) also some convinced clients

Conclusions:

Ubuntu Advocacy also must target clerks and Retailers because their influence in the final customer is crucial and if they underestimate Linux, customer will go with the wrong info about it.

I will keep looking fordward to aproach the sales managers to talk about it

Hello Planet Ubuntu :)

I’m glad to be part of Ubuntu Members :), My contibutions will be bigger each month

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