At 2007 the first activity that I participated with the LUGUSAC people, was FLISOL.

FLISOL is the Latin American Festival of Free (as in speech) Software Installation. I remember that my first impression was “this people is crazy . . . i’m in the right place”. The first conversation was about why Debian sucks rules and what we need to realize the goals of this event.

In 2008 we started shekalug, and organize the first FLISOL in San Pedro Sacatepequez, San Marcos with mixed results. This was my first experience creating a LUG (Linux User Group) and also coordinating a Free Software event.

Now I’m finishing the second year as Guatemala general coordinator with Luis Alvarado (lfac). This year was very different, lfac has a new and demanding job and I’m finishing the University. Both didn’t have the enough time to coordinate like the past years. But the things changed since 2007, now the community is very strong. More and more people is happy to help with the Free Software movement (and of course Open Source philosophy). Sure we had troubles, flame-wars, discussions, mistakes, people that leaves the movement. But this is common in whatever event/community not only in Free Software.

In this road I meet very interesting people, ready to help and share knowledge, time, or . . . money . I’m happy and want to say “thanks to all people, community, coordinators, this event is possible only with your help. As coordinators we only have one different task: empacayar a la gente (motivate the people to participate)”.

I thik this will be my last year as coordinator. This was a great experience but it’s time to give oportunity to everybody and I will be participating but in another role .

Again thanks to all for making this event possible.

PD: This year I’ll be helping in two events outside Guatemala City: FLISOL Quetzaltenango (tomorrow) and another location that I’m not 100% sure. But I’ll see you there.

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posted by tuxtor
Tags: 2010, FLISOL, Guatemala
Filed under: Freedom tutorials