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Revision as of 18:35, 19 November 2008
Neville A. Cross
I am Admnistrative Manager at [Hotel Mansion Teodolinda] at Managua city, capital of Nicaragua. I have a business degree, so I am not a deep knowledgeable computer person. I am a Amateur Radio since 1993, and a enthusiast on packet radio. By now I have a license of the highest level.
My very first attempts with linux were with Red Hat around 1999, I had several hardware problems and leave it for some years. I took a book of FC4 bible in 2006 and have been using Fedora as my main OS ever since.
There is no much Linux formal training opportunities at Nicaragua, so I took a short course in Linux Server Administration based on openSUSE (May - June 2008). This helped me a lot to fill in where my empiric learning have left voids.
I have joined the local Fedora community called [Fedora-ni] on march 2008. By the same time I have joined the local LUG: GUL-NIC (Grupo de usuarios Linux de Nicaragua).
Trivia
- Location: Managua, Nicaragua. 1206.29 N / 08615.91 W
- Time Zone: UTC +06:00
- Languages: Spanish (first language), English (as second language), Portuguese (just a bit).
- Nacionality: Nicaraguan
- Higer Education:
- BA Business Administration - [Universidad Centroamericana], Nicaragua.
- MSc Organisational Change and Development - [The University of Manchester] - United Kingdom.
- Call Sing:YN1V (for Amateur Radio)
Contact Data
- Blog: http://neville.siqueres.com (Spanish)
- Website: http://www.geocities.com/displicente (Spanish)
- E-mail: nacross (at) gmail (dot) com
- GPG:
- IRC: yn1v (usually #fedora-ni at freenode when time allows it)
- Fedora Account: yn1v
Tasks
- Editor of [Fedora-ni wiki]
- Support at the [Fedora-ni Mailing List]
Projects as an Ambassador
- Promote a monthly gathering where users that get Fedora installed from different install parties can get support.
- Set up a local repository at Nicaragua. In the mean time set up a private repository for updates a give access to users that do not have internet and also to be used at install parties without internet access.
- Participate in the Free Media Program
Fedora Upcoming Activities
- Fedora 10 Lauch Party [(suspended)]
Fedora Past Activities
- July 22th [Libre para No-Informáticos] - [UCA]
- Coordinate the event
- Speak promoting GNUCash
- August 16th [Un día con la UCA] - [UCA]
- Coordinate the event
FOSS
FOSS Projects
- Set up a wiki to share instructions for setting up linux for amateur radio use. Specially the topics related to AX.25.
- Set up a local forum to provide support for [GNUCash]
FOSS Upcoming Activities
- November 22th and 29th Repo Workshop at [UCA]
- December 19th Pizza Bash at [ISI Managua]
FOSS Past Activities
- April 26th [FLISOL 2008] at UNAN
- Registration Desk
- May 23th Linux Tour at [ISI Managua]
- Support
- June 4th to 6th Feria Tecnologica at UNAN-Managua
- Support
- June 5th Jornada Ubuntera at [UCA]
- Provide a projector
- June 12th Jornada Ubuntera at [UCA]
- Speach
- Provide Projector
- June 14th Mandriva Install Party 2008 at UNI-IES
- Support
- Provide Projector
- June 20th openSUSE day at UNICIT
- Support
- August 14th Dia Debian 2008 at UNI-IES
- Provide a projector
- September 20th [Software Freedom Day Nicaragua 2008] at [UCA]
- Staff - Coordinate the conference area.
- September 26th [Ubuntu Barcamp 1.5]
- Drinker
Publications
- Article: Software Freedom at Nicaragua at Observador Economico Magazine online version (spanish)