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Revision as of 20:31, 9 January 2009
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).
I applied to become fedora ambassador on August 20th, 2008.
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 and #fedora-es at freenode when time allows it)
- Fedora Account: yn1v
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)
Fedora Ambassador
Groups
- Amateur Radio SIG
- Free Media
Tasks
- Editor of Fedora-ni wiki
- Support at the Fedora-ni Mailing List and Fedora-es Mailing List
- Free Media Program member since November 26th, 2008.
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 Spanish translation of The unofficial Fedora FAQ
- Help on the documentation of Amateur Radio applications that are included on Fedora
Fedora Upcoming Activities
- Fedora 10 Lauch Party (suspended)
Fedora Past Activities
- August 16th Un día con la UCA - UCA
- Coordinate the event
- July 22th Software Libre para No-Informáticos - UCA
- Coordinate the event
- Speak promoting GNUCash
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
- January Repo Workshop at UCA
- January 23th Pizza-Bash II at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda
FOSS Past Activities
- December 19th Pizza Bash at ISI Managua
- September 26th Ubuntu Barcamp 1.5
- Drinker
- September 20th Software Freedom Day Nicaragua 2008 at UCA
- Staff - Coordinate the conference area.
- August 14th Dia Debian 2008 at UNI-IES
- Provide a projector
- June 20th openSUSE day at UNICIT
- Support
- June 14th Mandriva Install Party 2008 at UNI-IES
- Support
- Provide Projector
- June 13th Ubuntu Translation Sprint at ISI
- Translator - 84 strings
- June 12th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
- Speach
- Provide Projector
- June 5th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
- Provide a projector
- June 4th to 6th Feria Tecnologica at UNAN-Managua
- Support
- May 23th Linux Tour at ISI Managua
- Support
- April 26th FLISOL 2008 at UNAN
- Registration Desk
Publications
- Article: Software Freedom at Nicaragua at Observador Economico Magazine online version (spanish)