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Last week from Tuesday until Friday(May 4-7, 2010), the city of Zaragoza and the Aragon Regional Government hosted our GNOME 3.0 Marketing Hackfest.

We had a really productive and busy week, working on the marketing plans and actions for launching GNOME 3.0.

The main subjects were:

GNOME 3 Website:

As Andreas already said, the goal is create a website with videos showing the new great and amazing things on GNOME 3, the new website will be more integrated with social networks, in this way we will have a dynamical content from user in social networks.

Website Mockup by Andreas

GNOME 3 Talking Points:

Yes, we compile everything cool (or the most)  you should know about GNOME 3. I should confess I was a resistant old GNOME look and feel user(I love my GNOME panel), and working on the plans for launching the GNOME 3 was really convinced about all the changes. The new GNOME is amazing and it is more, much more than we can see.

The new Ambassadors project:

A new way to get more contributors at the project and spread the GNOME at the world. Our goal is provide all the infra for the new ambassadors, everyone will feel comfortable to talk about GNOME in conferences, universities and regional groups. Take look at our almost done draft http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors

Video Story boards:

The story boards for new videos on the new GNOME 3 website were created. Now we just need to film then

Sumana has summarized all the work we have done during the week at the hackfest in her blog.

We talked to members of the local community that are doing a great work developing free software in their companies as Ignacio Correas in EBOX and Felix Ontanon and Juan Ojeda in  Emergya.

You can see more pics here.

Thanks all the attendees Stormy, Jason, Vincent, Andreas, Sumana, Paul, Bharat, Ryan and Dani, it was a pleasure work with you.

Thanks Agustín, Albert and Ignacio for the hospitality.

And of course, many thanks for our sponsors: Zaragoza Municipality, Aragon Regional Government, Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA), ASOLIF, CESLA and the GNOME Foundation .

Warning: It’s just a brief report!

Last week all brazilians nerds, geeks and hackers migrated for Porto Alegre-RS-Brazil during 4 days!

It was the biggest FLOSS conference at Brazil and Latin America, FISL!

Of course Ubuntu Brazil was there! In the first time on the history, we get so many brazilian ubuntu members together, it was awesome! Inside the fisl agenda we get our 4th Brazilian ubuntu users conference, where I, Ursula and Fábio talked Ubuntu-BR community, launchpad and translations. Our stand was crowded all the time by users asking for help and sometimes for CDs and another gifts

Does anyone know who is the man in the picture bellow?

He is Lula the President of Brazil! Yes buddies, now the president knows about Ubuntu, Ubuntu-BR and he has a ubuntu-br t-shirt! Click in the picture to watch the video.
One think that made me really suprised was some people ask about what is ubuntu, I had no idea that still people who doesn’t know ubuntu(of course I’m talking about people who studies tecnologies). It made me think a lot about how much work we have to do!

So I’d like to say thanks for all Brazilian Ubuntu guys: André Gondim, Duda Nogueira, Fábio Nogueira, Ricardo Cropalato, Laudeci, Jonh Wendell…

and the canonical staff: Adilson, Fábio Filho and Ursula Junque.

Now is work for Latinoware!

More Pictures:

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntuser/sets/72157620452339579/

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/licio/sets/72157620784533460/

UPDATE: Link for the President’s speech in english  http://opensource.org/node/446

It’s time to packing again!
LatinoWare is coming up around the corner, and finally Ubuntu-BR crew has confirmed their participation. Latinoware is a important conference to Latin America free software community,  this year we’ll have some Ubuntu members: Nicolas Valcarcel (Peru), Jonh Wendell, Duda Nogueira, Fabio Nogueira, and others…

LatinoWare will be host for another two big meetings: the 5º Gnome Forum and the  Fedora Latin America Conference for Ambassadors and Users.

I’ve promessed last Fisl to post about it every day, unfortunately it was a quite complicated. I hope be able to post my point of view about LatinoWare at least every day in English and Portuguese. I might create a new account for English twitts. Of course, if I survive the long journey by bus from where I live to Foz do Iguaçu, I believe it can take a day!

I really have to say thanks to LatinoWare staff, Fedora Brasil Crew, and Jono for the help.