Thu, 07/01/2010 - 8:26pm
DrupalCamp Centroamerica 2010 in Guatemala
Last weekend (25 and 26 June 2010) took place the second DrupalCamp in Central America, the venue was this time the education center INTECAP in Guatemala. With 264 participants, it exceeded by more than double the number of participants for the DrupalCamp 2009 in Nicaragua. It brought together people from many fields: developers, designers, users, and both national and international companies to discuss the CMS/Framework Drupal. Another specific objective of the DrupalCamp was to strength and extend the still quite young Drupal community in Central America.
A variety of workshops and presentations were held, ranging from introductory courses about the installation and basic functionality of Drupal, CCK and Views, template creation, and Drupal oriented design processes to programming for Drupal, Semantic Web, Drupal and governments (in Central America).
It was a very refreshing weekend with a lot of exchange of experiences and many surprises. I particularly liked the lecture "Drupal in the government" in which Jonathan Lara (Blog, Twitter) was giving away secrets about how Drupal is taken into consideration by the Guatemalan government for future eGovernment projects.
Drupal definitely has made strong noise once again and is on the way to a broad application in Latin America and the wider Spanish-speaking countries. As the initiator of the first DrupalCamps in Central America, it has moved me most, that this DrupalCamp has become such a huge success and Drupal is on a serious way in this region. This is due to the incredible efforts of the organizers, who not only executed the DrupalCamp further they have built up within a year, an active Drupal community in Guatemala: Celeste Arreaga @ CelesteArreaga , Edgar Dueñas @ leddu , Francisco Boche @tufrac, Isaac Ordonez @kaasi, Marlon Alvarado @elguil.
Website: http://drupal-centroamerica.org (Spanish)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/drupal_ca (Spanish)
Photos (by Eduardo Rosales), More photos (Unknown source)
Thu, 06/25/2009 - 12:23am
A volar con Drupal
Spanish presentation on Drupal's basics, CCK and Views
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For the First Central American Free Software Summit in Esteli, Nicaragua,
I had put together a Spanish introduction workshop about Drupal
Topics of "a volar con drupal"
- Basic concepts Drupal
- Installation of Apache, MySQL, PHP y necessary settings (Ubuntu 9.04).
- Installation of Drupal and modules
- Content types
- Fields (CCK - Content Construction Kit)
- Views
- Aggregator
Video: http://www.archive.org/details/VolarConDrupal
The slides (PDF and ODP) as well as the used commands during the workshop are available at the "Spanish site of "a volar con drupal""
Mon, 06/22/2009 - 8:39pm
First Central American Free Software Summit
From the 17th of June till 21th of June 2009 the First Central American Free Software Summit was taking place in Nicaragua's northern mountains close to Estelí.
Over 80 persons met from all Central American countries and some others from the all over the world (Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Austria and Germany). Everybody was connected through the common ideology of Free Software and sharing. The majority of the attendants actively participate within local Linux User Groups inside of their countries. On the summit everybody loved to discuss topics like Free Software and government, Translation and adaption of open licenses to local jurisdictions, the role of women and Free Software in education (http://sl-centroamerica.org/wiki/Ecsl2009/Agenda).
There were a lot of interesting workshops on different topics. I feel very honored that I was invited to lead a Drupal workshop (A volar con Drupal).
Besides the official agenda there was a lot of time to get to know (almost) everybody pretty well. It was an very stimulant interexchange and a lot of new, promising ideas have been developed.
Further a very important step has been done by founding a commission that is going to organize the Central American Free Software movement and future events.
A general and public declaration was set up and signed by the attendants.
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/jimbodoors94/ECSL
http://gwolf.org/album/encuentro-centroamericano-de-software-libre-2009-0
Videos: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=ecsl2009
Blogs:
http://leogg.wordpress.com/category/ecsl/ (Spanish/English)
http://adario21.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/ecsl-nicaragua-dia-0/ (Spanish)
http://luisalvarado.blogspot.com/2009/06/ecsl-dia-2-mesas-de-trabajo.html (Spanish)
http://www.normangarcia.info/blog/archives/228 (Spanish)
Mon, 04/20/2009 - 7:00am
DrupalCamp Centroamerica 2009
Organizing the first DrupalCamp in Centralamerica
The first DrupalCamp in Central America took place 18th of april in Managua, Nicaragua. The all-day event aimed to actively form a community of professional drupalers from all Central American countries.
After weeks of hard work organizing the event: Over 100 interested Drupaler@s from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa-Rica, USA, Austria and (me) Germany came to attend this success full Bar Camp style conference.
The main purpose was sharing experience between Drupaler@s and getting to know each other for the first time. But there were a lot of good presentations and Addison Berry came from the United States to lead a Documentation Sprint.
Thanks to all of the attendees, the sponsors, who made this event possible, and a special "Thanks" to the Universidad Centroamericana that provided us with the venue and internet.
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=drupalnica09
Videos: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=drupalnica09
Website: http://www.drupal-centroamerica.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/drupal_ca
