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It happend to me many times that when I wanted to download something big with my rapidshate account that the links sites have urls in plain text instead of html links and if I want to download it I have to copy one by one… To avoid that I created Link maker, a very basic “service” that transforms urls into links. It seams stupid but tourned out to be very usefull for some of my friends.

This release Ubuntu-ar is very pleased to anounce that we are making three parties in three different cities. Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Tucuman.

If you are close to this parties you are invited!

Buenos Aires

Place: Dr. Mason

Address: Araoz 1199 (entre Av. Córdoba y Cabrera) View map

Site: http://www.doctormason.com.ar/

Date: thursday, October 30th 2008

Time: 19:30

Persons going so far: 59

Cordoba

Place: Resto-Bar Mátame Rodriguez

Address: Avellaneda esq. Campillo (A tres cuadras de Lavalleja) en Barrio Cofico (a 8 cuadras del Parque Las Heras).

Date: thursday, October 30th 2008

Time: 19:30

Persons going so far: 12

Tucuman

Place: Crisóstomo Álvarez 4482, Barrio Guillermina.

Address: Se encuentra a la altura de Av. Mate de Luna al 4400. Antes de la rotonda de “El Cristo”, se entra yendo hacia el cerro cruzando la Avenida a mano izquierda por las calles Boyaca o Huemul 2 cuadras, hasta la Crisóstomo Álvarez y luego buscar la altura exacta. Croquis del lugar http://www.pcrestor.com.ar/maxi/LUG/Croquis.jpg

Date: Friday, October 31th 2008

Time: 21:30

Persons going so far: 16

If you are arround any of this meetings you are very welcome

Next thursday Octuber 30th, Ubuntu-ar celebrates the arrival of the Intrepid Ibex, and we want you all to join us, not befor letting the “sudo aptitude dist-upgrade” in your computer.

The party venue in Buenos Aires will be Dr. Mason, in Palermo - Araoz 1199 (Two blocks from Córdoba Av.)

If you are in BA feel free to come, we will be glad to have you in our party!!!

If you are planning to come please be kind to add yourself to the wiki (just to estimate) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/releaseparty

See you there!

The last three days I have been working in the Ubuntu-ar stand and helping the organization in the 8th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre in Buenos Aires. Mark Shuttleworth confirmed his assistance as a keynote speaker but at last minute he canceled. So Jhon ‘Maddog’ Hall president of Linux International gave a talk as if he where Mark about how to make money with free software.

When he entered the room the “2001: a space odissey” music sounded the lights where off and then he suddenly appears in the stage. It was SO funny!

This are the pictures of his talk.

We have all signed “marks” attendance certificate and will give it to him.

You can see all the other pictures here

I will be helping with the ubuntu-ar stand at the 8vas Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre in Buenos Aires, , and maybe (if they are approved) giving a couple of talks.

What is “Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre”?

JSRL is a regional, international & roving event where many people work to integrate proyects, launch new ideas and overcome the hurdles of the software they use.

2008 will be the 8th. edition of the event that already was held at Argentina and Uruguay. For the 2009 edition Chile is planning to host it.

During the event programmers, developers, strategists, technology experts and entrepeneurs involved with Free software will meet to exchange ideas, share techniques, discuss and explore free technologies such as Perl, MySQL, JAVA, PHP, Python, Linux, Apache and many more.

Who hosts this year’s?

The organization of the workshop this year (2008) rests upon CaFeLUG, Capital Federal Free Software Users Group and has the support and participation of organizations alike. Since its beginnings, back to 2000, CaFeLUG has been building up a thriving task force of Free Software philosophy advocates, being one of the most numerous and active groups of the country.

CaFeLUG does regular work activities, among whose you can find monthly meetings, Charlas Técnicas Trimestrales (Quarterly Technical Speeches) and its Conferencia Anual (Anual Conference), CaFeCONF.

Who are the spetial guests this year?

• Mark Shuttleworth
• Chris Hoffman
• Rik van Riel
• Jon ‘maddog’ Hall
• Christoph Hellwig
• Dag Wieers

If you would like to attend you can find some usefull information here

[edit] I forget about putting the dates which are August 20, 21 and 22

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