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Today marks 2 years of the meeting between Rafael Correa and Richard Stallman , why Rafael Bonifaz and I have decided to write about how this event happened. Here you can read the version of Rafael on history.

During the election campaign of 2006, I worked one day receive mail the following message:

--- Forwarded message ----
From: Rafael Bonifaz
Date: October 4, 2006 11:53
Subject: Free Software
To: Rafael Correa

Dear Rafael,

My name is Rafael Bonifaz and I am a Systems Engineer. Currently in addition to my professional work I am active in free software communities of Ecuador. In this country little is spoken on the subject, but countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, parts of Spain and Europe are moving to the use of Free Software. To win you the election, propose a plan regarding the use of free software in the state?

To cite one example, now the municipality of Quito should pay IBM a value close to $ 200 000 per year for the use of your email server and that the mayor can share your calendar with the councilors. We can offer a similar solution, with some software development and use of free software for a cost of nearly $ 20 000 for a single time. Hence, the municipality can hire us to support us or any other company that knows the subject. Do not stay locked to us.

With $ 200 000 a year can do more for the benefit of the community rather than pay a fee for use of computers. This is only a servant of a municipality. Imagine the cost of all licenses of windows, office and other programs used by the state. How could we save by using free software and the money spent would stay in training national professionals, instead of paying multinationals.

Sincerely,

Rafael Bonifaz

PD. The main community of free software in Ecuador is:
www.ecualug.org

One person who was responsible for reviewing the emails told me and what I do with this?, I read the message and said, give it to me I answer.

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Well a few days ago came the version 8.10 of Ubuntu, so I downloaded it and decided to try on my machine.

So far I can say that truth is a very good version, and I really like the changes I've seen that have been made are the best.

My machine has 3 partitions root, swap, home, that way it's easier to change distro and more safely have my files and preferences.

I made the respective format of the root, and after finishing it, I could see that this version starts much faster than 8.04.

That has worked for me (from what I've tried so far)

• Audio: no problem, even before working alone with the alsa mixer, but this time I decided to put everything to PulseAudio Sound Server and works great, really worth all the audio programs I work with no problems.
  Well I have it configured:
  Sound Events, Music and Movies, Audio Conferencing all with PulseAudio Sound Server option
  Defaul Mixer Tracks: HDA NVidia (Alsa Mixer)
• Video: the best, and they've released an Nvidia driver version 177, which works without problems and now work for all purposes, in the previous version gave some problems but this has been corrected.

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Few people had access to computers when Richard Matthew Stallman realized the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying users the four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it. Today, millions of individuals, companies and governments use the
result of efforts to preserve and defend their freedoms started 25 years ago, but few even know about the GNU project. Celebrate the achievements and spread the word!

• http://www.gnu.org/

The September 27, 1983, RMS announced to the world his goal of writing an operating system compatible with UNIX and free, ie not require users to give up their freedom to use, study, modify and distribute any software, modified or no. He invited programmers to join this task of developing a sufficiently large body of software to enable people to use computers in freedom, according to the moral foundations of sharing, solidarity and reciprocity.

• http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html

• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.es.html

After the initial focus on development tools including a compiler, a debugger, an integrated development environment and system libraries (GCC, GDB, Emacs, and glibc, respectively), hundreds of other applications, utilities and libraries were contributed by a growing number volunteers.

• http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/

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Well a few weeks ago the idea of ​​writing a post to help migrants with the use of tools available online, but I really think this can also be useful post for exchange students, frequent travelers, backpackers, people who one way or another want to be in touch with loved ones and acquaintances, even within the same country.

I hope these tips can help you, if you have any more suggestion, send it to me by e-mail to include it.

This is written based on my experience when I travel out and some new things that I have known in recent months in Korea.

Blog
I think one of the most interesting things when traveling is that you have everything you do and show everything you do, at least this is my case, so I recommend you open a blog.

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During the International Congress of Society and Electronic Government CONSEGI developed in Brazil from 27 to 29 August 2008, the countries of Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay and Ecuador signed a document protesting the ISO standard (trucho) of OOXML .

As you may recall some months ago was made ​​the adoption of standard OOXML , this process was marked of much controversy , because some countries may check the manipulation of the vote by micro $ oft, now the countries that voted NO on that occasion have decided to raise their protest against the approval of the standard.

Today's blog by Charles Escobar , I have heard that the CONESUP has informed the directors of the Country on the Decree 1014 of Free Software .

This speaks well that we are on the right track. I hope that universities implement it and begin to teach courses in greater depth the issue of Free Software.

In good time, comrades!

I did this tutorial in order to connect with NIU's Broadband USB modem Alegro with Franklin Wireless CDU 550's EVDO via Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.

For Ubuntu 7.10 you have to first make an extra step that I copy in the end, but it's easy.

We connect the USB modem's Franklin Wireless CDU 550 EVDO in any port and through a terminal window tipeamos

$ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

There goes that port scanning is mounted USB modem. In my case I get the following result: Read the rest »

This forum on the 1014 Act will be made ​​on the radio program of Science and Technology Multimedia Urban World 106.

Participate: Charles Escobar (President of the ASLE ), Ernesto Kruger (President of the AESOFT ), Rafael Bonifaz (Director of the Free Software Secretariat for Informatics ), Esteban Mendieta Jara (Presidential Adviser)

Moderators: Jose Rivera ( Multimedia 106 ), Paulina Paredes ( PC World )

Live on the 106.9 FM, Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 11:30 to 12:30

Can follow through internet

For people who could no longer live interview am available the same

Decree 1014 Free Software Forum [50:37 m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Is the holder of the note published in the Diario El Pais in Spain.

This gives us the reason, once again, why use free software , and we can not be at the expense of a company change the systems and support we run out, or are required to have to buy a new computer, think about whether this happen with a system that manages a country's securities and the company that owns the system decides not to give more support or simply does not give us the keys or access to the system, there is a clear example as happened in Venezuela .

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The Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) under Executive Order number 1014 , signed by President Rafael Correa on April 10 this year, will use free software on their systems and computer equipment.

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