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The picture above shows the students from Los Chilamates who have been attending Saturday XO classes at la Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador.

Classes have been proceeding well, and I’ll report back with more details as soon as I have them.  My son, Louis, will be heading to El Salvador on December 17 to help with the project.  I’ll be sending detailed reports back from Chalatenango during his visit.

Louis’s goals for the project during his visit include:

1. Bring two mini computers running Ubuntu Karmic for the lab.
2. Get a router working so that multiple computers can connect to the Internet at the same time.
3. Organize at least 2 classes with the 5 teenage activists in the project using the networked computers.
4. Jump start work on the website.

Scratch on Ubuntu

In related news, there is now a PPA (personal package archive) with the latest Scratch available on Launchpad.  The project is located here.  It works like a charm!  I’ve been using wine to run the windows version, but midi functions like playing notes and instruments never worked this way.  Now it does, and having a native version makes saving and finding projects a lot easier as well.

Since I will also need Scratch running on the Fedora 12 machines we have in the lab for Sugar development, I needed an rpm.  Sabastian Dzaillas, maintainer of the Fedora EDU spin, suggested I try using alien.  I did, and it worked!

Email me if you want a copy of the rpm.  I want to find a place to post it, but I’m still not sure about the licensing issues.  It works, but it still needs a bit of love to get rid of the errors that are reported during installation.

Jeff Elkner

http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/11/update-from-los-chilamates.html

En la recién pasada Campus Party tuve el gusto de conocer a John Hall muy conocido dentro del mundo del Software Libre.

Hablo acerca del software Libre como modelo de negocios y explico algunos de los fundamentos por los cuales el Software Libre es mejor opción para el desarrollo.

Este enlace es una entrevista que le hicieron a Maddog en una campusparty

The tortilla is a flatbread made from corn or wheat. The word “tortilla” originally comes from the Spanish word torta, which means “round cake”. When Spanish explorers discovered an unleavened flatbread made by the Aztecs, they called it tortilla (little torta).

Picture by Helen Massana

Cerro de las Pavas

Its principal tourist attraction from Cojutepeque is Cerro de las Pavas, from which the lake of Ilopango, the volcano of San Vicente, and the Valley of Jiboa can be seen.

The peak known as Cerro de las Pavas can be reached via two roads from Cojutepeque: one for cars, the other a zigzagging path for pedestrians.

In 1924, Governor Fidel Novoa began an improvement program for the peak and built the park known as Parque de Montaña. During the administration of President Oscar Osorio, the pathways leading to the peak were improved thanks to the efforts of the poet Raúl Contreras.

There is a grotto on the peak that displays an image of the Our Lady of Fátima. A pilgrimage to this grotto occurs in May and is a major religious festival in El Salvador.

(i’m  koala in this picture)

Our Karmic Koala party, Ubuntu El Salvador Team

More about Karmic Koala: http://decacross.org/blog/2009/10/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/