Hi everybody
I will share with some experiences about
activities that are taking place
nowadays in Cuba and also related with
the Debian Project
Who am I? I am Jonathan Bustillos Osornio
(Jathan) also
I am a Debian contributor and a Debian
user since 2008 and I have been helping
on some teams like po-debconf templates,
translations in the Debian Spanish
Translation Team since 2011 and on Debian
Reproducible Builds in 2017
In Cuba there is a community of Free Software
users and developers who have been working
on different activities and useful
developments to extend the use of Debian
and other Free Software projects
throughout the country
The first group that we have is the GUTL
The Free Tecnologies Users Group, in
Spanish - Grupo de Usuarios de Tecnologias
Libres, is an organisation in Cuba since
the development of the GNU/Linux users
communities of the whole country.
It pushes the usage of free technologies
organizing events, workshops, courses and
many more activities of social impact with
Free Software.
Some of this events are like the Free
Document Day related with Libreoffice
And this are the pictures of the events,
also the FLISol the Latin American
Festival Free Software Instalation
Also recreation activities
GUTL has a website in each they publish
many articles or news related with Debian
and another Free Software projects.
The GUTL was born in 2009 and since then
it has been one of the most influencial
organisations in Cuba to learn, use and
share Free Software, hardware and knowledge
The main work objectives of this
organisation are technological sovereignty
Social Comptroller, socialization of
Information, Project development
International visibility for Cuba in the
field for free software and free
Technologies.
Now we will know about free software
projects and it's achievements
The GUTL group has created a repository
called REPOGUTL which is an implementation
of something called the Cuban Sourceforge,
by their developers and users
where free software developers have the
opportunity to publicize their creations
and get feedback, promoting the migration
and use of Free Software to Cuban users.
This is the system which you could
find in the website
the repository generated with Cuban free
software called Alfidi is structured in two
major categories, these are applications
and products, with subcategories under them
and they include the title of the application,
the author, contacts if it is desired by the
creator, size, a brief description and a
long description in addition to the
instructions for installation.
These are the main developers of REPOGUTL
and maintainers, Maikel Enrique Pernia Matos
And Delio Orozco González.
Also we have a free software project called
MISOX
Misox is of set of Free Software
applications developed by Maikel Pernía
Matos , Delio Orozco González and
Alberto Miguel Nuevo Rojo in the
province of Manzanillo Granma in Cuba,
under the GNU GPL license and also
packaged as .deb for our debian distribution
with the purpose of helping computer users
to create a customization of Debian
GNU/Linux adjusting it to their necessities
since an easy and well integrated
environment.
These are some screenshots of the program,
it's main purpose is to facilitate some
computer users customization of debian
GNU/Linux operating system and to put
the packages the users want, to set the
graphical interface like Gnome, Kde [???]
like Fluxbox, Awesome, I3
And also it offers the possibility to add
individual debian packages from an
external source.
There is another project called VideoMorph
which is a is a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg,
based on code from python-video-converter
and presets idea from QWinFF and FF Multi
Converter, developed by Ozkar L. Garcell,
Leodanis Pozo Ramos and Leonel Salazar
Videaux in Holguín, Cuba.
And this is the screenshot.
The mais goal of VideoMorph is to focus
is a single purpose making video conversion
simple with an easy to use GUI and allowing
the user to convert to the currently most
popular video formats.
These are the colleagues that are working
on the group of GUTL in Holguín.
And they also organize activities to talk
about some free software community
or present some program to their users.
And they have also created a website
called Debian GNU/Linux in Holguín,
that is Debian Hlg, and in this website
they publish news related to Debian,
events that are organized in this part
of the far east of Cuba in Holguín, and
it's a very nice way to stay in contact
with the local users.