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Hi everybody

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I will share with some experiences about
activities that are taking place

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nowadays in Cuba and also related with
the Debian Project

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Who am I? I am Jonathan Bustillos Osornio 
(Jathan) also


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I am a Debian contributor and a Debian
user since 2008 and I have been helping

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on some teams like po-debconf templates,
translations in the Debian Spanish

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Translation Team since 2011 and on Debian
Reproducible Builds in 2017

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In Cuba there is a community of Free Software
users and developers who have been working

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on different activities and useful
developments to extend the use of Debian

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and other Free Software projects 
throughout the country

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The first group that we have is the GUTL
The Free Tecnologies Users Group, in

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Spanish - Grupo de Usuarios de Tecnologias
Libres, is an organisation in Cuba since

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the development of the GNU/Linux users
communities of the whole country.

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It pushes the usage of free technologies
organizing events, workshops, courses and

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many more activities of social impact with
Free Software.

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Some of this events are like the Free
Document Day related with Libreoffice

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And this are the pictures of the events,
also the FLISol the Latin American

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Festival Free Software Instalation

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Also recreation activities

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GUTL has a website in each they publish
many articles or news related with Debian

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and another Free Software projects.

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The GUTL was born in 2009 and since then
it has been one of the most influencial

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organisations in Cuba to learn, use and
share Free Software, hardware and knowledge

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The main work objectives of this 
organisation are technological sovereignty

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Social Comptroller, socialization of
Information, Project development

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International visibility for Cuba in the
field for free software and free

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Technologies.

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Now we will know about free software 
projects and it's achievements

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The GUTL group has created a repository 
called REPOGUTL which is an implementation

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of something called the Cuban Sourceforge,
by their developers and users

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where free software developers have the 
opportunity to publicize their creations

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and get feedback, promoting the migration
and use of Free Software to Cuban users.

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This is the system which you could
find in the website

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the repository generated with Cuban free
software called Alfidi is structured in two

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major categories, these are applications
and products, with subcategories under them

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and they include the title of the application,
the author, contacts if it is desired by the

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creator, size, a brief description and a
long description in addition to the

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instructions for installation.

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These are the main developers of REPOGUTL
and maintainers, Maikel Enrique Pernia Matos

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And Delio Orozco González.

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Also we have a free software project called
MISOX

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Misox is of set of Free Software
applications developed by Maikel Pernía

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Matos , Delio Orozco González and
Alberto Miguel Nuevo Rojo in the

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province of Manzanillo Granma in Cuba, 
under the GNU GPL license and also

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packaged as .deb for our debian distribution
with the purpose of helping computer users

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to create a customization of Debian 
GNU/Linux adjusting it to their necessities

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since an easy and well integrated 
environment.

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These are some screenshots of the program,
it's main purpose is to facilitate some

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computer users customization of debian
GNU/Linux operating system and to put

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the packages the users want, to set the
graphical interface like Gnome, Kde [???]

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like Fluxbox, Awesome, I3

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And also it offers the possibility to add
individual debian packages from an

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external source.

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There is another project called VideoMorph
which is a is a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg,


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based on code from python-video-converter
and presets idea from QWinFF and FF Multi

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Converter, developed by Ozkar L. Garcell, 
Leodanis Pozo Ramos and Leonel Salazar

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Videaux in Holguín, Cuba.

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And this is the screenshot.

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The mais goal of VideoMorph is to focus
is a single purpose making video conversion

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simple with an easy to use GUI and allowing
the user to convert to the currently most

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popular video formats.

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These are the colleagues that are working
on the group of GUTL in Holguín.

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And they also organize activities to talk
about some free software community

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or present some program to their users.
And they have also created a website

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called Debian GNU/Linux in Holguín, 
that is Debian Hlg, and in this website

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they publish news related to Debian,
events that are organized in this part

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of the far east of Cuba in Holguín, and 
it's a very nice way to stay in contact

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with the local users.

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Some achievements of the GUTL is
[???] is one of the most actives communities

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in Cuba, because they are a lot of members,
and they have the support of the university

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of Holguín, for some activities.
We have also an official member of the

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document foundation, Carlos Parra Zaldivar
and he's working with libreoffice community

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directly.

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Also there are four free software active
developers,

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there are two programs in development,

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and two active repositories in GitHub.

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Beside this it would have three websites
with international visibility like Debian

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in Holguín, and Python Scouts and 
Libreoffice cubava

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Sometimes the Holguín free software
community has a space to talk about free

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technologies at a TV program of Cuba called
"A Buen Tiempo", there is something like

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[???] time.

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By the other hand we have a lot of activity
in Granma province, that is also in the East

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of Cuba

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This is the place in which more Free
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in island, also REPOGUTL was hosted here,
until some months ago, because now the

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organization was supporting the group
it is not [???] anymore, to give the hosting

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because of institutional restrictions.

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Many programs in development,
also there are one GUTL website editor,


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and there is a free software active
developer.

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In Santiago de Cuba also we have a 
GUTL website editor, and they have created

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a blog called SWL-X, that is a a web blog
related to free software activities

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and there is a free software active developer

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So now i will talk about some events that 
has been taking place during the last two

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years, this is the CubaConf and these the 
Free Technologies Cuban Conference

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CubaConf, is an international conference about
Free Software and open technologies that have

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taken place in Havana, Cuba since 2016.
CubaConf is a meeting from the international


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community of enthusiasts of many parts of
the world besides the Cuban local communities,

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peer to peer focused and collective
development. It seeks the participation of people


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with different profiles and diverse geographical
locations.

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[???] CubaConf that was on 2016, we have
here the last that was in November of last

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year and we had the opportunity to have
some Debian developers, for instance in

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2016 Tiago Bortolleto and Tassia Camões
went to CubaConf and they pushed to

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create with Leonel Salazar a Cuban
free software developer to organize

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for the first time the mini-debconf
in Cuba.

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From the organization of the conference
it is aimed at the diversity of topics and


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projects, as of its participants, so the 
participation of women, minority groups

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in these activities is crucial to build new 
inclusive spaces of knowledge and dialogue

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about technology. The main idea is to know 
people experience and organizations who

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work with and in Free Software, with old 
hardware technologies and little or slow

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bandwidth, to talk about how Free Software
can help developing countries.

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During the last CubaConf we had a great
number of girls participating with talks

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and even attending the event and that was
very motivating, we also had a talk with Molly

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de Blanc of the Free Software Foundation
and she did a very nice presentation

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And this is the global photo from last year

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Now I will talk about the mini debconf,
CubaConf 2016 these encounters between

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Tassia, Tiago and Leonel, has pushed to
organize for the first time the mini debconf

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in Cuba.

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This college is Leonel Salazar Videaux
and he's one of the founders of UTL and

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DebianHlg in Holguín, he's a free software
user since 2004

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First time using Debian GNU/Linux was with
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he has been spreading the Debian Project
in local communities in Cuba and organizing


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events as MiniDebConf. He is a programmer
has a profession.

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So during last mini debconf we had some topics
like how about to help the debian project

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from Cuba, the Cuban community share 2
main projects where Misox and VideoMorph

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developers showed how is the development
of the programs and how to use them

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Also I had the opportunity to present a talk
about reproducible builds for first time in

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Spanish and it was very useful to track
new debian enthusiasts users and also to

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the currently developers like Mike and Oscar
from Videomorph and Misox,

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it was a new topic to start taking care with
the principles of the reproducible builds

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in the construction of then new versions
for their development with Misox and

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Videomorph.

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So much of this work has been carried 
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with Debian and the Free Software 
movement, that despite the different

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difficulties to sustain some costs
economically, access the Internet, acquire

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computer hardware and achieve official
recognition as developers of some

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Free Software community in the world 
due to all the above, they continue to

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contribute in a decisive way projects
that should be available to everyone

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inside and outside of Cuba.

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Because for instance the Misox project
Videomorph and many other programs

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are hosted in the REGUTL by the limitations
of hardware, money available to the Cuban

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users

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In that way I consider that it would be very
interesting and important to think

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about how the Debian could support and 
recognize those who contribute directly to

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the use and development of our 
distribution, in places where there


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is a willingness to do so and strengthen 
our community by being inclusive of them?

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Because we know the Debian Social Contract,
our guidelines, but how can we

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considered to those that are in a country
in which you could connect to the

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internet but it's very expensive and 
if you want to interact with the mailing

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list or you want to stay in contact with
another debian maintainer or debian

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developers it's not so easy, because simple
you don't have the conditions

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So I want to leave the question to have a 
dialog and to see what do you think, which


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possibilities are in the debian project to
support for instance the Misox development

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that is based on debian and even the packages
will be in the repositories in the free section

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Well that is all, and thank you very much for
your attention

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[Applause]

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Any comments or questions?

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[Q:] The Misox distribution is it
registrated with the derivatives [???] do

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you know if they already collaborate with
debian in that way?

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[A:] No the Misox development is [???] just
by local developers in Cuba,

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and they have not make contact with some
debian developers outside.

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Then would be my first suggestion, for them
to just inform debian in a relatively

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formalized way what is this they are doing,
with derives from debian how is it different

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That's an helpful thing to me and I believe 
also for other in debian and also from

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outside debian to compare, and then
getting [???] what would be interesting

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to cherry pick and put into debian,
and what would be important to coordinate

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So the very reference that they exist
in a more formal way it's not a lot of work

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just a wikipage to inform, who to contact
how to contact, i remember once

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looking at Misox webpage and trying to
navigate, and I was lost in locating who

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should I even contact, how is it structured
and that's partially a cost because I

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don't understand Spanish , so that's one
[???] personally , but that could be other

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things also, how do they put the information
for their users, and how to present it for

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debian, and collaborate with us.

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Ok, thank you...

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[Q:] Just want to ask how are yourself
related to the Cuban community?

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[A:] I was in contact with some developers
like Leonel, Maikel, Delio because the

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CubaConf and the mini-debconf have
this knowledge, beyond this I don't know

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if there are more projects that are
underground more than this

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so yes this is the only contact that I
have with the Cuban developers