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