User:Yn1v

Yn1v: Neville A. Cross

Neville A. Cross

I am Admnistrative Manager at Hotel Mansion Teodolinda at Managua city, capital of Nicaragua. I have a business degree, so I am not a deep knowledgeable computer person. I am a Amateur Radio since 1993, and a enthusiast on packet radio. By now I have a license of the highest level.

My very first attempts with linux were with Red Hat around 1999, I had several hardware problems and leave it for some years. I took a book of FC4 bible in 2006 and have been using Fedora as my main OS ever since.

There is no much Linux formal training opportunities at Nicaragua, so I took a short course in Linux Server Administration based on openSUSE (May - June 2008). This helped me a lot to fill in where my empiric learning have left voids.

I have joined the local Fedora community called Fedora-ni on march 2008. By the same time I have joined the local LUG: GUL-NIC (Grupo de usuarios Linux de Nicaragua).

I applied to become fedora ambassador on August 20th, 2008.

Contact Data

• Blog: http://neville.siqueres.com (Spanish)
• Website: http://www.geocities.com/displicente (Spanish)
• E-mail: nacross (at) gmail (dot) com
• GPG:
• IRC: yn1v (usually #fedora-ni and #fedora-es at freenode when time allows it)
• Fedora Account: yn1v

Trivia

• Location: Managua, Nicaragua. 1206.29 N / 08615.91 W
• Time Zone: UTC +06:00
• Languages: Spanish (first language), English (as second language), Portuguese (just a bit).
• Nacionality: Nicaraguan
• Higer Education:
  • BA Business Administration - Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua.
  • MSc Organisational Change and Development - The University of Manchester - United Kingdom.
• Call Sing: YN1V (for Amateur Radio)

Fedora Ambassador

Tasks

• Editor of Fedora-ni wiki
• Support at the Fedora-ni Mailing List and Fedora-es Mailing List
• Free Media Program member since November 26th, 2008.
  • Log of the Free Media I have sent

Projects as an Ambassador

• Promote a monthly gathering where users that get Fedora installed from different install parties can get support.
• Set up a local repository at Nicaragua. In the mean time set up a private repository for updates a give access to users that do not have internet and also to be used at install parties without internet access.
• Participate in the Spanish translation of The unofficial Fedora FAQ
• Help on the documentation of Amateur Radio applications that are included on Fedora

Fedora Upcoming Activities

• Fedora 10 Lauch Party (suspended)

Fedora Past Activities

• August 16th Un día con la UCA - UCA
  • Coordinate the event
• July 22th Software Libre para No-Informáticos - UCA
  • Coordinate the event
  • Speak promoting GNUCash

FOSS

FOSS Projects

• Set up a wiki to share instructions for setting up linux for amateur radio use. Specially the topics related to AX.25.
• Set up a local forum to provide support for GNUCash

FOSS Upcoming Activities

• January Repo Workshop at UCA
• January 23th Pizza-Bash II at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda

FOSS Past Activities

• December 19th Pizza Bash at ISI Managua
• September 26th Ubuntu Barcamp 1.5
  • Drinker
• September 20th Software Freedom Day Nicaragua 2008 at UCA
  • Staff - Coordinate the conference area.
    • One of the best event world wide!
• August 14th Dia Debian 2008 at UNI-IES
  • Provide a projector
• June 20th openSUSE day at UNICIT
  • Support
• June 14th Mandriva Install Party 2008 at UNI-IES
  • Support
  • Provide Projector
• June 13th Ubuntu Translation Sprint at ISI
  • Translator - 84 strings
• June 12th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
  • Speach
  • Provide Projector
• June 5th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
  • Provide a projector
• June 4th to 6th Feria Tecnologica at UNAN-Managua
  • Support
• May 23th Linux Tour at ISI Managua
  • Support
• April 26th FLISOL 2008 at UNAN
  • Registration Desk

Publications

• Article: Software Freedom at Nicaragua at Observador Economico Magazine online version (spanish)