The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GNOME</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
GUADEC Core<br />
Keynote:<br />
Big <strong>GNOME</strong> Deployments:<br />
the GnuLinEx and Guadalinex Use Cases<br />
Extremadura's Information Society strategic project is<br />
founded on the fundamental principles of connectivity and<br />
technological literacy. Its aim is to improve Extremadura<br />
citizens' quality of life, from a perspective of equality and<br />
freedom. Thus, some actions have been carried out in<br />
Extremadura that have lead to the development of a<br />
powerful communications network (the Regional Intranet),<br />
capable of interconnecting as many as 1,400 nodes,<br />
scattered all over the 383 municipalities of Extremadura.<br />
In addition, several projects are currently working to achieve both educational and<br />
socio-economic goals. This has lead to the design and implementation of the following<br />
networks and centers: an Educational Technological Network, a Digital Literacy Plan,<br />
New Centres of Knowledge, Vivernet or the breeding ground for IT-related business,<br />
and a Centre for the Promotion of New Initiatives. <strong>The</strong>se form the background for the<br />
GNU/LinEx project (Programas Libres - Free Software), which was born as a way to<br />
satisfy our region's IT-related needs without having to depend on outside factors that<br />
are out of the reach of the public sector (such as proprietary software).<br />
This year we have reached GNU/LinEx <strong>2006</strong>, a Debian Derivative distribution based on<br />
<strong>GNOME</strong> and installed on more than 70,000 PCs in the region.<br />
In this talk we are going to talk about problems and innovations in this big installation<br />
with the <strong>GNOME</strong> project and Free Softwar<br />
José Ángel Díaz<br />
Tue 27 18:00<br />
1. Carpa<br />
Keynote<br />
José Ángel Díaz has been the chief manager of the Digital Literacy Plan<br />
since 2000 in the Junta of Extremadura and AUPEX. His work in the team<br />
of gnu/LinEx started with the launch of the first version of gnu/LinEx in<br />
January 2002. He was the mantainer of the gnu/LinEx live. He currently<br />
presides at the association <strong>GNOME</strong> Hispano and is part of the gnu/LinEx<br />
team.<br />
José had his first computer at the age of eight. He is an addict of<br />
computer science and a user of the Slackware's first versions. He now<br />
resides in a beautiful city called Almendralejo in the south of<br />
Extremadura and is a lover of Debian, gnu/LinEx, and <strong>GNOME</strong>, where he<br />
has a lot of good friends.<br />
June 24–30, <strong>2006</strong> • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 41
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