Next month in Spain will be celebrated a meeting about Free Software and Joomla. It will show how free software can contribute to economic growth.
Several meetings that take place every year in Spain on free software. Two of them, to be held simultaneously, will open the fall, the second edition of the Luso Hispanic Congress of Free Software and the Joomla! Day Spain 2013. Albacete will be on 27 and 28 September. Albacete is in the east, and a little bit to the south, of Spain.
Feria Albacete, Albacete, Southeastern Spain, by TerceraFundacion, atflickr.com
One of the organizers and president of the association Open Source Iberia, Pedro Vidal, has explained in RTVE.es that the purpose of the meetings, and to bring together developers and users of free software programs and Joomla aims to train attendees with workshops practical experiences and connect entrepreneurs and programmers.
Joomla is a CMS platform (Content Managament System), ie, a software platform for publishing digital content, which is free and open source. It was created in 2005 and eight years later, according to the website of Joomla, the 2.8% of internet works with this software that is distributed under the GNU / GPL, ie you can copy, distribute and modify under a set of terms and conditions.
Volunteers from all over the world contribute to improve and evolve the code based on this guide for developers who are starting or have advanced knowledge and want to contribute selflessly to the project.
The software is now in its seventh version, the 3.5 and is scheduled to take eighth this year, which runs until 2015. With Joomla websites have been built football teams like Getafe, Villarreal and Sporting of Gijon; also the Guggenheim Museum website, the one of the Autonomous University of Barcelona or the group Gorillaz.
In Spain there is a strong community of people who support the platform, as indicated by Vidal, who pointed reference to the digital magazine which dumped all kinds of resources and articles in Castilian.
Although there is freedom to contribute to the project, Joomla is oriented from a management team and the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters, a non-profit organization was established to provide, legal and financial support to Joomla. It is funded through donations and support partnerships, retain copyrights and trademarks, etc..
In leading the project team, made up of ten people, is the Seville Telecommunications Engineer, Isidro Baquero, who began collaborating in 2010 and moderates the Spanish forum where we talk about Joomla, among other tasks. Another spanish highlight is Javier Gomez, who was a member of Open Source Matters and is now helping to bring the CMS in schools of USA.
In September several characters of free software will come to Albacete to discuss the new mobile operating system open source Firefox OS, Android, Google's operating system, is also open-source, Noodle, Linux products, responsive design and other CMS Joomla as well as Drupal or Wordpress.
"We approached the conference from the point of view of generating wealth, and that is emitted by streaming and videos are hung on the website later. Teach in workshops to improve the ranking of web pages and manage content to be more attractive. Whether you are a small entrepreneur can find a mirror to look at you”, told Vidal.
They offer two types of tickets for the meeting, one euro for unemployed people, 25 euros for students and freelancers, and even normal ticket 70 euros for those who want to attend the lectures and / or workshops.
I hope that you think it is interesting and go there if you can.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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