Debian: Bits From Argentina - August 2025

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DebConf26 is already in the air in Argentina. Organizing DebConf26 give us the opportunity to talk about Debian in our country again. This is not the first time that Debian has come here, previously Argentina has hosted DebConf 8 in Mar del Plata.

In August, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings and Stefano Rivera from DebConf Committee visited the venue where the next DebConf will take place. They came to Argentina in order to see what it is like to travel from Buenos Aires to Santa Fe (the venue of the next DebConf). In addition, they were able to observe the layout and size of the classrooms and halls, as well as the infrastructure available at the venue, which will be useful for the Video Team.

But before going to Santa Fe, on the August 27th, we organized a meetup in Buenos Aires at GCoop, where we hosted some talks:

• ¿Qué es Debian? - Pablo Gonzalez (sultanovich) / Emmanuel Arias
• Cooperativismo y Software Libre - Osiux (gcoop)
• Debian and DebConf (Stefano Rivera)

On August 28th, we had the opportunity to get to know the Venue. We walked around the city and, obviously, sampled some of the beers from Santa Fe.

On August 29th we met with representatives of the University and local government who were all very supportive. We are very grateful to them for opening their doors to DebConf.

In the afternoon we met some of the local free software community at an event we held in ATE Santa Fe. The event included several talks:

• ¿Qué es Debian? - Pablo (sultanovich) / E...

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