 Hello. I'd like to welcome you all to this new DevConf, just starting now. I know some of you have been at DevCamp already and I'm about really just to say let's hand over to the local team but let's welcome them and thank them for all the work they've already done that you're going to be able to appreciate in the next few days. Hello, welcome to Manawa Nicaragua, bienvenidos. Welcome to DevConf 12. Your local team, we are Norman, Garcia, Felix, De Latre and Leo. Gomez. Gomez and yes. Hey, finally we are opening this event. Yes. It's great. We three are here for the local team but we are way more people really working on that so everybody who has like a red badge you should hug this people on this person please. Or a blue shirt. Or stand up please. Stand up local team. Okay, how is this working this way? Okay, so last year we were in Bosnia and started the organizing DevConf 12. These are some photos from previous DevConf. I don't know if Norman, do you want to tell something about the bit and the process or Leo? I want the bit. Oh yes. This whole thing started around 2008 I think when a friend of ours attended DevConf 8 in Bar del Plata. He came to Nicaragua and he was very very excited. He said, oh DevConf. It's so nice and so nice people but we will never have a DevConf in Central America. That will never happen. Never. This friend of ours is Rene Mayorga. Please Rene, eat your words. So we did a kind of warm up within 2009 with the Central American Meetup we had in Asteli. It was not a big event like DevConf but it was quite nice. We met Mr. Gunnar Wolf in Asteli and he told us he convinced us to do a mini DevConf in Central America. And so we did in Panama in 2010. Eibar, one of the organizers of the mini DevConf back then. So we went straight away for the big thing here in Nicaragua and yes we wanted to organize the DevConf conference so we started to work on the bit. We weren't able to travel to New York so Mr. Gunnar Wolf kindly presented our bit in New York. I don't know if he was very convinced that that was a good idea but so we started working with Norman and Felix and many other team members preparing the bit. Yes Rene. I think it's worth mentioning that the bit was a completely different proposal than what we are now. It's pretty funny so we really changed everything but I think to the better. Well you may remember in Bosnia last year they presented a video walking from the hotel to the venue. You may have noticed it doesn't look anything like that. If you go to Loma de Scapa and you see an ugly pyramid shape body of I don't know what that was to be the venue. We are everybody who's seen that is very happy that we're finally here at Uca. Not only are we saving money and getting a much nicer venue but well I mean it's all for the best. Generally as an experience I would say that organizing a Debcon for Nicaragua is hard because a lot of things that in other countries would be like usual or common to get can be difficult to get here or really expensive. But we have internet. We have a venue and we have one hotel. We have food. This is the map of Nicaragua. We are in Managua and the day trip is going to be to León which is close to the beach. Thank you Guna. Let's zoom into Managua. Okay zoom further please. Yes. This was when we got the bit or we got the decision from the bit and we're celebrating a little bit at this time and we will show you some photos about the local community here with activities we have done in the past and you might recognize some of the faces on the photos. Cheers. Okay this is the map of the venue. You might have seen it in the rooms. There's also marked the wine and cheese party, the two talks room, the buff room slash silent hack lab and the both food areas. You can reach us and discuss everything on IRC. I think this might be clear but just to repeat especially the two talk room channels which have been defined more generically and please please if you're not on the list, Debconf announce and Debconf discuss, get subscribed there. We really do the announcement there and think they reach everybody. So that's the URL for streaming. If somebody is looking at this from home they don't need the URL anymore. If you're watching it in Managua you don't need the URL anyway. It's on the website. It's on the main web page directly there's video streams. Yeah it's on the main web page there are two buttons to click on and if you are local here you get the local stream if you're external you get the internet stream. So important dates we have cheese and wine party it's cheese and wine not wine and cheese. So Monday is cheese and wine it's going to be at Cepress it's just 100 meters from here. On Tuesday we have the conference dinner it's going to be at Tisca Palagun very nice place I think. Yes and we will provide transportation to go there so be prepared to be ready on a certain hour we will announce through the list. And Wednesday we have the day trip we will be leaving Managua around nine o'clock I think and coming back at eight seven eight we're going to have a late dinner on Wednesday probably from May to ten. Yeah but we're going to announce it on the list also and key signing party we don't have a date yet. No no date yet. No. Well this time for key signing we really encourage you to engage in chat with people to actively get to know them to really be able to link their faces to their identities. So you have to sign a real a real personal connection and not just the checking of a national ID so chat with people you don't know ask for their documents if you believe in them and that's it there will be no centralized or there will be centralized. Okay but anyway there will be a centralized key signing party but anyway yeah make them informally first. Sorry for stepping into your talk to the microphone. Everything that Gunnar said was correct except for the part about there not being an event as well. So talk to each other meet each other get to know each other. But watch your back. Lunchtime from one to three o'clock in the afternoon dinner from seven to nine but the day trip the hour of for dinner is going to be extended from eight to ten and tomorrow afternoon the dinner is only from seven to eight so only one hour because afterwards we are going to the wine and cheese party. And we probably will change location of the of the dinner a launch place of dating place it's going to be 50 meters ahead it's on the map as you can check the map on the weekend. We still need more volunteers. The video team has another training session tomorrow morning at 11 it's scheduled in Penta if you forget the date and it will be held in the second hack lab at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning and thank you all for being helping the video team it's really needed still. The second hack lab is on the map it's in that direction it's 200 meters away. Okay front desk food and talk organization for front desk we need volunteers to manage everything which is on the front desk food it's like cleaning stuff getting everything ready please to all of you if there's no coffee help yourself get coffee in the machine water and everything else and talk organization just sign up on Penta to the to be a talkmeister on the on the talks. So we need to thank our sponsors. We are happy to thank our sponsors. First place University Central Americana the venue they are supporting a lot and they have done they are really flexible it's nice to be here we are really thankful to them. Second the government of Nicaragua at this are helping us a lot first with accommodation and then with a lot of small stuff like the day trip and among other things. Google is golden sponsor and arm HP Matanel Canonical and Evo's are silver sponsors. We all also thank our bronzer sponsors which are Gestman, Prophet Bricks, Simas, Tobi Churchill, Nexenta, Kulabora, Renesas and all the other small donators who either directly donated to Debconf or to Debian. Thank you all.