Contact with Latinamerica

Hi,

My name is Christopher Díaz Riveros, I'm a software development student in Lima, Peru. For some time now I have been supporting my Linux community, Gentoo Linux, and I have discovered a wide world of possibilities in open source.

I tell you this because it has been so much benefit in my training as a a developer that I am determined to start a new community in my country to be able to make technology-related career students find an open source community in which they can learn to work and get the same positive effect that I have had on mine. I have already been talking to some teachers, I am about to begin my final year of studies in the institute, and they agree to start the community with students of the institution.

As one of the main problems when getting involved with a community here is the barrier of english language, and few are able to have fluent conversations in that language, as it is a bit intimidating for most to approach an open source community. My community hopes to get in touch with different open source projects throughout the world and seeks to be a midpoint to interact with young developers and communities.

Having said all this I have only to offer to your community, the availability of our community (we still do not have a definite name) and see if anyone is interested in supporting this group of developers here and with a bit of luck be able to turn it into a movement of all Latin America.

Thanks and any kind of feedback is welcome :) Christopher Diaz Riveros