From wednesday July 21st to friday 23rd, at the University of Costa Rica at Puntarenas, more than a hundred advocates and people linked to free software comunities from Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as guests from Mexico and Germany, attended the 2nd Central American Free Software Meeting <http://ecsl2010.softwarelibre.ca>
This was the second edition of this meeting that had it's start at Esteli, Nicaragua on 2009. For three days, people linked to the Software Libre Centroamérica (SLCA) community worked together, coordinated future activities and shared ideas. This meeting is aimed to enforce agreements and ways to work as a group to ease free software advancement and development on the region. The schedule included diagnosis activities about the general situation of Free Software in Central America, working sessions on Business ventures, Women in Free Software, Public Policies and Education. Also, technical workshops were offered and a final declaration was written and aproved, to gather the agreements and working compromises for the next period. The final declaration of the 2010 ECSL (Declaración de Puntarenas) can be read following this link <http://ecsl2010.softwarelibre.ca/node/450>.
The local team for this 2nd ECSL has been supported by the University of Costa Rica <http://ucr.ac.cr/> and the National University (through it's project funded by UNDP and implemented by ProGesTIC <http://www.progestic.una.ac.cr/softlibre>). The activity's coordination is a result of the joint work of the UCR's Free Software Users Community (CSLUCR <http://www.softwarelibre.ucr.ac.cr/>), the SLCA community and the Costa Rican Free Software Network (RCSL <http://softwarelibrecr.org/>) with the following offices at University of Costa Rica: Social Action Vice-Rectory, Computing and Informatics School, Computing Center and the Pacific campus.