Projects


Oeste Digital Network (formely Caldas Rainha Network) is a local group in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, associate with Associação Oeste. The main goal of ODN is to promote the new technologies, organizing local events like Lan Parties, and helping other tech related projects with the needed infrastructure (eg. network).

Task: Open Source responsible; Network Systems with GNU/Linux Manager



The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. Here you can find and join a community of users and developers, who all have the same goal in mind — to create and distribute the world's most usable Linux.


Status: openSUSE Member


  • openSUSE Build Service - an open and complete distribution development platform that provides infrastructure for a development of the future openSUSE based distributions. It provides software developers with a tool to compile, release and publish their software for the broad user audience, including creation of their own Linux distribution based on openSUSE for various hardware architectures.


    Task: Packager (3rd KDE/Qt applications)

  • People of openSUSE - a project that provides openSUSE employees and community members' interviews on the openSUSE News portal.


    Task: Interviewer responsable

  • Portuguese openSUSE community - a community created on October 2005 to promote and spread openSUSE in Portugal and help Portuguese users through its forum and #openSUSE-pt IRC channel (Freenode)


    Task: User Support

  • Portuguese openSUSE localization - a localization team meant to translate the openSUSE distribution into Portuguese (Portugal). See Stats Information.


    Task: Translator

  • Official Portuguese openSUSE website - the official Portuguese openSUSE website gives users information about the distribution, provides HOWTOs, and documentation.


    Task: Coordinator and translator

  • ENOS - the acronym ENOS stands for 'Encontro Nacional de openSUSE', a Portuguese expression which can be translated to 'National openSUSE Meeting', an event meant to unite the Portuguese openSUSE users.
    The purpose of ENOS is to give an opportunity to the Portuguese openSUSE users to be together, as well as provide the participants an insight view on the latest developments on the openSUSE project and stimulate them to take an active part on the community itself.


    Task: Founder and organization staff responsible



GLUA (Grupo Linux da Universidade de Aveiro) is the University of Aveiro Linux User Group. GLUA provides students Linux support, and aims to promote the GNU/Linux operative system around the country, doing Linux Install Parties, and giving Open Source presentations.

The group is based at the 'Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática', room 124.


Task: GLUA Member



PINGUIX NETWORKS is an European web hosting company. Since 2004, the company has come growing more and more providing powerful services and the best customer support.
It provides the world's most usable programming languages and frameworks like PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby On Rails, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
With servers running GNU/Linux, with no bandwidth limits, and located in Europe, PINGUIX NETWORKS offers customers the lowest pings.


Task: Technical and Info department, PHP, and MySQL developer



Tellico is a KDE application for organizing your collections. It provides default templates for books, bibliographies, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, comic books, and wines.

Tellico allows you to enter your collection in a catalogue database, saving many different properties like title, author, etc. Two different views of your collection are shown. On the left, your entries are grouped together by any field you like, allowing you to see how many are in each group.


Task: Portuguese translator; some patches, and suggestions



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