[Chicago] Pycon / Havana (hijacked GIL thread)

[Joshua Herman]

The best part is that we could get cuban hotel food!

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> This article finally mentions open source in the last two paragraphs:
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/09/02/cuba-usa-piracy-idUSN0222000820100902
>
> Of course there's nothing to stop not-USA hardware vendors from installing
> state of the art equipment at the University of Havana or even in someone's
> home.
>
> However, in a small island culture people gossip a lot and it's hard to keep
> any secrets from those playing a role in government, news travels fast.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7381646.stm
>
> The flow chart I'm looking at shows people smuggling in a lot of hardware,
> or just importing it in the clear.
>
> The lift on personal computer use and optical fiber from Venezuela suggests
> we could do a Pycon there in the pretty near future.
>
> By "we" I don't necessarily mean to include unfree USAers, political
> prisoners of their own laws in this case.
>
> Of course geeks are less unfree++ (double plus unfree) as they can post to
> servers in Cuba right now if they want to, via various proxies.  No
> problemo.
>
> Kirby
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Christian Long <christianzlong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/29/2011 5:00 AM, chicago-request at python.org wrote:
>>>
>>> Doesn't Cuba outlaw computers?
>>>
>>
>> The only computers allowed in private hands are those imported before the
>> revolution. Hence the "univaqueros" and their lovingly-tended machines. All
>> those tubes are hand-blown, due to the embargo.
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