LinuxJournal: How I Spent my Summer Vacation Bringing Linux to Nicaragua

Nicaragua.

Not exactly the country most people think to look when they want
to get a Linux job. This is the reason that I was so confused when
I saw the job posting. I was on my way to class, like any other
day, when I saw a piece of paper taped to the wall. It wasn’t by a
bulletin board or anything, just randomly taped to the wall. After
reading over it, I realized that I fit the description of who the
company was looking for almost perfectly. I had been through a lot
of Spanish training, spent a good long while using Linux–I’d even
been using SuSE for two years, the distribution with which the
company is doing everything at the moment.

I promptly e-mailed the listed address, and after about a week’s
worth of conversation, it was agreed that I would be a good fit for
the job. So, here I am, in Estelí, Nicaragua. Why would
Estelí need a Linux geek? Simple. Many people use computers
down here. Whether it’s in their offices, or when they go to an
internet café, there are quite a few computer users.

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