As Linux continues to beat the pants off of Windows in other parts of the world, a group of Linux lovers went to Interamerican University of Puerto Rico in order to open up the SNAP Development Center. The project is designed to help people in Puerto Rico to become more familiar with Linux as an alternative to Windows.

It took them about six months to get everything ready, but finally they were ready to kick off a successful Linux InstallFest for the people! I think this is super cool. It allows people to experience the OS in a non-threating, non-intimidating environment.

My colleagues and I came to the Bayamón campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico earlier this year to open the SNAP Development Center. Subtitled the “Open Source Laboratory of Interamerican University of Puerto Rico”, our vision is to “create a thriving open-source software project within a university setting that will significantly impact the Puerto Rico software industry, generating new opportunities for economic development.”

It’s not easy when you’re the only ones around promoting and using Linux and open-source software, and it had been lonely while we launched our Open Source Laboratory. But now, after six months of work, we finally were ready to change things–we were ready to kick off our first Linux installfest.