Hi there 
! We have some exciting news to share.
Last April’s week we went to the first ever international Free Software conference in Cuba: CubaConf 2016. We joined about 200 persons from 17 countries for three days of keynotes, unconferences, workshops, hackathons, lightning (5 minutes) talks and coffee, a lot of coffee. At the end of the days we had really fine meals, and the last day we also enjoyed mojitos.
The event was organized by Grupo de Usuarios de Tecnologías Libres (GUTL) from Cuba and Best of OpenSource Technologies (BooT ev) from Germany. And we were not just a bunch of nerds talking about computers. No way! There were people from other fields like Culture, Social Sciences and Health talking as well about how they use Free Software on their day to day work.
The program covered a wide range of topics like programming, high availability systems architecture, network privacy and anonymity, cryptography, free culture, free society, and last but not least, women inclusion in the free software movement, the challenges they face and how they fight for their rights. Among the speakers we had people from Debian, ThoughtWorks, Python Software Foundation, Netflix, and many other big players of the IT field.
We had the opportunity to give a lightning talk about Thunderbit. To our joy, some people approached us later asking for details of the project and giving us positive feedback. Thank you all!
We really had a great time and met a lot of amazing people. Now we are looking forward to a CubaConf 2017. Will you join us next time?