Asturix has been selected as one of the twenty projects to be presented at the Forum for Innovation Projects of the Europe Campus Party.

This is further recognition of an innovative and very special project that seeks to bring free software to the general public and aims to be more than another Linux distribution. It now has five versions and is fast becoming one of the most popular in the world as can be seen from Distrowatch's popularity list; since it entered the list ten days ago, it has risen steadily (and now occupies position 133).The project, free and open to everyone, continues ro advance thanks to its founder, Luis Ivan Cuende with the driving force and collaboration of the Asturix Development Team and is gaining success and fame specially outside Asturias. Asturix Store, is now a reality, and, with the collaboration in CADI with Kademar as well as the ambitious website compiler being developed, Asturix is today a project with an excellent infrastructure. It has a unique projection in the free software world where any developer, documenter or user, etc., can participate, showing one of the greatest advantages of free software, namely, the ability of anyone to make their contribution. Next Thursday 15th at 17.30 the project will be presented by Luis Ivan Cuende in Madrid, on stage at the Forum's Innovation Campus Party Europe in the "Magic Box." The full email message received from the organization is posted below.

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Subject: Finalist Project in the Campus Party Europe projects Forum
Date: Sun, April 11, 2010 14:00:42 +0200

Dear Luis,

We are pleased to inform you that your project Asturix "has been one of the twenty selected to be presented at the Campus Party Europe Innovation Projects Forum.

The activity will be held on April 15 at 17:30 hours in on the Innovation Area Platform.

You will be given 5 minutes to present your project whichever way you prefer, by means of a demonstration or a presentation. The area will be equipped with computer and projector screen, which you can use to support your presentation with visual elements.

After the presentations, a question time will be held when the judges can examine the project in greater depth.

The winner of the Projects Forum will be awarded a prize of 3,000 Euros and its founder will be invited by the European Commission to attend the ICT 2010 to be held in Brussels in September.

Congratulations and we wish you the best of luck in your presentation. If you have any questions write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Regards,

Enrique Nimo
Director of CP Europe