Martin Abente Lahaye

I finished the engineering school at the Catholic University of Asunción on December 2008, since January 2009 I have been working for Paraguay Educa as the Chief of the development department (and its only member until today).

For more information about me and my career, please visit my personal blog [1], [2].

OLPC and Sugar

OLPC contributions

I have developed several applications for Paraguay Educa:

  • Inventario: Is an open source laptops inventory system specialized for OLPC deployments needs. It is currently being used by many deployments around the world [3], [4].
  • Yaas: Is an open source alternative for activations.laptop.org web application [5], [6].
  • A few others...

Sugar Contributions

My contributions to sugar include:

  • Support for 3G modems [7].
  • A couple bug fixes.

Dextrose Contributions

My contributions to Dextrose include [8]:

  • Journal Backup/restore to removable devices.
  • Journal Backup/restore to schoolserver.
  • Protected activities support
  • Many bug fixes.

Mistery and apparent randomness

The most frequent question I receive is: Why tch?

Answer: My name is Martin, in South America Martins are also called "Martincho" (mostly by family members) therefore others calls you "Tincho" and to keep getting it simpler just "tch".