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The Central American Free Software Encounter was held in June 17-21 2009, in Estelí, Nicaragua. Great

June 5, 2009

I was sent to Nicaragua by the Cofradía community, and I want to somehow pay back this very nice sponsorship. I approached the organizers and offered to set up video streaming for the Encounter - The idea was most welcome, and it is basically ready to go live now. Please look at the ECSL activities - We will stream activities held at the main (Villa Vieja) auditorium. Remember that Nicaragua is in GMT-6. The stream will be available at http://video.cofradia.org:18000/ecsl.ogg Now, once all attendees arrive tomorrow, it is very probable the available bandwidth will not be enough, even having our...

Ufff… I have spent a couple of hours connected from Norman García’s house, in Managua. Norman is most kindly hosting me at home for a couple of days before we leave (tomorrow) for Estelí, where the Central American Free Software Encounter will be held. Now, the network feels really slow. However, it can sustain download rates of around 512Kbps, quite acceptable. Latency is what kills. But… I was stunned with mtr’s results to my home server: Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev speedtouch.lan 0.0% 16 101.1 51.0 3.2 101.1 32.2 1-0-212-190.enitel.net.ni 12.5% 16 210.6 156.3 21.4 376.4 91.7...

Yay! Yes, I know I had already said I would be travelling next week to the Central American Free Software Encounter. However, I was close to not making it. I had got a sponsor for the plane ticket, and counted on it. However, in a depressed economy, you cannot count on anything… Least of all on a company being able to give you money for nothing. On Wednesday, I was informed I… would not be getting the money. And although a Mexico-Nicaragua-Mexico flight is not too expensive (I got it for US$330 with TACA), it is bad to suddenly understand...

Caro says hi! (yes, probably you will need some context… or much more than that ;-) Anyway, Churro, you were a recurring item at our talk today) Comments 2009-06-12 10:12:58 Será Posible Semi paradojico, es extremadamente raro ver al Churro con una expresión de felicidad :P, pero ya tiene un lugar donde ir a mostrar una sonrisa :) 2009-06-12 18:01:15 berrinche ¿Con qué derecho? ¿eh? ¿eh? (Churro, a mí me dijeron que te haríamos un homenaje… pero era una trampa)… lo peor es que es muy probable que este comentario ni se publique porque ese captcha es para el mismo...

Having recently become an Unicode (ab)user, in great part due to Kragen’s .XCompose, I took again the mission to convince people that resistance is futile, you will be assimilated into the multilingual world of UTF8… …And given the recent thread in debian-devel regarding how a globbing or similar functionality should be implemented (specifically, given Giacomo’s message pointing out that our beloved «/» directory separator is subject to the locale rules)… I cannot help but to send you to this old piece of MSDN beauty: When is a backslash not a backslash? In short: If you are surprised because in East...

Three weeks ago, 23 year old Liliana Castillo, student of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at UNAM was killed while driving her bycicle, at the Avenida Universidad and Real de Mayorazgo corner, in Mexico City, less than 3Km north from my house (and from the University). I have crossed that spot several times, also driving my bike. It is not a corner where you would expect a careless, speeding driver coming out of nowhere and killing a girl, a student, an artist. I am reproducing this letter, that is being passed around in the University. I will surely be...

Next to my usual bike, for comparison