Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 133

My attention was just drawn (thanks, Txopi!), slightly less than two days before the kick-off date, that although we have advertised quite thoroughly how to participate in this Thursday’s EDUSOL Seminar session (didn’t you read about it already?) via the formal videoconferencing channels (wow, we have 14 videoconferencing rooms signed up, w00t!), we have not yet announced how to participate by following the Ogg stream and the IRC channel. So, please: Ogg streamConnect to http://seminario.edusol.info:18000/edusol.ogg.m3u. What to connect with? If you are a Linux user, just about any media player will do. If you are not, download the great VLC...

Yay! This blog post is not strictly speaking news anymore - But for those who don’t know it yet, three days ago Debian 5.0 «Lenny» was released, after 22 months of work (plus fun, plus flamewars, plus everything that makes a Free Software lover tick). And, of course, that makes us all very happy and proud. As always, upgrading is a breeze. Hats off specially to Wolfgang and everybody who worked towards the great release notes - No, it is not a simple task, by far. And I do feel ashamed I didn’t even beep that way :-( So, many...

It’s time to drive some buzz this way ;-) Although this post will only be a pointer towards the Spanish post I made on Planeta EDUSOL, for reasons soon to become obvious. In any case, the information I’m posting here is not exactly the same. Can you read Spanish? Please go on to the invitation for the first videoconference for the EDUSOL Seminar. This year, we the organizers of the On-line Encounter of Education and Free Software (EDUSOL) are aiming higher - we are not “just” having a two-week encounter at the end of the year - We are having...

I have spent a couple of days working into dh-make-drupal. Yes, you guessed right: An idea based on the wonderful dh-make-perl, but applied to the Drupal Content Management System. Drupal’s greatest strengths, IMHO, are: Drupal offers a huge number of modules and themesDrupal has an amazingly sane configuration handling, where -contrary to what usually happens in PHP-land and, in general, among webapps- you set up the code only at a single place, with only the site-specific configuration (usually a single file) handling all of the differences Yup, even though I am quite fond of its flexibility and power, I fell...

(Untranslatable, sorry) Thanks to Lumen (probably Mexico’s biggest office and art supplies shops) for the loud laugh. Attachments (376 KB) Comments kwame 2009-02-09 19:17:32 Hasta en estos días … Se ven archiveros mutantes. No cabe duda que estámos en los úlimos tiempos. Saludos! Kwame vicm3 2009-02-09 19:03:18 The more the merrier… And also the cheap, with more “cojones” :D

What is the one thing you really want early in the morning? Attachments (293 KB) Comments almost Anonymous 2009-02-10 20:12:07 a cup of delicious coffee? a cup of delicious coffee? no, that’s the second thing. maybe the third…

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Ted T’so wonders about the LUGs over the world, seeking to answer a conversation he recently had at the Linux Foundation. He quotes a blog posting in Lenovo, “Local User Groups - gone the way of the dinosaur?”. I think this is an interesting point to gather input from others. In Mexico City, we did have a strong LUG several years ago, holding not-very-regular-but-good-quality-wise meetings, roughly monthly, at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares. I was active there ~1996-2001. By 2001, however, the group stopped acting as one - Maybe one of the main factors is that we had a very strong,...