Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 15

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I have left this blog to linger without much activity… My life has got quite a bit busy. So, I’ll try to put some life back here ☺ During the last trimester last year, I was invited as a distance professor to teach «Security in application development» in the «TUSL (Techical Universitary degree on Free Software)» short career taught by the online studies branch of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, based in Santa Fé, Argentina. The career is a three year long program that provides a facilitating, professional, terminal degree according to current Argentinian regulations (that demand people providing professional services...

I first bought a netbook shortly after the term was coined, in 2008. I got one of the original 8.9” Acer Aspire One. Around 2010, my Dell laptop was stolen, so the AAO ended up being my main computer at home — And my favorite computer for convenience, not just for when I needed to travel light. Back then, Regina used to work in a national park and had to cross her province (~6hr by a combination of buses) twice a week, so she had one as well. When she came to Mexico, she surely brought it along. Over the...

EDUSOL is back to life! The online encounter I started together with my friend Pooka twelve years ago (Encuentro en Línea de Educación y Software Libre, Online Encounter of Education and Free Software) was held annually, between 2005 and 2011 if I recall correctly. Then, it went mute on a six year hiatus. This year it came back to life. Congratulations, Pooka, Sheik and crew! Anyway, this is a multimodal online encounter — They managed to top the experience we had long time ago. As far as I can count, it now spans IRC, Telegram, Twitter, YouTube chat, plus a...

I am very, very, very happy to report this — And I cannot believe we have achieved this so fast: Back in June, I announced I’d start working on the translation of the Made with Creative Commons book into Spanish. Over the following few weeks, I worked out the most viable infrastructure, gathered input and commitments for help from a couple of friends, submitted my project for inclusion in the Hosted Weblate translations site (and got it approved!) Then, we quietly and slowly started working. Then, as it usually happens in late August, early September… The rush of the semester...

Hi friends, ~3hr ago, we just had a big earthquake, quite close to Mexico City. Fortunately, we are fine, as are (at least) most of our friends and family. Hopefully, all of them. But there are many (as in, tens) damaged or destroyed buildings; there have been over 50 deceased people, and numbers will surely rise until a good understanding of the event’s strength are evaluated. Mainly in these early hours after the quake, many people need to get in touch with their families and friends. There is a little help we can all provide: Provide communication. Open up your...

I came across a folder with the most unexpected treasure trove: The text for my first ever public speech! (and some related materials) In 1985, being nine years old, I went to the IDESE school, to learn Logo. I found my diploma over ten years ago and blogged about it in this same space. Of course, I don’t expect any of you to remember what I wrote twelve years ago about a (then) twenty years old piece of paper! I add to this very old stuff about Gunnar the four pages describing my game, Evitamono (“Avoid the monkey”, approximately). I...

An image speaks for a thousand words… And our translation project is worth several thousand words! I am very happy and surprised to say we have surpassed the 50% mark of the Made with Creative Commons translation project. We have translated 666 out of 1210 strings (yay for 3v1l numbers)! I have to really thank Weblate for hosting us and allowing for collaboration to happen there. And, of course, I have to thank the people that have jumped on board and helped the translation — We are over half way there! Lets keep pushing! PS - If you want to...

Ohai, I have recently started to serve as a Feature Editor for the ACM XRDS magazine. As such, I was also invited to post some general blog posts on XRDS blog — And I just started yesterday by posting about DebConf. I’m not going to pull (or mention) each of my posts in <a href=”https://gwolf.org/>my main blog</a>, nor will I syndicate it to Planet Debian (where most of my readership comes from), although I did add it to my dlvr.it account (that relays my posts to Twitter and Facebook, for those of you that care about said services). This mention...

I have been in Montreal only for a day. Yesterday night, I left DebConf just after I finished presenting the Continuous Key-Signing Party introduction to go out with a long-time friend from Mexico and his family. We went to the Mont Royal park, from where you can have a beautiful city view: What I was most amazed of as a Mexico City dweller is of the sky, of the air… Not just in this picture, but as we arrived, or later when a full moon rose. This city has beautiful air, and a very beautiful view. We later went for...