Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 162

For some days at Debconf, I’ve been somewhat stressed and frustrated. You see, the first DebCamp/DebConf I took part in (Oslo), I was really productive - Besides meeting lots and lots of people and having a great time, during DebConf3 I learnt a scary lot about the project in many aspects and, although I was already a DD, it really decided me to get more involved. When we were at Brazil, I had a great time as well, but (code-wise, bugs-wise and so on) I was much less productive - I started peeking at the processes that involve running such...

Yesterday and today, I’ve spent most of the time sitting next to Damián Viano (des), feeling 1337 because we are doing exactly the heavily recommended pair-programming thingy with a Rails application that everybody in Debconf is familiar with: We are adding some stuff for our beloved video-team in Pentabarf! Now, Pentabarf is -as we were trying to explain earlier on, amidst angst and frustration- a strange beast: It looks like your regular Rails app. It smells like Rails. But it tastes like Java. For some reason, the Pentabarf author (who I sincerely expect to meet soon - yes, he is...

Ok, so here am I, just arrived to Debconf, surrounded by tens -soon to be hundreds- of Debianers. A big YAY! :D Comments Taur 2007-06-12 10:34:08 Re: Arrived! Que envidia :(, diviertete en mi nombre!!! :D Por cierto.. el próximo año.. me llevas contigo?? jejejejeje Saludos ;)

Yesterday we had one of our first full-evening rains of this Summer. It started raining around 15:00, and didn’t really stop until past 22:00. Most of the time, it was a low intensity rain. Also yesterday, Sergio and I started with the Debian course I recently talked about - Fun!Now… This course is scheduled at Instituto de Astronomía, which is halfway between my work and my home. 19:00 to 21:00.I decided to leave early, so we could check some pending details - At 18:00. I biked to Astronomía, about 1.5km. When I arrived, I was as wet as you usually...

At my Institute, we get the El Financiero newspaper - I like it quite a bit. It’s very well balanced, with opinions from all of the political and economical points of view. Of course, it has huge business and market sections which I don’t usually even care on looking at, as I won’t understand much anyway. Those sections usually include advertisements for potential courses and businesses.Today, Nadezhda showed me an ad that’s just beautiful - It shows off the level of commitment and seriousness a company has. It is so beautiful that it deserves me copying it in Spanish and...

Thanks to Planeta Debian (yes, planeta, the Spanish version of Planet Debian), I came across this Darío Rapisardi’s post. Sometimes poetry can be expressed in human-interface guidelines.

A long time ago, I wrote the system that still manages the Cuerpo Académico Historia del Presente group in the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Yes, I’m happy a good portion of my project, which took me over a year of work… But I must admit a nice deal of shame as well. Of course, it comes from not properly understanding the domain data and information volume my system would be working with - and coming up with a stupid way to implement searches. I won’t get too much in detail because, even if you had access to the full search facility...

After a long time talking this as a mere potential would-be-nice thing, finally we are putting some action behind our words: One week from now, Sergio Mendoza and I will start a ~2 month long extracurricular course on Debian. The students? We have 12 students of the Facultad de Ciencias at my University. The students are pre- and post-graduate (licenciatura and maestría), from the Phsyics and Astronomy areas. Sergio got this group as he is a teacher and researcher at Instituto de Astronomía. While this first iteration is completely extra-curricular, unofficial and by invitation only, we expect this pilot course...

Scott complains on how Linux Format #93’s articles comparing Ubuntu and other distributions often contradict each other, and blames it on the lack of any editorial direction or basic research. I… Have to confirm this. But anyway, I can stand a bit on the different writers’ side - Each article is written by a different person and, although the magazine must try to be coherent (of course, within certain limits - if the magazine suggests editor’s picks in one article, they should not bash them to death in the next one). I write the Linux column in the Spanish edition...

I did it. We did it. The whole lot of us did it. And we liked it. In fact, we loved it. Today, Spencer Tunick held his long awaited <a href=http://spencertunickmexico.unam.mx/”>session in Mexico City</a>. I signed up a long time ago, yet could not believe this was really going to happen - And man, did it happen! For those still wondering who is Tunick (lazy you, as with the first link, it becomes just obvious), he is an artist who enjoys gathering large crowds, getting them all naked, and photographing them. Some people (including me, until this morning) erroneously categorize...