I was invited to give a talk at “Universidad del Mayab”, a subsidiary of Universidad Anáhuac. I saw several posters such as this one. It’s hard not to freak out…
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I was invited to give a talk at “Universidad del Mayab”, a subsidiary of Universidad Anáhuac. I saw several posters such as this one. It’s hard not to freak out…
Last Saturday, I was invited to talk about Debian to Hackerspace DF, a group that is starting to work at a very nice place together with other collectives, in a quite centric place (Colonia Obrera). I know several of the people in the group (visited them a couple of times in the space’s previous incarnation), and wish them great luck in this new hackerspace! Anyway — I was invited to give an informal talk about Debian. And of course, I was there. And so was Alfredo, who recorded (most of) it. So, in case you want to see me talking...
Excuse me for the rush and lack of organization… But this kind of things don’t always allow for proper planning. So, please bear with my chaos ;-) What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Yet another secretely negotiated international agreement that, among many chapters, aims at pushing a free-market based economy, as defined by a very select few — Most important to me, and to many of my readers: It includes important chapters on intellectual property and online rights. Hundreds of thousands of us along the world took part in different ways on the (online and “meat-space”) demonstrations against the SOPA/PIPA laws...
Hace unas semanas publicamos una entrevista con Edgardo Torres Caballero, gerente general en América Latina, Caribe y Portugal de Scytl, quien nos habló acerca de los beneficios del voto electrónico y de su adopción en la región. Sin embargo, en OhMyGeek! recibimos un “derecho de respuesta” de Gunnar Wolf, académico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, y desarrollador de software libre. Según Wolf, es de esperar que personeros de empresas de tecnología para la automatización electoral pinten una realidad tan perfecta del voto electrónico. Sin embargo, el académico comenta que, durante su trayectoria, no ha encontrado a ningún experto en...
(actually, please set your calendars to the day before yesterday — I had a mental tab on this, but it seems watching mental tabs is a low-priority task for brain.sched) Ten years ago today, I got that long awaited mail telling me I had passed all of the needed hurdles and was accepted as a Debian Developer. We were at the first third of a very long release cycle, and the general spirit of the project was clearly younger — both as in “things moved easier” and “we were much more immature” — Try to follow the mailing list discussions...
A colleague of mine at Facultad de Ingeniería pointed me to a note published in the Faculty’s gazette about a short cycle of talks we had on April 4th, trying to get life and interest back in the once-active LIDSOL (Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo en Software Libre, Free Software Research and Development Laboratory), which nowadays lies mostly dormant. Good thing the official communication channels got notice of this! Only I am not sure if they can properly produce Spanish (as this feels more like an English redaction). Quoting only the first lines of the paragraph that referes to me:...
Hey, Mexican hackers! If anybody is interested in holding a small Free Software-related meeting (say, with up to 10-15 people) in the South of Mexico City, please tell me — We have adapted a nice room at our house where we want to invite people to come and do activities — Courses, meetings, whatever. It is not very big (~5×5 meters), but it has all of the needed amenities (some chairs, a projector, coffee-related amenities, and is very conveniently located). We are not charging for hosting your activities (but will of course want to schedule it beforehand with you). So,...
En el número de agosto del 2012 de Software Gurú, Ignacio Cabral Perdomo presentó un interesante artículo titulado «Enseñando a niños a programar: ¿Imposible o una oportunidad?». La respuesta me parece clarísima: Claro que se puede. Esto viene siendo demostrado, con gran éxito, desde los 1960s, empleando el lenguaje BASIC diseñado por Kemeny y Kurtz, y muy particularmente con el lenguaje Logo, conocido principalmente gracias al trabajo de uno de sus autores, Seymour Papert. El origen del planteamiento de estas tempranas experiencias, sin embargo, me parece radicalmente diferente del planteamiento de Ignacio — Y los argumentos, tanto hace 40 o...
Aaron Swartz, el acceso abierto y los estándares Estoy seguro que la mayor parte de nuestros lectores estarán ya familiarizados con Aaron Swartz, así como del triste desenlace que tuvo su historia. En todo caso, hagamos un corto recuento antes de entrar en materia. 1 Aaron Swartz, breve reseña Aaron Swartz fue un jóven entusiasta de la programación, firme creyente de la necesidad de la libre circulación de la información. Su vida tiene muchos momentos dignos de nota; los puntos más relevantes incluyen: Participó en la creación de la especificación RSS 1.0 (W3C RFC 3870) a los 14 años de...
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