Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 45

After my first full semester of classes, there is at least a little tangible evidence that I didn’t skip even one day of attendance.

Wouter still does not like the 3.0 (quilt) packaging format. And as he writes on his blog, I shall answer on mine. And what if one of the blogs becomes unreachable with time? Aha! That’s one of the weaknesses, Wouter, on yuor closing comment: I have all my packages stored in git with a proper Vcs-Git: header; if people really want to look at individual patches, they can just use debcheckout, kthxbye. I am aware this would not be so much of an argument, or so much of a change. But the way I view a shipped package is that...

Voto electrónico. La sociedad en general espera que nosotros los tecnólogos seamos los primeros en apoyarlo, sus principales promotores e impulsores. Lo que es más, por lo que he visto en diversos países… ¡Parece que la sociedad en general lo apoya! Pero… ¿Qué es lo que apoyan? Hablar del voto electrónico así, como de un bien abstracto, no nos aclara lo suficiente el panorama como para entender cuál es la motivación real — Cuál es el problema que plantea resolver, y por qué esa respuesta se antoja deseable para la sociedad de nuestros países. Y mientras resolvemos esa pregunta, probablemente...

Some weeks ago, I contacted Rosa Martínez, a tech journalist with some questions regarding what I regarded as a trick interview with an e-voting salesman. Well, not only she offered me to publish an answer to that interview, but she also offered me to write another article on a second site she also works with. So, I accepted. Being quite time-deprived, although I managed to send her the first answer quickly, by April 22, I only sent the second article yesterday night. Anyway, the links. The texts are published in Spanish: Lo que muchos no saben del voto electrónico —...

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...