Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 47

In Desierto de los Leones, with (obviously!) Regina, October 2012.

Six cats mish-mashed together as a single furry body? Must be that winter is coming!

For many years, I have aspired being a university teacher. I remember asking at different universities as early as ten years ago — But I didn’t have the needed papers. And yes, I have been a “Licenciado en Ingeniería en Software” for one year already. Anyway, I won’t go into the details on why I didn’t do this earlier on. But this time, I did get my act together in time, and by mid October, I contacted Juan Carreón, an enthusiastic teacher I met a long time ago as he helped a lot for the formation and cohesion of the...

I was invited to give this talk at the Cultural and Artistic Interchange Festival (FINCA) at the National School for Plastic Arts (ENAP) at UNAM. In this talk I try to present to plastic artists and graphical designers, through my experience with free software, how permissive licensing models are permeating all cultural expressions, and how they can (and why should they!) get on this and be a part of it, rather than looking at it with distrust. Attachments Fuentes de la presentación (emacs-org) (3372 KB) Presentación que utilicé (PDF) (4028 KB)

Throughout the years, since the Internet was opened for commercial use in the mid-1990s (and gave way for the bulk of the population to start using the network, leading to the massification towards the end of the decade) the notion that the cyberspace is a bold new free space, without rules or regulations, ruled for some time. In those years it was common to refer to the Internet as to a «Wild West» where anybody could do whatever they pleased. Little by little, that apparent lack of laws started to change, be it as laws usually applied to other scopes...

For the last couple of years, one of the topics I have tackled with several columns and a couple of articles published, several presentations on conferences and many comments wherever I can is raising awareness on why security experts around the world oppose electronic voting. Slightly over a year ago, I started gathering all the published news (in Spanish, with some notes in English if I feel them relevant enough) that came to my greedy hands and archiving them, categorized as well as I could, into what I came to call an Electronic voting observatory. I don’t feed it with...

Encuentro Centroamericano de Software Libre! Guatemala! During a national (for us) holiday, so it’s easy to go without missing too much work time! How would I miss the opportunity? Several years ago, I started playing with the idea of having a road trip… Probably this was first prompted with the UK crew and the Three Intrepid Motorcycle Riders arriving by land to DebConf 9 — I don’t know. Fact is, I wanted to go to DebConf10 in New York by land, as well as to DebConf12 in Nicaragua. Mostly due to a lack of time, I didn’t — Although we...

In San Cristobal de las Casas

…By night