Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 57

Photo by El Pop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_pop/7940688726/in/set-72157631429617966

While it is true that there are many non-technical areas where you can contribute to help Debian grow, fact is how to create a Debian package is a recurring question among people interested in getting into Debian. In this talk/tutorial we will see the basic points of packaging, understanding how to build a simple package. Points to cover: What is a package?What is apt's role? And dpkg's?What do I need in order to create a simple package?Dependencies, recommendations, and everything that surrounds it If we have enough time, I’d like to touch some points on team maintainership (keeping packages in...

At COSIT 2012, Coatzacoalcos. Photo by El Pop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_pop/7940700958/in/set-72157631429617966

At COSIT, Coatzacoalcos, 2011 Photo by El Pop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_pop/7940694142/in/set-72157631429617966

“Pulque”: Traditional fermented drink, original from the central Mexican highlands. What a better place can you find for a “pulquería” than… Just below an Alcoholics Anonymous center?

México es un país que, a lo largo de su historia, ha sufrido fraudes y otros malos manejos electorales, por medio de diferentes esquemas. Los mexicanos frecuentemente nos sentimos autoridades mundiales en este tema; la constante respecto a nuestras autoridades electorales ha sido más de duda y cuestionamiento que de confianza. Hubo un breve periodo, los últimos años de la década de los 1990 y los primeros de los 2000, en que parecía que se consolidaba una institución sólida y confiable, pero las dudas –fundadas o no– que surgieron tras la elección del 2006 devolvieron a las autoridades electorales a...

CURP: Clave Única del Registro Poblacional, or Unique Population Registry Code. This is a (hopefully) unique, 18 character long, string identifying each Mexican - I won’t get into the technicalities, but serve yourselves. By following such a convoluted scheme, the authorities should have ensured a biunivocal relation between each person and their CURP number. Well, at some point, due to a bureaucratical mishap completely outside my hands (my patron registered me with the wrong birth date, as you can see in the page at the bottom), I got two CURPs - And the procedure to fix it was far from...

Panama just underwent a nasty e-voting exercise: Electronic-mediated elections were held for the committee of the PRD party. It sounds simple - Even trivial! There were only 4100 authorized voters, it was geographically trivial (all set inside a stadium)… But it blew up in smoke. I won’t reiterate all what happened, I’ll rather direct you to our project’s (the e-voting observatorium) page: News regarding Panama (for those coming from the future, search starting at 2012-08-27 — and yes, it’s all in Spanish, but there are free-as-in-beer translation services. Many e-vote proponents/sellers/pushers were very eagerly waiting for this election to brag...

What, haven’t you heard about the WikiLovesMonuments photo contest around cultural heritage? Copying from its web page, Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest around cultural heritage monuments in September. Starting from the Netherlands in 2010 and organized on a European level in 2011, we go global in 2012! I heard about this initiative in Iván Martínez’s Wikimedia talk at COSIT 2012, held last week in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz (I intend to write a bit more regarding COSIT later on). I loved the idea, and intend to participate — Not because I take great pictures (I don’t, and I usually...

Sometimes, very rarely, I am happy that the spam filters in my personal mail server are so far from perfect. Many of us were amazed, some days ago, news broke that Amelia Earhart’s plane was found in the Southwestern Pacific. The news is amazing and worthy in itself. But today, I got this mail, proof that Amelia lived through all those years: (all addresses obscured, of course) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:38:59 -0700 From: Amelia Earhart <some-mail@gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Hello Reply-To: some-other-mail@live.com Hello friend, With due respect to humanity, i am compelled to write to you on...