Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 68

December 2007

Before Goran Bregović’s concert, Mexico DF, April 2009

My friend Al shows his joy at Goran Bregović’s concert, Mexico City, April 2009

<p>Diversas personas me han preguntado qué certificaciones deberían buscar para afianzar su carrera o posición, o por otro lado, cuál conviene a una empresa buscar en un prospecto de contratación. Me llama la atención principalmente el que asuman la respuesta a un cuestionamiento previo y condicionante a éste: ¿Vale la pena buscar certificaciones? Esta pregunta me puso a pensar en lo relativo a quién las pide (tanto desde el punto de vista del individuo que las persigue como del contratante que las valúa); dado el público alcanzado por esta revista, creo que puede ser de interés enfocar la columna hacia...

I recently started getting mails from no-reply@joindiaspora.com. Usually, a mail from no-reply@whatever is enough to make me believe that the admins of said whatever are clueless regarding what e-mail means and how should it work. And in this case, it really amazes me — If I get an invite to Diaspora*, right, I should not pester a hypothetical sysadmin@joindiaspora.com to get me off his list, but I should be able to reply to the person mailing me — Maybe requesting extra details on what he is inviting me to, or allowing me to tell him why I’m not interested. But...

This is an update to my last post regarding the «Construcción Colaborativa del Conocimiento» book. The book is, as we have repeatedly stated, available online for download — Both as a full PDF or chapter by chapter. In the website you will also find videos of all of the conferences held. But holding a printed book in your hands is just a different experience, isn’t it? :-) Anyway, I said I would give here an update on how to get your hands on it. The main venue would be through my University’s e-store. I recommend it to anybody interested in...

Finally! Last Friday, after two years worth of work, I finally got the first box of books for the Construcción Colaborativa del Conocimiento (Collaborative Knowledge Construction) project I worked on as a coordinator together with Alejandro Miranda (pooka), and together with a large group of 11 authors: Translating over from the back cover text (and this is just a quick translation from me — It reads better in Spanish ;-) ): What defines us as humans is our ability, on one side, to create knowledge, and on the other, to share or communicate it with our neighbors. Both features have...

Free Software is a social movement which brings back knowledge production to how it has worked since the beginning of human history. We go through some examples of how information has been shared, along with specialization in the ways of doing so, to see why code is basically speech. Attachments Presentación “Ciencia, Tecnología, Sustentabilidad y ¿Software Libre?” (fuentes en LaTeX Beamer) (2611 KB) Presentación “Ciencia, Tecnología, Sustentabilidad y ¿Software Libre?” (PDF) (2858 KB) Comments gwolf 2011-10-20 16:35:24 Me da gusto :) Desde la parte frontal del auditorio también la sentí fluída. Lo cual hasta resulta curioso, porque es la primera...

There’s something brewing, moving in Jalisco (a state in Mexico’s West, where our second largest city, Guadalajara, is located). And it seems we have an opportunity to participate, hopefully to be taken into account for the future. Ten days ago, I was contacted by phone by the staff of UDG Noticias, for an interview on the Universidad de Guadalajara radio station. The topic? Electronic voting. If you are interested in what I said there, you can get the interview from my webpage. I held some e-mail contact with the interviewer, and during the past few days, he sent me some...