Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 92

It seems strange to me. I don’t think I know people as aware of internationalization issues as Bubulle, a.k.a. Christian PERRIER, and I have the feeling his last post regarding how he shall address himself is somewhat short-sighted. That might just mean I am in an even worse position. First, I recognize Christian’s concern, but not only when dealing with people from around the globe – It happens in my everyday life. When you show an ID stating Gunnar Eyal Wolf Iszaevich, the first reaction is a blank stare of disbelief, only to be followed by a question: So, what...

Quoting The Klezmatics: It’s everybody-else’s annual end-of-the-year-time holiday, the name of which respectfully we do not choose to say, but that does not prohibit us in any concievable way from wishing you a very merry everybody-else’s end-of-the-year-time holiday! In order to properly welcome this 2010 in a geeky fashion, I got the following wines to share with my friends: My last bottle of the now world-famous and limited edition Debian wine, from Extremadura Tempranillo grapes What is it like trying to coordinate a timely, predictable release? Why, yes, it has precisely been described as herding cats. And even better, the...

A nice, non-aggressive, brown-colored theme suitable for your siamese herding cats, courtesy of South African people trying to bring a better life to this world. Comments Nadezhda 2009-12-24 13:54:42 Mi Marita y una pata del Mi Marita y una pata del Gordupchic. :*

[Notice] Personal content follows. If you got to this post expecting any of the recurring topics I talk about in my blog, feel free to skip it. This is one of the topics I don’t like to share as impersonally as a blog post goes… But I know I will not be able to meet most of the people I care about that this will reach in person — And even if I did, it is not something easy to say. I have failed several times to communicate this to my closest friends. And if you are among the group...

NOTA: Al preparar este texto, excedí el límite de espacio que me asignan, por lo cual después de terminar de escribir tuve que ver qué párrafos eran más prescindibles. Acá reproduzco el artículo completo, y adjunto como archivo la versión tal cual apareció impresa. <p>Hace un par de días recibí uno de esos correos que parecen venir de una época ya superada y olvidada hace años: Un correo que comenzaba con la frase:</p> <blockquote>Para evitar problemas de compatibilidad, este correo no incluye acentos ni enies</blockquote> <p>En efecto, este problema casi ha desaparecido del correo, y ese pretexto sencillamente ya no...

My Debian QA page shows what I consider to be a huge amount of packages — I am currently uploader for 207 packages. Why so many? There are many factors — The main one is group maintenance (I’m directly responsible only for 19; of course, this should not mean I disregard the rest of them), the second one is regularity. By far, most of my source packages (177) match lib.*perl, followed by lib.*ruby with 20. Anyway — A strong factor that allows the pkg-perl group to be successful in maintaining 1411 packages is the regularity of the task: Packaging Perl...

Whew! Is it karma or what? What makes me get involved in two horribly complex, two-week-long conferences, year after year? Of course, both (DebConf and EDUSOL) are great fun to be part of, and both have greatly influenced both my skills and interests. Anyway, this is the fifth year we hold EDUSOL. Tomorrow we will bring the two weeks of activities to an end, hold the last two videoconferences, and —finally— declare it a done deal. I must anticipate the facts and call it a success, as it clearly will be recognized as such. One of the most visible —although...

Sigh… I am starting to fill up my annual report for my real-life work. You know, that chore you must do every year where you score little bullets next to each completed project and talk well about yourself. For my workplace, fortunately, I do not have to lie and convince people I am worth rehiring - As this year I achieved definitividad as a Técnico Académico Asociado C de Tiempo Completo at my University, I can say for sure I have long-term job safety. UNAM is the best place for me to work, and I am most grateful — Even...

As some of you know, yesterday we started the two weeks of activities for the Fifth On-line Encounter of Free Education, Culture and Software. This year, the main topic for the conference is social networks, but not in the twitter-facebook sense — Social networks as ways of understanding and modelling human-to-human interactions. Of course, there is interest from many attendees in using and taking advantage of said social network systems (and others), but the topic is far broader. One of the core tools of EDUSOL, and the only tool that is constantly active through our two weeks of activity, is...