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August 29, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» A month to remember

August 2008 has been an awesome month for me, there has been a lot of things going on in my life on the past 28 days, a lot of good news, awesome experiences and opportunities, but 4 of them are the most remarkable:

DisneyLand:
I went for second time to disneyland, this time with my girlfriend family. It was just awesome, i had fun like a kid again, i felt like i was 7 again. I even have a photo with Mickey Mouse!

I’m a MOTU
A few weeks ago i’ve been accepted in the MOTU Team, it has been a hard, but wonderful time contributing, learning, fixing bugs, knowing people and having fun and now i get my reward, i’m SO happy with this.

I’m going to latinoware
Some days ago i was invited to LatinoWare, taking place from 30th October until 1th November, to give a talk on the Ubuntu track, and to help in the organization of that track also. It would be my first talk in an international event, i’m so looking forward into it.

I get a new work
Starting on Monday, i will be working as Security Engineer in the OEM Services Group for Canonical. It’s an amazing opportunity to work with the bleeding edge technology, and specially on security, which is what i love!

For those reason specially, 08/2008 will be a month to remember.

by nxvl at 4:50 AM under canonical , disney , free software , latinoware , motu development , oem , planet ubuntu , ubuntu (Comments)
July 18, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Random stuff

This is one more of those post with some random information and updates:

One more week for holidays!!
I’m going to travel to Orlando, Florida with my girlfriend’s family for holidays, i’m going to be after 17 years in disney world again! I’m also looking forward to know the LoCo Team (if there is any) and/or random FreeSoftware enthusiast, so if you live there, drop me an e-mail so we can get in contact to find a place and time for having some beers :D

Augeas is finally in!
Augeas has already reach the ubuntu and debian archive! So it’s time to write lenses and work to have it in good shape!

Config:Model
Last week (i think) i’ve been mailed about the Config:Model project, it looks really promising to me, i’m only waiting for augeas support to package it and start playing. If it gets into that stage soon (which i hope it does) we can have UCSA (or whatever i call it at the end) for intrepid+1!!

UDS in California
I’m really exited about this, next UDS will be at google offices in Mountain View California from 8th to 12th December, that’s one week after my final exams, so i won’t need to ask for permission at the university! Also i already have my visa for the united states, so there are less problems to go there (just the financial one :P). So i hope i can see you all in there!!

New Maintainer process
I’ve started my journey into Debian development. I’ve been contributing since i started with ubuntu development (really less that for ubuntu, but still forwarding a lot of stuff), i’m the maintainer of 2 packages now and i will start co-maintaining one more package, so i thought it was time to start the NM process, i founded an advocate (thank you kees!!) and i jumped in, it’s a long and not quick process but an awesome one, i still have a lot of debian in my heard, since was the distro which introduced me into Linux and i want to pay that back!

New Mentoring Model
Last week we have been discussing a lot inside the mentoring reception team and with other MOTU’s on improving the mentoring program, we start writing a draft, making changes, discussing more, and finally we released it!

I think this was all the random stuff going on in my life this last days!

by nxvl at 4:25 AM under advocate , augeas , california , config-model , debian , development , disney , holidays , mentoring , motu , planet ubuntu , server , sponsorship , ubuntu , uds , university (Comments)
June 16, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» More news!

It has been a really busy week, lot’s of news and things to share with you, so as always let’s start:

Software Freedom Day
Ubuntu Perú is placed to announce that is going to be in charge of the Software Freedom Day here, we are trying to run a different but amazing event, we have some ideas for that, we are trying to run a Lan Party using OpenArena, and have an inter university contest of FOSS related projects so we can promote and some how wake the students of the local universities up to be more active on the FOSS, and some other also, but everything on his time.

Global Bug Jam
We are also going to be part of the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam!! I’m very sad that we are just going to run it on Lime, but i’m trying to move some people from other towns to run a Bug Day there and just triage some Bug Reports and help, but we will see what happens.

Packaging Jams
Last Friday i run a packaging jam on my university it was really nice to see some students going, and more impressive to see a teacher in there! It was awesome, we only package ed from source because we run out of time, but i will patch some bugs this Friday, it seems that they want some workshops every Fridays so i will try to get them involved in ubuntu!
Also i have been invited to run a packaging Jam next week, i think, on other LUG’s place they need to confirm me the date, but it’s almost a fact i will be there!

CONASOL
This weekend i have been on Chimbote (6 hours by bus from Lima to the north) giving a talk on a congress they have there, i talk about the Ubuntu Behind the Scenes (thanks pedro for the presentation) and they were very happy, i hope to see people involved in the project soon, they were really happy and interested.

UCSA
As i focus my work on the server team of ubuntu i have been focusing on a new tools to manage services and configurations. I have seen some people interested in this idea asking what was about it: It’s not dead, i’m still working on that, i have been evaluating Augeas, and it seems that it’s really useful this days i will play more with it and package it for further development, so stay tunned or send me an e-mail if you want to help with this.

I’ve got my visa!
Now it’s a fact, i will be on Miami from 28 July to 6th August, i’m going to be in orlando (yes, i’m going on vacations to Disney) and one night in Tampa so if you live in there i’m looking to meet with some LoCo’s and have a good time, so send me and e-mail to talk about the details!

Ok, i think this is it for now, i will try to post more now that i’m not so busy as last week!

by nxvl at 9:38 PM under bug , bugs , chimbote , conasol , development , disney , en , freesoftware , global buj jam , internet , launchpad , life , linux , loco , miami , orlando , peru , python , server , server team , sfd , softwarefreedomday , tampa , ubuntu , ubuntu-pe , ucsa , ulix , vacaciones (Comments)