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Internet is now proved to be unsecured even if DNS are patched and i reached and unthinkable level of paranoia. Given that launchpad ppa (which are awesome for QA) doesn’t use signed packages, so i can’t actually check the integrity of them i’ve changed all my sources.list from url’s to ip’s so i can’t (at least i hope) be vulnerable to cache poisoning \o/

P.S: Please launchpad team, make ppa use signed packages!

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!

Terminator 0.9 Feature Freeze has come, i’m really excited to see the new features working, they are awesome, but what are this new exciting features?

• Tabs: Now terminator supports tabs, you have different tabs with splited terminals on each one.
• Drag & Drop: Now you can reorder your terminals, you just need to press Cntrl + right click and drag and drop your terminals wherever you want!
• Terminal zooming: This is one of the more exiting ones, have you expect problems when using splited terminals and one of them turns to little for some seconds? Now you just need to press ctrl+shift+z to have this terminal on the whole window and then use the same key combination to put it back on it’s place! It’s awesome!
• Terminatorrc: Don’t like gnome environments? Now you don’t depend on gnome-terminal to configure your terminator, you can use ~/.terminatorrc to tune your terminal as you want it to be
• Titles: kind of confused when using ssh connections inside terminator? Now we support titles, so you always have a title on each splited terminal to know where you are working on

It’s really awesome to see al this changes comming, they make terminator really usefull, want to try them? Help the terminator team to test it, just add my ppa to your sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main

Download it:

$sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install terminator

And report bugs if you find some: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator

Excited? Digg it!

It has been a while since i don’t post, since i’ve been traveling on europe and then kind of busy in the work and adapting to the correct timezone, so i have a lot of things to talk about.

Memberships
I’m really proud to anounce that i’m not the only ubuntu member any more, this week 3 new Peruvians have been approved by the regional board, i’m very happy of that since i work with them in the Peruvian LoCo Council managing the LoCo team and i know the hard work they have been doing. Also i’m really happy to see our server team documentation leader been approved as member also!
So i want to congratulate Andres, Dante, Michael and Adam! Keep rocking guys!!

Peruvian LoCo team
Yesterday the Peruvian LoCo team has been finally approved as an official LoCo!! We have work a lot on this so i was very happy when i start seeing the “+1″ from the LoCo Council members!! Rock on Peru!!

Global Bug Jam
I was very happy to read about the Global Bug Jam! It’s a wonderful idea, i’m already coordinating with the Peruvian LoCo team to run one here in Perú. Sounds like a good idea to you? Digg it and help spreading the word!

Software Freedom Day
On Prague there was a nice guy who talk about the Software Freedom Day, it looked as a good idea to me, so we are coordinating on the LoCo team to run one (or some) in Perú. If you don’t find any in near your place, start thinking on running one.

Server Team Blog
That’s a great idea, i’m proud to announce that mathiaz has started the Server Team Blog, where a lot of news about the server team will be posted, so stay tunned.

Ubuntu Centralized Managment Console
Since this week (today) was the deadline for presenting the blueprints for the server team i have been working on the specification of the proyect i talked about with some people on Prague i’m kind of stucked with some ideas and since i haven’t have time, since i need to recover the lost time at work on the last 2 week i kind of haven’t finished it but i will still work on that, the goal is ubuntu 10.04 so i have some time, if you have some ideas, please send them to me to nvalcarcel AT ubuntu DOT org

Conasol
Next week i will be on the National FreeSoftware Congres in chimbote, i will talk about the ubuntu backstage, how the full process behind the nice release are (thanks pedro for your presentation!!) and maybe run a Packaging Jam in there if have some time and a place where i can i hope to see people from there involved on the project, i promise to post some pictures of them if i can, so stay tunned.

So, this week the number five will become significant, Daniel has made a purpose for the Ubuntu Community, so try to reach the goal, is not hard just to look 5 bugs per day (not to patch them, just work on them) you don’t even need to be a developer to join the goal, take a look at the wiki on how you can help. I will do my best effort, but as this week is a really busy one (or it seems it would be) i don’t know i will reach the goal, but my best effort is a promise!

It’s awesome! not LP have mailing lists!! That was the only feature i feel it was missing and now we have it!! Yesterday i receive an invitation to start testing it (it is only for LP beta testers for now) and i wrote an application immediately and now that i’m checking my mail again it has been accepted! I’m si exited about it, i will start testing all the features it has and will be posting them in here and reporting bugs so it’s quick included on the next stable release of LP. If you are a beta tester and owner of a team on LP start testing it, all the communities working around LP and hosting their projects on it will be really grateful!

It’s been a while since my last post, i’ve had some hard days at work and i’ve been busy with it, so there are some things to post about.

The merging time has gone
On December 13 it was the DebianImportFreeze so there are no more merges to do unless they are necessary for other program to work. Since merging was the task my mentor gave me i ask for a new one, but that’s another point…

I’m not a mentee anymore
When i ask for a new task my mentor says i have work with almost all the things i need to know, so for now on i only need a lot of practice to become a MOTU, so now i’m on my own working with bugs, making things to work better and going on my way to MOTU.

Finally i can dget from LP
One of the most uncomfortable parts of working on the development of the new version of ubuntu is that packages.ubuntu.com is not always up-to-date so it’s needed to download the source packages from LP, but as the files are managed in different subdirectories it was impossible to dget the source, so i need to download the files needed one by one by hand and that was kind of annoying. Now it has changed, i find it doing the same process, getting the URL of each file and then wget it (yes i hate GUI and love CLI, i’m kind of a Martian) and i notice it hasn’t the ugly format it has some days ago, then i try to dget it, and it works!!!

Packaging 101 talk
Last Saturday i gave a talk on “Packaging 101″ on the “1er Festival de Software Libre ‘UNACINUX’” and on the “Debian Day 2007″, it was kind of hard finishing the first one on time to go to the second, but i was really happy of the people, they where listening, making questions, writing down my e-mail to contact me and looking for me after the talk to ask some question or making some conversations about the FS development. But what surprise me more, was that on the first place they ask me to gave a little class on packaging for the Community that makes that event and on the second one i was asked to mentor a 15 years old that loves techie and computer stuff, so i will guide him to learn programming and enter to The Force and being away from the Dark Side. It was a really good day for me despite the hard part of going from one place to other (i have had to do more things apart of the talks). The slides are on Spanish if you want them, but i have promised dholbach i will translate it to English, i maybe do it this weekend, stay tunned.

This is a new i need to post on English and Spanish.

English:

On December the 5th we are having our next Ubuntu Hug Day. We
will be targeting on bugs that haven’t a package assigned to them [0] and on getting more information from the original reporter about the errors [1], so it’s more about triaging bugs, there is no need of programming skills for joining, everyone can join.

So did you want to join? You can go to #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net, take a look to the list [2] and start working, don’t forget to write down your name on the list if you are done with a report.

Original announce.

Español

Este 5 de Diciembre será el próximo “Ubuntu Hug Day“, nos centraremos en bugs que no tienen un paquete asignado [0] y en obtener mayor información de la persona que lo reportó originalmente [1] así que no son necesarios los conocimientos en programación, todos pueden participar.

Bueno, quieres unirte? Solo debe entrar a #ubuntu-bugs en irc.freenode.net, darle una mirada a la lista [2] y comenzar a trabajar, no se olviden de poner su nombre cuando terminen de trabajar en un reporte.

Anuncio original.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20071205

Today is the release of Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 1, it’s only for testing purposes don’t use it on production machines because it has very high possibilities to crash or/and lose data, but please if you can download and test it and report the bugs, you can find more info the the wiki.

This last days i made my first Merge and it has been accepted and uploaded which makes me very happy. So, what is all this thing of Merging, well, is the process of taking the new version from a debian package, in this case efax-gtk, apply the patches made to the previous versions in ubuntu if needed and package it. It’s a very simple thing but for the first time is kind of difficult since there a lot of stuff to understand, but also nice people helping all around, i really thank you a lot. In the second time, is quite easier, i’m only waiting for revision and comments to see how was i this time.

In other news i became part of the launchpad beta testers team and i notice there are really nice stuff coming up this days like PPA, which is a feature for making our own apt repos, i haven’t start playing with it yet, but be sure i’ll one of these days and then i’ll tell you more about it.