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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

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!

La noticia del día en el mundo de los gamers es el anuncio por parte de Blizzard de la versión para Latinoamérica de su juego mas exitoso: World of Warcraft. El lanzamiento incluye los esperados servidores exclusivos para la comunidad latina.

La versión de World of Warcraft para América Latina en español está siendo preparada para ser lanzada y estará a la venta a partir del próximo viernes 25 de Julio.

La “fiesta” de lanzamiento se hará solamente en México y el juego estará disponible para su inmediata comercialización en moneda local en Chile y Argentina. Progresivamente se irán adicionando mas países en los cuales evidentemente estará el Perú.

Se podrán hacer transferencias gratuitas desde los siguientes servidores US:
Agamaggan
Andorhal
Burning Blade
Burning Legion
Hakkar
Kalecgos
Lightning’s Blade
Shadowmoon
Skullcrusher
Smolderthorn
Spinebreaker

Todos los que no esten en esos servidores tendrán que pagar para poder transferir sus chars, encima sujeto a disponibilidad.

Se abrirán 3 servidores que son: Ragnaros (PvP), Drakkari (PvP), and Quel’Thalas (PvE) y el battlegroup al que serán agregados será Vindication.

Cuando tenga mas datos iré actualizando el post

You may have read already about Ubuntu centralized server administrator since it has been mentioned on the lasts server meetings and as you may have noticed i’m not present on them, so i will start giving the status of the spec from here, but first, as this is the first time i blog about it i will start describing what is ucsa:

On the last UDS i talked to some people about making a tool to control and manage services easily and without pain for new sysadmins. The first thing really painful about service management tools is that you have limited options on it, and if you edit your config file by hand it will simply break the tool, so you can or use the tool or edit config files, not the 2 of them at the same time, so one of the goals was to have some way to edit the config files by hand and not destroy the management tool, but how? You can’t! You must be out of your mind! Well, it might be, but we got some ideas on how to do this:
Ignored zone:
We first talk about making the tool read until some stop point, so the sysadmin can edit after that point without breaking anything because the tool wasn’t going to read it.

Augeas
After UDS someone send some links to the server team list and one of them catch my attention, it was a tool that parses config files and present them as trees so you don’t need to care about the config file itself, just edit the tree and save it, it was the perfect backend for ucsa!

Also, i wanted a tool that doesn’t depend on any service (as a web browser), since i want to care only about the services, so we need a user interface different from CLI, since it’s “hard” from the new linux sysadmins (now i love it, but remember when you start!). Gtk? plz! who wants Xorg on his server, maybe for home servers, but not as initial UI, Curses! That’s perfect! We can use it from command line without needing anything extra! Yay!

So what’s the progress? I’ve already packaged augeas, i’m just waiting for someone to review it and give me feedback or upload it.

Find this a cool idea? Stay tunned, there is more!

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!

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.