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Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Quebec City & Maine

After driving 2750km, we have returned home. Quebec City is beautiful and the Maine coast is just as lovely as I imagined. We did, however, have pretty crappy weather --rain, wind, coldish temps for this time of year, fog and plenty of cloud cover. That said, we enjoyed it as much as possible.

I have created two flickr sets, one for Quebec City and the other one for Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park.

The Château Frontenac

The flag of Quebec

From The Citadelle

Kayaking near Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island.

Jordan Pond

Flickr sets here and here.

by Manuel Lora at 4:22 PM under travel (Comments)

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel

» Membership, LoCo, and stuff

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.

by nxvl at 11:13 PM under administration , blogs , blueprints , charlas , development , en , europe , free software , freesoftware , internet , intrepid , investigacion , launchpad , loco , members , peru , prague , python , server , software freedom day , travel , ubuntu , ubuntu-pe , uds , vacaciones (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» A few more pix of ASC

With Stephan Kinsella

Stephan, Guido Hülsmann and Gabriel Calzada

Gil Guillory, Tom Woods and me

See the rest of the set.

by Manuel Lora at 3:48 AM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Christmas and Ontario Galleries

After traveling over 1500km during the last 10 days, we're finally back home. We went to Maryland to visit my parents and then with Melissa's mom to Toronto and Niagara Falls.

As usual, I have created galleries and Flickr sets:

Christmas in Maryland and Washington (Flickr)
Ontario (Flickr)

by Manuel Lora at 1:39 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Florida Photo Gallery

For Thanksgiving we went to Florida to visit Melissa's brother's family. We had a nice time and were able to visit Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Here's the gallery: Florida 2007

by Manuel Lora at 2:42 AM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Some other photos from NYC

Juan Fernando Carpio has posted some other photos in NYC.

by Manuel Lora at 6:11 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Virginia Beach: The Photos

New gallery from our recent trip to Va. Beach, where we had a lovely time with my family.

More here.

by Manuel Lora at 3:24 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» 1000 Islands

This weekend we went to the lovely 1000 Islands area. It is about two and a half hours north of Ithaca along the border with Ontario. We took a boat tour and visited Singer Castle as well as Boldt Castle. Beautiful sights and great weather. New photo gallery here.

Rest of photos.

by Manuel Lora at 4:42 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Mini-Me!

Last Thursday we flew to LA for my cousin's wedding (photos coming soon). On the way to LAX from Detroit, we saw Verne Troyer, famous for his role as Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies. He was in first class (duh) and we spotted him at the gate, while boarding and again at the baggage claim.

by Manuel Lora at 9:07 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» The Big Apple

I'm going with my boss to Streaming Media 2007 (East) in NYC. We're going to attent several of the sessions, walk around the exhibition floor, and perhaps enjoy a couple of nights of big city life.

by Manuel Lora at 4:15 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» New galleries: Washington and Rochester

Melissa and I have posted new galleries.

George Eastman House (founder of Kodak) in Rochester, which is now also a museum of photography and film.

Washington, D.C., where Melissa went for EB.

by Manuel Lora at 4:51 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» Sage and Tulips

Rachael Sage rocked. The cafe we were in was very small, about 15-20 tables and there were about 50 people there, so it was very intimate. She sang and played the keyboard and was accompanied by a cello and trumpet. The sound was, like her studio albums, quite solid and surprisingly filling considering there were only 3 instrumens on the stage. She autographed one of our CDs, too

Also, last night we returned from Ottawa. Though with a population of over 700 thousand, it seemed pretty manageable. We stayed downtown and walked everywhere (except when we went to Dow Lake on the Tulip Festival shuttle). We visited Parliament Hill and several other areas. The flowers had not fully bloomed, but the patches that had looked excellent. We'll be working on some new galleries (we've fallen way behind on our photo updates...) so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are some quick samples.

by Manuel Lora at 5:05 PM under travel (Comments)

Manuel Lora
manuel
The Swamp Land Exile

» A musical and flowery weekend

This wekeend will be fun.

We're going to see Rachael Sage sing Friday night at the Cyber Cafe West in Binghamton, about one hour south of Ithaca.

Then Saturday we're heading to Ottawa for the Canadian Tulip Festival. The weather forecast looks excellent. I'm hoping to have lots of colorful pictures.