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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 5, 2008

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)
May 25, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» UDS is already ended

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UDS Group Foto, originally uploaded by nxvl.

FossCamp and UDS has already ended, We have had a lot of interesting session and decided about a lot of things. The most interesting things about the whole event have been the Ubuntu/Debian colaboration session leaded by the awesome Lucas Nussbaum, i hope that most of the things we talked about become real things.

In the Server side has also been a lot of interesting things happened, we have had the great OpenLdap Project Leader with us in the sessions, so we have talked a lot about how to integrate services and ways to use OpenLdap in those.

Now i’m in a one week trip across Europe, so i have not much time to write a big post, but i promise to write it when i came back to Lima, we have hade a LOT of interesting things happened this week.

If you want to check some photos i have already uploaded a lot of them into my flickr account.

by nxvl at 11:31 AM under debian , development , en , fosscamp , free software , freesoftware , intrepid , life , linux , openldap , ubuntu , uds (Comments)
April 7, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Buster, Hardy, Prague and some other news

This have been busy week’s so i have been a little offline, but as usual when it happens i will do a little summary of what happened, so here we go:

Buster is here
Finally i have my brand new Thinkpad T61 on hands, i installed Hardy Heron Beta and it works really good, i have almost no problems with it working out of the box, the only thing i need to tune is the hibernation feature which doesn’t work properly, but i haven’t have time to report it or check what is happening.

I’ve got my visa
Everything is in order now, i have all my papers for attending to UDS, last week i got my visa, so it’s confirmed, i’m going to Praga, i’m really exited about it, i hope to finally meet face to face the people i work almost every day with it will be a really nice experience, so see you un Prague!!!

University started
Last week i started classes at the university once again, i have a really interesting course named “computer graphics” in which we use the MFC library, i was hopping to have a little fight with my teacher about the final course work, because i don’t even have a windows machine to do it, but i was really surprised when he had the idea and propose me to do the final course work using OpenGL and Free tools, that’s surprising because on the university i study almost everything is done with Microsoft tools and technologies and they doesn’t allow the students to use anything different, but it’s finally changing!!!

Hardy Release party
We have almost everything ready, we are running a Release Party on May the 3th, we have been working on the place, the talks, and making everything works, and we are almost ready! So if you are in Perú i hope to see you at the San Marcos University that day!

She came finally
The last 4 months have been really long and hard for me, my girlfriend have been working on Vail Colorado as part of an exchange program i missed her SO much, but she’s finally here again since Friday morning and we have spend a wonderful weekend together, i love you so much!!

by nxvl at 5:05 PM under development , free software , freesoftware , hardy , laptop , lenovo , linux , opengl , prague , python , release party , t61 , thinkpad , ubuntu , uds , ulix , university , vail , visa (Comments)