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June 16, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
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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)
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)