Happy New Year from Venezuela
December 31, 2007 at 8:13 pm | In English | 1 Comment
Thanks for the incredible support this year. A big hand to all people in the Ubuntu community. It has been fantastic year to all of us, Just about every new person that comes around feels right at home. Thanks for the incredible and undying support towards the Venezuelan community. In this upcoming year may we all achieve our goals.
Feliz Año Nuevo… from Ubuntu-ve
Reconversión de mi blog… y OpenOffice.org Listo
December 31, 2007 at 3:53 pm | In Español | 5 Comments 
Hoy es el día… No sabia yo que cuando le puse nombre a mi blog iba a ser parte de la reconversión monetaria del país. Ahora si se ajusta al dicho y ya verán por que. El nombre viene de “mis 10 céntimos” o “my ten cents” en Inglés el cual es extrapolado a cualquier moneda… en Inglaterra “My two pence” lo cuales son centavos de monedas que en sentido figurado significa “mi aporte” o “mi opinión”… por eso le puse “Mis 100 bolivares”.
Ahora bien… si hacemos la conversión, al correr la coma 3 espacios tenemos:
Bs 100 » BsF 0,10..
Para las partes interesadas en la materia, Ya OpenOffice.org 2.3 en Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon también tiene los cambios para la reconversión monetaria en Venezuela…
De ahora en adelante,“Mis 10 céntimos de Bolivar Fuerte … 0,10 BsF” para todos.
MOTU JOURNAL UPDATE #3: Merging…
December 20, 2007 at 8:36 am | In English | Leave a Comment
DON’T FORGET.. (and I won’t either)
WHAT: MOTU Q&A session
WHEN: TOMORROW (and EVERY FRIDAY)
WHAT TIME: 13:00 UTC
WHERE: #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net
PS. Last week I was late due to che time zone change in my country :S
<effie_jayx> no motu today?
<Hobbsee> effie_jayx: you’re late.
well, at least I didn’t get the stick of doom for being late 
back to my post.
Merging
WHAT IS A MERGE?
taken from the UbuntuDevelopment/Merging entry in the Ubuntu Wiki:
” … In the beginning of each Ubuntu development cycle the packages in Ubuntu are updated to those in Debian unstable. However, because Ubuntu is not the same as Debian, some of the packages need to be modified to work in Ubuntu. There might also be bug fixes that Ubuntu developers have introduced into the packages…
Me and Merging
When I first started out trying to help in MOTU, I saw lot’s of people doing merges. and Not just MOTU, New people. I was very suprised. so I said, While in Rome… and I grabbed my first merge under the ever watchful eye of the more experienced MOTU’s. I did not know enough to help out with a merge. It was simply something I couldn’t get a hang of. mostly because I couldn’t undertand the process.
This time around It was different. with a little (or a lot of ) help from my MOTU friends (ScottK and mruiz) , I managed to pull it off. all I needed was to read more carefully and concentrate… here’s the knowledge you need UbuntuDevelopment/Merging
this is my first merge: merge bug #177163
Thank you all for the support and thanks for baring with me being a bit behind on my MOTU journey… I am learning the ropes
rm -rf != :-), != gnu/linux
December 17, 2007 at 8:09 pm | In Español | 1 Comment<ompaul> rm -rf != 
<ompaul> != gnu/linux
Lección aprendida por un novato hoy. quien al recibir ayuda. recibió ese comando y pensó que era una instrucción mas para las cosas que tenia que hacer. el único error que este novato cometió fue confiar en que alguien en otro lado lo puede ayudar. No culpo al que envío el comando rm -rf / , pues el no es el único en el planeta. Esto es una practica común de la gente que en vez de dar la respuesta correcta solo da el mal sabor al nuevo usuario linux para que NUNCA olvide su error.
Si bien la otra persona que intentaba ayudar quizás no manejaba bien el contenido en materia. no hubiese quedado mal interceder y ofrecer conocimiento, después de todo de eso se trata.
Afortunadamente este usuario no se fue al software privativo pese a su experiencia con el lado mas severo de la comunidad y nos queda de reflexión; ¿Cuanto le habrá pagado Microsoft a este miembro de nuestra comunidad para espantar a los nuevos usuarios? que le devuelva la plata… el chamo reparo su sistema..
Muchísimas gracias a ompaul por sabias palabras para con esta situación “rm -rf != , rm -rf != gnu/linux”
1era Jornadas de Investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías libres
December 12, 2007 at 12:10 pm | In English | Leave a CommentI am currently at the “1era jornadas de Investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías libres” in merida. I was invited to come here in the trip I made to Puerto Ordaz for the “V foro mundial del conocimiento libre” (read about that trip here).
As I travel around Venezuela, I have gotten the valuable oportunity to meet founding members of the F/OSS community and I have been greeted with open arms ubuntu-ve has gained a spot in the nationwide movement. I had the chance to meet with founding members and new young blood and discuss the role of the communities in our country. We had the chance to present the projects we are participating in (translation to Wayuu, documentation) and we explained the Idea behind LoCo teams. I have had the chance to meet local Ubunteros like David Hernandez and Luis Puentes. They have express their intentions of helping out ubuntu-ve locally.
I have to say the Venezuelan Free and Open Source community is really working hard to integrate the work done and to best contribute to eachothers proyects. Ubuntu-ve is keeps rocking as the train keeps rolling.
MOTU JOURNEY UPDATE: I am currently trying to work my first merge. I had chosen smc (since the Debian Maintainer is a friend of mine) but there is and issue with dependencies that are being solved before I can do this one. I am currenlty looking at another merge. expect an update this week and from there on I’ll be more constant.
Please bare with me as my talks get in the way of my MOTUness experience. it all goes into juggling my participation.
- Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
Come and meet ubuntu-ve…
December 10, 2007 at 5:40 pm | In English | Leave a Comment
Ubuntu-ve has opened up a planet. The main idea is to showcase the contributions of several members of the ubuntu-ve LoCo team and to further share with other spanish speaking LoCo teams. It is a opened door to the lives of the ubuntu-ve members that every day make ubuntu-ve ROCK. this planet is in spanish, a new planet fot the Ubuntu Solar System.
Big thanks to Nick Ali for all the crazy DNS changes and to Nick Motiff and Miguel Ruiz all the technical guidance towards making this planeta happen.
Great Thanks to the whole spanish- speaking community for the enourmous support.
¡VIVA UBUNTU!
Ubuntu-ve en UJGH Maracaibo
December 10, 2007 at 3:32 pm | In Español | Leave a Comment
El sabado 8 de diciembre, Miembros de la fraternidad Ubuntu-ve tuvimos el placer de compartir con la comunidad estudiantil y el profesorado de la Universidad José Gregorio Hernandez. La oportunidad surgió como una iniciativa del Prof. Ricardo Favelo, al quien le agradezco enormemente por el chance de llevar UBUNTU a todos esas personas quienes nos recibieron con un interes fantastico.
Nuestra participación constaba con una serie de charlas basicas Ubuntu(Definición del proyecto ubuntu, Migraciones, Ubuntu-ve: camino a una comunidad local), OpenOffice.org, Talleres de Instalación y de manejo del escritorio, y dos charlas orientadas a la programación, Una bajo entornos web(php – posgresql) y otra orientada al desarrollo de aplicaciones desktop (Mono Develop) .
Un informal Hack lab, cerro la sesión de talleres donde personas podían hacer preguntas, resolver sus problemas y compartir con la comunidad ubuntu-ve.
Quiero agradecerle enormemente al motor de ubuntu-ve quienes son sus miembros activos. Nathalie Colina (Art3misa) Johan Hernandez (thepumpkin), Santiago Zarate (santiago-ve) y Cesar Sevilla (C3s4r). quienes con su esfuerzo lograron presentarle la comunidad ubuntu-ve en acción a todos los asistentes de esta fabulosa jornada.
Ubuntu listo para cambio de huso horario…
December 6, 2007 at 8:37 am | In Español | Leave a Comment 
Ya José Parrella en varias ocaciones nos había comentado sobre como se realizaria el cambio en Debian. ya estos cambios han fluido de upstream a muchas derivadas. Ubuntu esta listo para el cambio de huso horario. Hoy me llego esta actualización por medio del gestor de actualizaciones (ahora cuenta con changelog report para ver cuales fueron los cambios), justo 3 días antes del cambio en nuestro país. Quizás esta es la ventaja de ser un equipo grande. Un cambio en se genera en un proyecto. todos en el mundo del software libre salimos ganando.
MOTU JOURNAL UPDATE #3 : my first patch!
December 1, 2007 at 9:09 am | In English | 2 Comments
In my last post. I was building the package after having added a new manpage for the ghc6 package. The next step was testing it and if it worked OK then generate the debdiff and attaching it to this bug in launchpad, I documented all that here. I received feedback and I was quick to make the changes.
I have to admit my first patch submission happened very fast. I am usually very shy to show my MOTU work as I consider myself very novice when it comes to bug fixing. but it was not problematic at all when it came down to building the package and testing. I have described the whole process step by step in my journal just in case you run into a manpage bug 
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Pimping my journal, as It gets longer and longer. I decided to add a small content table for easy access of certain parts of the journal. and I have to say it looks nicer.
Now I need to find me another bug …
karmic
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