effiejayx’s blog

I just finished my first week of 5-a-day (25 bugs) , and it has been fun. specially with finding out I am being ranked. You can check Daniel’s 5-a-day-stats at http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/.  Join 5-a-day today…

Avocating in schools is something I have always been interested in. In my early advocacy work, I visited a school taht was interested in reincorporating some legacy hardware and donating it to less privileged school. I spoke to them about Edubuntu and the different scenarios of how this might be possible. they were delighted and htey even invited me to visit a class of “Information Technology in a Global Society”, I came and spoke to them about the Ubuntu project as a whole and made special mention of Edubuntu. I have come to talk to teachers and even the principal of the school. You could we have stablished a very good relationship.

After a year, the school and I have presented a very interesting project. we are planning on taking some of this machines with Edubuntu to a school in a rural area. It will certainly mean a lot to me. to know that little kids that have no access to PC’s will now use probably the best learning platform. The high-school students are all hyped as well. they have studied the digital divide all this week. and they have expressed that it will be something they want to share on a special day called “International day”.

The work has begun, we have already set up 5 computers that are going to be shipped to a school, but I still have 7 to go. This is a facinating setting, Me / Linux / Legacy hardware. and working with them has been a breeze. We should be shipping them next month with and I am thrilled with the thought of the children hacking on tux paint and gcompris.

The only bad thing is that I am unable to get a decent internet connection. aparently the proxy server (on windows) makes it impossible for me to down
load packages through http, aparently it’s an isa authentication issue. but fortunately Edubuntu comes fully equiped (server cd and add-on cd), and for further installs I’ll setup a local mirror.

Funny thing, the school wanted to donate machines with Edubuntu. now they are considering getting some Edubuntu for the school.

Great thanks to the Edubuntu team, (Richard, Oliver and the gang). You help teachers make a difference. Thanks to Padmini for her inspiration and for her determination. You are the best teacher I have ever had.

The work continues, Stay tuned for more. for the rest of the pictures check here.

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My 5 today: #181899 (synaptic), #176631 (ubuntu), #183247 (firestarter), #183180 (ttf-mgopen), #180649 (sound-juicer)
Do 5 a day – every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

Initially, I started my MOTU Journey diary or log by reading a series of entries that Jonathan Carter’s had written when he was trying out for MOTU. Many other people have started writing their own plan with hopes of becoming MOTU’s and reading reading some of the logs, I learned that I need to check out some of these things myself. and that I guess is what makes this great. I feel like we are all travelerś taking different roads, what someone learns in their path is something I can learn as well. as I get ready for packaging something new. I checked the logs for Francisco, Murat , Maruiz and Chris initially and I can say I got a good idea of where to start looking if I am headed for packaging something new. Thank you guys. and I guess things come full circle.  I am what I am because of what we all are…

Fellow Ubuntu-ve member, Francisco Calderon was so inspired that he invited some friends to share what he has learned, we could say he had a little impromntu beginner’s package jam with pizza included.

I am looking forward to repeating this in another cities

more pictures of Francisco’s jam here

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My 5 today: #195007 (gnome-panel), #191838 (epiphany-browser), #193637 (epiphany-browser), #149419 (hal), #194199 (gnome-terminal)
Do 5 a day – every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

Ok I hear ll this talk about five… and i am beginning to connect the dots:

1) The first version of ubuntu I tried and installed was 5.04 (hoary)…. (FIVE)

2) This is LUG RADIO’s fifth season….. (FIVE)

3) Before I got married, I lived in apartment 5B  (FIVE)

4) I first used a computer when I was five. (FIVE)

5) My daughter is 5 years old. (FIVE)

That can only mean one thing.  must start doing 5-a-day…

What is 5-A-Day?
We, that means everybody, will do 5 bugs a day - every day. With only
five bugs that everybody looks at every day, we will cover a lot of ground.

What you can do? That's up to you, your interests and your abilities.
 - If you're a developer, you can help out reviewing patches and getting
them uploaded.
 - If you want to just confirm new bugs, you can do that.
 - If you have experience with a certain package and want to triage bugs
you can do that and forward them upstream if necessary.
 - If you know your way around Ubuntu quite well, you can help assign
bugs to the right package.

What you need to do to participate?
 - Do it! Follow the instructions on the 5-A-Day homepage [0]
 - Spread the word by adding your 5 a day to your mailing list posts [1]
 - Add them to your blog posts (join http://ubuntuweblogs.org/ [2] if
you're interested)

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day#Log
[2] (follow the instructions on http://ubuntuweblogs.org/submit.html)

I am starting monday

P.S.  there also … the fifth Beatle and when I finished this post, marron 5 started playing…. all roads lead to… 5

This message is to congratulate our neighboring country’s LoCo team. The Colombian LoCo team is now approved. On behalf of the Venezuelan LoCo team, congratulations to the great people in the Colombian team. May this well deserved commitment-flavored reward encourages more South American teams. Vamos Vamos…

¡Felicidades Hermanos Colombianos! 

Well, I am happy I could pull it off. I upgraded a package that was a bit abandoned. the version in ubuntu was unsupported by upstream so I tried hard on this one. The application got moved from 0.1.1 to 0.2.2. It proved a challenge and I have written about it in my MOTU journey log. I would appreciate any help reading through and seeing where I could have done better. Also any tips regarding shaping the package a bit more and it would help me in my skills as well.

I am completly uncertain about the future of the package (the package is orphan in debian and upstream) . but one thing is for sure… we got the latest from upstream in hardy.

Thanks for all the support.

P.S. I have updated my MOTU schedule… next up… packaging something new… .

rocky reference… I have been watching too many rocky movies on TV … “YO Adrian … I did it”

My dear friend David Hernandez from ubuntu-ve wrote them in spanish. I’d thought It would be good to share on this day…

g33k Phrases for valentine’s day

Warning, the following phrases have a high geek content, handle with care.

* You are the kernel of my GNU / Linux
* You are my the HTML   in  myheart.com
* You are my megabyte in 1024kb
* Your eyes shine more than my tower CD’s
* www.yourheart.com is  my homepage
* You are my CPU socket
* Your RAM gives life to my livecd
* You are the compiler of my code

* You are the .Gif that animates my life
* You are always are in ~ / heart
* I think of you more that the number of pages indexed by google
*  You are the enter key of my life

* If you leave me, I will ALT-F4 my life
* When you see my CPU cycle accelerates
* You have the highest priority on my list of processes
* You are the linker of my objects .
* Your wishes are signals for me
* None graphic could render your  beauty at 100%
* In the bed you are pure overclocking
* Without you my life would be like a website without  CSS
* You are my battery charger

happy belated valentine’s 

Yesterday morning, I received a nice task that seemed challenging enough for me to take:

 <Hobbsee> effie_jayx: please fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110268

It the bug was on a game called Gweled, I had heard about it before. and It immediately appealed to me. I knew this represented more of a challenge. My bug fixes where all related to CLI apps, so this definetely represented a challenge.

Fortunatelly for me, reading the bug on launchpad gave me good insights on where the problem was:

With a little help from the guys at #ubuntu-motu, I was able to fix this.  I have a journal entry for this in my MOTU JOURNEY LOG  . It covers all I did, including submitting the patch to DEBIAN.

Get Started on MOTU TODAY!

 Kudos to: Hobsee (for suggesting the bug and constant support) , sistpoty (for the fantastic Master crash course on autotools) , albert23 (for helping me pinpoint the real issue) and ScottK (for his pointers on submitting a patch to DEBIAN).