Thanks to Jaime Wong:
The “Chicha Simpsons” by Jaime Wong, featuring Antonio Ognio, Miguel Rabi, Cesar Villegas, Homer Simpson drinking chicha morada and yours truly (with a friendly Python).
Thanks a lot Jaime! I’m already using this as my avatar in pownce and in IM.
Update: Feedjack has been released!
Some nights ago I wrote a little Planet replacement in Django called FeedJack. There is still no source code available but I’ll release it as open source as soon as I polish it a little and write docs (if a software has no docs, it doesn’t exist).
You can see it in action in ChichaPlanet, probably one of the first “planets” after Planet Gnome and Planet Debian. It has some features in common with PlanetPlanet:
But FeedJack also has some advantages:
Again a long time without posting. First, I want to congratulate my friend Rodolfo since he got married. Congratulations! :-)
And now for the “monthly update”. Last week I gave a talk in UNMSM, again a nice audience and spreading the free software word. I gave them a copy of Ubuntu so they can copy it and distribute it between the students.
Last week, was also DebianPeru’s first event: the Debian Day. It was all very interesting, and I was in a very good mood since I got three new IBM Model-M keyboards. Rudy gave an excelent talk about what debian really is: the people.
And now in more interesting news, it seems that Keyra of supertangas fame is now a celebrity. A site hosting her pics was mentioned in Howard Stern’s show and got “keyradotted” (I set up a mirror: Keyra Agustina Photo Gallery).
UPDATE: Some sites are calling her “Agustina”, but she always signs as “Julieta”. She is getting incredibly famous, and has been nominated girl of the year (and ass of the year) in several sites, and the year isn’t even over. supertangas seems keyradotted to death.
This has been one busy week. I had a hard drive crash in my job’s desktop box, a bad one. The hard drive is a new one, a 120GB Seagate disc, but the hard drive fan that came with it was defective.
I used Ubuntu Live to reiserfsck the damn thing. Everything was so messed up that I had to –rebuild-sb and –rebuild-tree in my data partitions. I lost GigaBytes of data but, lucky for me, nothing critical. Now all my filesystems are XFS, except for a small 30MB /boot ext3 partition for grub compatibility. God (Cthulhu) bless free software and CHOICE.
Now, the chicha-event of the month, Manuel came to Peru. It was a very short, family-oriented visit, but at least he was present in Nestor’s bithday last Friday. I was there with Rita so finally (almost) everybody met her :-)
He came with a great present:
Since I love british humor, I am a big fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Douglas Adams. And a copy of the Ultimate Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the perfect gift for a nerd like me.
The next day we went to a chinese restaurant and we had an excelent time :-) You can see the mandatory pics in Manuel’s gallery.
Now he is back in New Orleans with Melissa. He’ll probably be back here again in February.
The last week I gave two talks in two universities, one in San Marcos and another in UIGV.
In San Marcos I gave a talk about the UNIX Programming philosophy. I met again with Rodolfo and we talked, among other things, about some encoding problems we are having with planetplanet. Rodlfo has problems with d-Sur and I with chichaplanet (btw, Rodolfo, welcome to the chicha :-) )
I also had the pleasure to meet Federico Heinz. He told me about two Python projects he is involved with:
Yesterday in UIGV I gave a talk about Free Software and its future in Peru. I gave it after a videoconference with Richard Stallman, so the people in the audience was quite interested in Free Software. I gave the talk using Ubuntu Live. A very sleek debian+gnome2.8 based desktop. After the talk I gave the cd to the students there, so they can distribute it. They are forming a fre software group, and they will call APESOL for support.
All this made me think…
Last year, after a talk with my Operative Systems teacher in my university, I decided to form a group of GNU/Linux/UNIX users there, and I came with a name for it, ULIX. Sadly I had no time and I did virtually nothing but opening the #ulix channel in the freenode IRC network. Soon a small group of people from #linuxperu joined the channel, Alvaro, Fernando, Marco, Nicolas, Jj, German, and of course Breno. When Aureal Systems got the server running, one of the first thing we did was opening the ULIX mailing lists. A few weeks later, the group took contact with some teachers and ULIX got official recognition from the university as a group. After that I got another job far far away from there, and my participation in the group was almost NULL. Right now ULIX has a lab with 12 SUN SPARC and 6 Intel boxes. The group have been giving small talks in the classrooms, and even organized a installfest. ULIX also implemented a GNU/Debian powered Beowulf Cluster with the sparcs. And we are now planning to support the Gnome Project with development and patches.
The sad thing (for me) is that I have done almost nothing beyond the initial steps to help the group :-( Mainly because my job, Apesol and family obligations. I hope someday I can do more for ULIX, maybe some talk. It’s funny when you give talks everywhere but your own univertisy :-)
It has been updated.
Behold!
First was Antonio Ognio. Now, after years with gentoo, Manuel Lora is now a proud Debian GNU/Linux user. He is one of the most (if not the most) proficient gentoo users I know, but still, he finds his Debian SID box faster than his previous gentoo box. So long with the famous “performance gain” of gentoo :-)
More info: http://www.vanguardist.org/archives/56-The-Swirl.html
Who will be next? Jorge (gentoo) or Cesar (fedora)?
Resistance is futile!
On a true free software and colaborative spirit, there is a new currency in the world. This has been already covered by vanguardist and sTone_heAd. But there was a bug, and lchvdlch posted a patch. You can see the patch here:
Yes, this is a ruquios flood to Planetchicha. Come and join us!
In my previous post I forgot to mention the Linux Networking Day. It was a nice event with some interesting presentations (pics).
Also, this tuesday we celebrated breno’s birthday, with most of the members of PlanetChicha you can see the pics here and the funny comments here.
I scanned my interview in PCWorld Peru. You can see it here, and a preview:
BTW, I don’t work in Americatel anymore. But I would like to thank them for the nice experience.