Yesterday was organized the Flisol, a latinoamerican event where people get together and install free software, and I couldn’t stop myself to feature Ubuntu Raring =), so I printed some flyers and took a nice walk around the city.
The flyer features an impressive mockup of Nick Rutledge.
This was a nice warp-up for the next UbuConLa, which will be in hosted in Montevideo Uruguay next June 7th, hope to see many of guys there =)!
I’ve never been good with formal education, I’ve already studied in three major local universities IPN/UNAM/UAM without much success, I’m not saying they’re bad, but the classic education process they promote don’t fit well with my lifestyle, I use to do lots of different activities (right now, learning tango, violin, portuguese, ubuntu related stuff, syadmin work, and taking in shape a couple of startups) I think the main reason I failed was mostly because I didn’t have or didn’t want to spend time traveling (3hrs a day) for 200 days or so a year to join repetitive classrooms, I’ve also been taking half day and full day jobs for 5 years so I think that hasn’t helped either. Last year, when I left UAM I was sure I would relax and continue my life without a formal degree, however a few months later a friend suggest me to join a new university (3 years old) which was supposed to do everything online.
At the beginning I didn’t take it seriously, I mean, major local universities have already integrated, in a way or another, remote facilities (such as moddle, email, online enrollment forms, etc) without success, why a new university would make it right?, well, I was wrong!
UnADM is a true alternative, they’ve worked really hard to i18n and customize the applications they use so students don’t even recognize the technologies integrated. I almost didn’t recognize moddle, and everything has been classified with great care, they have nice tutors and its site is quite responsive, with a lot of videos|pdfs about every topic and aspect of the university, I’m talking as a normal platform user without taking in consideration political | laboral issues.
So, if by any chance you’re a student in Mexico and you’re looking for alternatives, take a look at UnADM, they(we?) still can improve a lot, but the experience I’ve got is quite good.
Have fun.
This is a fast update of the Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality event who will be hosted today starting at 18:00 UTC, in about 3 hours.
Tuesday April 2nd, 2013
Iso testing is a nice way to contribute technically to Ubuntu and it also one of the easiest ways to get started, we want everyone to do it!, join us =)
En el equipo de Ubuntu QA ¡hablamos español!, ¿interesado en contribuir con Ubuntu?, acompañanos hoy a partir de las 18:00 UTC y comprueba por ti mismo lo fácil que es. Iso testing es la actividad que conlleva descargar la última versión en desarrollo y probarla en una computadora (virtual o física). Descubre las nuevas características de Ubuntu antes que nadie y se parte de uno de los subgrupos de Ubuntu con mayor magia de la amistad 8)
Si no puedes lograrlo, no hay ningún problema, contacta a Sergio Meneses o a un servidor a la hr que quieras, el día que quieras y se parte del equipo de calidad =)
¿Qué hr son las 18:00 UTC en tu ciudad?:
So.., today was our UGJ.., and we’re reporting back =), I think we couldn’t get a better place to jam, the guys of the vision cafe got us to one of the Santa Anna personal rooms (thank you!, your service is one of the best!), Mexico downtown is full of colonial buildings and this one was not the exception. We jammed for ~4 hours, which we used to ping the problems we had reported previously, looked at translations, art, talked about the strategies to keep improving the Ubuntu-mx team and ate lots of pizza, I love to see this energy at the keyboard, we even went online:
Hey, I know we may seem some kind quiet but we where focusing on our topic list (those white papers we keep looking at): http://tinyurl.com/points-lst, we also took some pictures:
How was yours? =)
Tomorrow start the Ubuntu Loco Games!, the shedule is here:
If you’re one of the participants, remember to go to #ubuntu-mx at 9:00 CST, you can follow the last news with the hashtag #LocoGames && #LocoGamers in twitter. Have fun! =)!
We’re only 3 days left from the Ubuntu Loco Games =)!, are you already registered?, if not run to do it!, Inscriptions will close in February 8th
You don’t need to be the most wild warrior to enter (although that may help), any person can join us, look around for the loco team which you belong to and you’re done, you can have fun with us.
We’ll be playing 3 of the most successful games in the Ubuntu ecosystem: Urban Terror, Battle for Wesnoth and Assaultcube, and you can start practicing right away!
Hope to see you there, PD: Thanks to Joshman for the pretty banner design
This is an updated for the Ubuntu Loco Games 2013 Announcement:
Thanks to all for your feedback, specially to the Ubuntu-co team, after discussing with other Ubuntu Loco Teams, we’ve thought it would be even greater to organize ‘n’ matches for those days. Being that we’re adding Urban Terror and Battle for Wesnoth to the list of games we’ll be playing 9:00am CST, February 9 to 4:00pm CST, February 10. Think of these as a sort of Ubuntu Olympic games (with shorter times between them ;)
If you’re interested in hosting a Free Software Game please get in touch with chilicuil AT ubuntu dot com. We will also have a meeting in January 12 at 9:00am CST in #ubuntu-mx to share ideas to improve even more this and hopefully make it loco independent. Hope to see you there, have fun!
