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Flisol + Ubuntu walk + UbuConLa

chilicuil — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:06:21 +0000

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 =)!

UnADM, a new (quite amazing) alternative for university education in Mexico

chilicuil — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:25:33 +0000

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.

promotional video

Have fun.

Puesta a prueba de Ubuntu Raring en español

chilicuil — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:59:01 +0000

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

1800 UTC – 2200 UTC
- Quality team members are dedicated to hanging out in #ubuntu-quality executing testcases and helping answer questions
1800 UTC:
- We’ll be streaming live on ubuntuonair in Spanish doing live testing demos and offering help
  - Basic iso test install
  - More exotic examples — netboot, server, non-english
  - Your requests!
2000 UTC:
- We’ll be streaming live on ubuntuonair in doing live testing demos and offering help
  - Basic iso test install
  - More exotic examples — netboot, server, non-english
  - Your requests!

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?:

UGJ, Mexico city, March 2013

chilicuil — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 07:52:20 +0000

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:

Click to view slideshow.

How was yours? =)

Ubuntu Loco Games 2013 | Shedule 9 February 2013

chilicuil — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:17:16 +0000

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! =)!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocoGames

Ubuntu Loco Games 2013 – 3 days left

chilicuil — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:14:15 +0000

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

http://pad.ubuntu.com/LocoGames

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

Ubuntu Loco Games 2013 – Update

chilicuil — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:19:15 +0000

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!

Ubuntu Loco Games 2013 – I

chilicuil — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:26:49 +0000

Update: http://viajemotu.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/ubuntu-loco-games-2013-update/

The ubuntu-mx team is still celebrating its recent approval status and one way to do it is organizating the first edition of the Ubuntu Loco Games, the idea is simple know each other and have fun at the same time, interested?, join us!

From 9:00am CST, February 9 to 4:00pm CST, February 10, we’ll match teams members in a mortal combat of AssaultCube, Battle for Wesnoth & Urban Terror, so spread the news and add your team and your ubuntu warriors to:

http://pad.ubuntu.com/LocoGames

If you are not sure which one is your Ubuntu Loco Team, look for it at: http://loco.ubuntu.com/

The information of the formal server will be delivered 10 minutes before the event at @ubuntumx and #ubuntu-mx =)

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-mx/2173/detail/

rm wrapper

chilicuil — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:57:02 +0000

Update1: You may want to try trash-cli / gvfs-bin instead of this script

Update2: You can also may want to look at idea #8217 to know some of the disadvantages of rm aliases

Sometimes when I run:

$ rm foo

I realize I didn’t mean it, so with this in my mind I made a little wrapper, now instead of removing my files, it sends them to the trash bin, it’s compatible with [nautilus|pcmanfm]. Example: If I run from a terminal $ rm img.png I can then go to the Trash carpet in Nautilus and restore it. If I delete it in Nautilus (by pressing the [Supr] button) I can open a terminal and type

$ rm -u img.png

If you want use the script, download it, move it to /usr/local/bin and add an alias to the ~/.bashrc file:

$ alias rm='rm_'

Hope it helps

Report UGJ Mexico DF – 08/09/2012

chilicuil — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:47:07 +0000

Hi,

Yesterday the ubuntu-mx team hosted his third UGJ, this one was very special because it was the result of the reorganization of it. As we had been doing lately, we annoyed again some people in the Ubuntu community (sry Elizabeth) and they (again) help us with advices and links to documentation. We also want to thanks to the ubuntu-co team because of his kidness, specially to @joshman who stayed with us and help us to deal with the translation activities (you rock!)

The event started at 11:00 (utc-6) and finished at 18:00 which means that we jammed for almost 7 hours =)_, we talked about juju, maas, the iso adoption procedure, harvest, checkbox, -proposed updates and the steps to report bugs. Of course we also talked about other unrelated and social things. Every task was assigned a certain amount of points [1], therefore the person who won the most points turned into our SUPER HERO of our 08-09-2012 UGJ-MX edition.

René Gómez Legorreta (conde): 90 points

It wasn’t easy, we saw a hard battle for the first spot, specially because @cesar who was other of our ugj guests ranked 85 points! (that was closed man!) we also had other nice people who made 60, 40 & 30~ points. Since we couldn’t reach any sponsor this time we didn’t gave away godies. However for our local hero we made available an interview on our site (in spanish).

I can’t lie, it was a great jam, if you don’t believe you can see it for yourself:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77596230@N04/sets/72157631474806824/

[1] http://tinyurl.com/points-ls