Presenting Meego in Salta

This year I had the pleasure to attend the V Jornadas de Software Libre in Salta (http://5jsl.saltalug.org.ar). My participation involved the presentation of Meego to the local community.

As the events of the day to day life transcended due to the timing of my involvement and the pile of work I had coming along, I was unable to attend day 1 of the event, making myself available to travel and arrive for day 2 that Saturday morning.

The event was organised in such a way to have all the talks go one after the other in a single auditorium and have an outside area with some activities such as quizzes and first person shooters.

My talk about Meego was one of the last ones to go on stand, the attendance was rather good and people seemed keen to listen to what I had to say.

The talk was a run through of how Meego came to be, how it will evolve, the importance of a common base ground to work from, how the common base ensures applications will be able to cross over through the Meego verticals and most importantly, how to activate the local community in order for it to be involved. Many things could be done with Meego in its current state, ranging from creating local customisations from it adapting it to work best with the tools local to us, all the way to application development or translations.

As an addendum I gave a really quick introduction in how AppUp Center could facilitate distributing a developer's applications if they came to be with the added benefit of having them being validated by a team dedicated to do so.

My talk was preceded by one talk regarding Tuquito, named after how they call fireflies in Tucuman. The presenter was the current project leader. He also gave a walk through of the history and what Tuquito aims to be. Commenting the Tuquito Urbano movement which basically enables the local community with technology needed for today.

Tuquito is a distribution, spinned off from Ubuntu with many customisations made for universities, low powered machines and our local culture. They have enabled the ExoMate's in all their iterations to work well with Tuquito and have come in contact with many educational institutions for its distribution.

My comment regarding Tuquito comes with a stance, the leader, Mario, was rather interested in Moblin at the moment and some talks came later to be about making a Tuquito distribution using the Meego base (core). We came to agreement to get some talks going closer to the end of the year.

The community in the region (SaltaLug) was mostly interested in Meego, and wanted to start seeing some talks or workshops to develop for Meego, I commented on the possibility of doing that during next years event.

Afterwards, during the after event, which was basically a barbecue with all the organizers and presenters, we had a fair share on how to enable Meego in the local community.

The full list of talks can be found here.

puppet ebook and digital reading

I've been playing with puppet... well, it may actually go into production (lab production that is) so playing might not be that accurate. As usual I found myself fooling around the web and ran into this which I yet haven't listened to. Anyhow in the comments I saw someone talk about a book he wrote published on Apress. I followed the link, and as an impulse and because I never bought an ebook before, I decided to purchase it and check it out. The book in question is titled "Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy".

I thought I didn't like to read ebooks, but somehow the feeling is quite different when the actual artifact was a purchased one. The value one inadvertently gives to such things astonishes me.

I'm also subscribed to the IEEE and rather read what is provided over digital media, but constantly look over what I get in print. I guess it is more related to the feeling and ease when skipping pages and going back and forth. I value that a lot, too bad it doesn't feel so good when you think about the trees at stake...

Preparandose para el futuro

Los chicos de tele 2001 me llevaron a ver un film llamado *Zeitgeist*, la verdad es que me sorprende las porquerias que se ven en este mundo. Tambien ha logrado de que me cuestione muchas cosas sobre como vivimos ahora, asi como tambien alentar el hecho de que, en general, nadie sabe lo que quiere y es guiado a pensar que lo sabe. Estaremos proximos a 1984 (Big Brother)? O es que ya estamos ahi y mejorando la supervision? En los tiempos actuales, ver el gran hermano (mucha gente que conozco lo ve), sera una preparacion a lo que se viene?

La impotencia a todo esto me deja demasiado triste, quiza no todas las cosas en ese film sean ciertas o todo sea una exageracion de la realidad. En definitiva, lo unico que quedan son puntos de vista. Y este es un punto que me gustaria explorar, en su lugar, las ambiciones y objetivos serian similares?

Espero creer que no. Donde esta el bien contra el mal al cual tanto me aferro? Hay tanto mal que el bien es opacado.

En el trabajo me suceden cosas similares, nos preguntamos con un amigo siempre de porque no podemos ser mas simples y solo hacer lo que debemos hacer sin cuestionar tanto las cosas.


En fin aqui esta el video http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm, dura dos horas asi que busquense un lugar comodo y tiempo para verlo. Mas abajo estan los subtitulos en castellano (en el link que dice Spanish, o bueno, aqui)