Siguen los progresos y el mantenimiento regular de mis paquetes en Fedora, por supuesto, algo de documentación colateral nunca falta.

1. Empaquetando
   • Empaquetar rubygem-raindrops, ya disponible en F15, F16 y EPEL6.
   • Empaquetar rubygem-session, ya disponible en F15, F16 y EPEL6.
   • Actualizar rubygem-state_machine ruby 1.9 rawhide.
   • Actualizar rubygem-kgio ruby 1.9 rawhide.
   • Actualizar rubygem-raindrops ruby 1.9 f17.
   • Revisión patrocinio sinfo.
   • Empaquetar rubygem-tidy_ffi.
   • Actualizar rubygem-rhc.
2. Documentando
   • uzbl el explorador según Unix.
   • Pulseaudio-equalizer.
   • eventdance (trabajo en progreso).
   • Empaquetando Ruby 1.9 en Fedora, algunas notas.
   • Koji , mejoras.
   • bash-completion, mejoras.
   • Vim tips.
   • Creación de RubyGem con el comando gem.

- Gomix -

Is really common that someone ask you about your Fedora Profile. Even if such thing doesn’t exist properly we have our Users Wiki pages that we are *supposed* to fill so people can contact us, know a bit more about what we do on fedora and any related comment we want to add (schedules, events, meetings, projects, etc).

Even if I know is a really boring thing to do, let me encourage you to take some minutes to explain why you need to do it:

If you want something, people need to know who the hell are you!

If you’re interested on request media, swags, attend to events or anything… be sure that people will ask who are you? what have you done so far? what are you doing now? and anything that they can come up with. We are not asking you to write when do you brush your hair and how many sock wear daily, but a couple of details about things you like in FOSS and project you’re in can help.

Is there a human behind that nick?

We would like to know your real name and if there is a way to contact you. Doesn’t matter if you rather a mail, twitter, fb or smoke signal… please, provide us some way to get in touch and make things happen.

Now, cool thing about wiki is that anyone can do whatever they want (but please make it readable), however I know that there is lazy people that simply doesn’t want to get involved with complicated styles (even if they like them)… so let me provide some ideas and you can choose any you like:

• Yes, you can use a template! Even if isn’t easier, is the one I use. just click on edit and copy content, and then just add your information following the info-text in your own page. DO NOT EDIT THIS ONE plis plis plis. Follow this link to see my template. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica/Template-User
• Yes… if you’re too lazy I can do it for you… but make my job easier. Please follow this link, complete the info and send it to me through mail. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tatica/Template-User-Mail

Si eres de habla hispana, da click en este enlace para leer la versión en español

In our past meeting we finally pick a date that doesn’t collide with RHSummit and don’t increase prices (hollidays). FUDCon Margarita 2012 will take place on June 14-15-16-17. Even if this cut off 2 weeks from planning we are all happy with this date.

You can read Logs and Minutes in here: Minutes (spanish) and Logs (spanish)

Also, we are just waiting for the appoval letter from UDO Margarita (Guatamare) which will be the venue for this event. UDO, Universidad de Oriente, is a University that has been open to students from all arround our country since 1969. You can read more about UDO in this link (Spanish)

Every week we get a new contributor that helps the team and adds a key spot. We will spend weekend working on Sponsorship letters (final tweaks), Marketing stuff and Sponsorship request since local sponsors LOVE to see everything organized. I’m sure that next week we will start to reach more goals.

Work as a team and keep everything open and clear is the OpenSource way to build a community… I really hope this small weekly-posts about what’s happening with FUDCon LATAM can provide a small window that helps us to reach the transparency goal, and give everyone the chance to, not only know what’s going on, but also provide feedback (even if you’re not in Venezuela).

Sigue el trabajo duro en empaquetamiento, esta semana en curso deben cerrarse algunos casos

Ya Unicorn tiene solicitud de revisión oficial en bugzilla.

1. Documentando
   • Browser_DBus_Bridge
   • Empaquetando Ruby 1.9, algunas notas
   • Sinatra contenido estático
   • Fedora-review
   • Gem2rpm
   • Mock, mejoras al wiki
   • find, algunas notas
   • Xrandr, mejorando el wiki, configuración de dos monitores
2. Empaquetando
   • Actualización de estado y listado de mi paquetes
   • Empaquetar jnunemaker-matchy, nuevo
   • Empaquetar rubygem-raisal, progresos
   • Empaquetar rubygem-wrongdoc, progresos
   • Empaquetar rubygem-tidy_ffi, progresos
   • Empaquetar rubygem-rr, progresos
   • Empaquetar rubygem-unicorn, BZ creado
   • Empaquetar rubygem-session, progresos
   • Empaquetar rubygem-raindrops, progresos

En lo personal y siguiendo en el tema de la mitología venezolana, me compré El dueño de la luz, un cuento Warao maravilloso, cómprelo y disfrútelo.

- Gomix -

One of the things that always make me feel happy when friends ask me “why are you part of Fedora” is that everyday you will find a great idea, a great project or an awesome team to be part of. When we change our status from “user” to “contributor”, we agree to teach what we know and try to make FOSS tools and strategies go further. So now let me tell you about our new project… Fedora Videos:

What is Fedora Videos?

Our contributor Nitesh Narayan Lal came up with an idea to create a serie of videos and give our users an interface to check them on an easier way. We could say that we want to teach fedora through videos… but I’m sure that this project might have bigger goals in a short lapse.

Will be there a guidelines?

Yes, but consider it more like “recommendations”. We want to gather the best videos from the net, created by users and enthusiast, and turn them info Fedora official videos. Yes… we are thinking on give you an intro/outro and some easy tips so our job making translations and sharing can be easier. Right now we are working on this guidelines and you can actually check how it goes in here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Niteshnarayan/video_tutorials/Guidelines

How can I search though so many Videos?

Yes, But we need your help! We think that use the *Join Fedora categories* might be a good start, but we need more sub-categories. Nitesh has done a great work on this… can you help us improve it a bit more? Check: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Niteshnarayan/video_tutorials/Guidelines#Video_Categories

Current Tasks

In our amazing first meeting we start with some task that are currently under development. Tasks so far goes this way:

• Create a guidelines for official videos – bckurera, tatica and Nitesh Guidelines first draft
• Create a guidelines for submit and publish videos – bckurera, tatica and Nitesh Guidelines first draft
• Categorize video sections by interests or teams – Nitesh Sections first draft
• Check privacy, licenses and Ads for each service and Check on HTML5 alternatives who link you to the theora – FranciscoD: Analysis

Now, on a more personal task I’m needing people who have some experience with Video edit and intro creations. I might be able to do a Blender intro but I want to have some experienced hand to have some support and guide. Let me know if you can give us a hand

If I have an idea to share, a video to spread or just want to be part of this project, what should I do?

All mayor stuff will be online at our wiki, however, if you can make it to our meetings and share one hour weekly with us will be amazing. We will gather every Thursday at 1530UTC (Check your local time/date here)

After our Fedora Videos meeting I found really interesting how organized are Fedora APAC community members. I must be honest, beside help them with some FUDCon Pune tasks I had no clue about what was going on at APAC. So I decide to stay until midnight (LATAM) and check out this saturday APAC meeting (morning).

Following the rules

* Respecting Meetings protocol: Dear lord… was so nice to have people respecting IRC meeting protocols that I really felt on heaven. When you have a really structured meetings wiki page, that people actually reads, everything is just easier.

* Knowing zodbot: everything is easier when you know how to work with zodbot. First time I see on a meeting that all attendees are mark as chair for a meetin (even me).

* Quorum: Is really nice to see a lot of people being at meetings and participating. Quorum is always an issue at any meeting. either we talk about time/date collide or just people not beign interested. Community members should try a bit harder to attend to meetings (even if sometimes are bored), you might always know about something new or provide a good idea.

* Mistakes: If you make a mistake, get slow on sending your message, got some lag, your nick was jumping or just missunderstood something… don’t make a big deal and keep the meeting going. Everyone can make a mistake, so don’t turn it into a meeting topic.

* Local leaders show up: This might be the most interesting, as community contributor, that you can find on a meeting. When a local (or general) leader shows up and interact on the meeting means that people care. Motivation and example arethea key that we should try to take advantage of every time we can.

Activities to spread Fedora

* Ton of Release Parties: Yes… perhaps only 2 so far, but they are working a lot and are already organized for this activities. This only encourage me to plan a Fedora Release Party full with Beefy Miracles

* Marketing Swags: When we talk about a big region this is a common issue that is always hard to work with. At LATAM we are still working on this, however, we are 21 countries (plus 9 dependencies), and even if we still have some unexplored places, we have to deal with shipping prices that most of the times, are equal to bring swags from EMEA.

* Media: I don’t know if I’m the only that receives perhaps 300% more tickets from APAC that from anywhere else. This means that Fedora media-program is beign effective in this region. Perhaps simplify how we send media, how we produce it and who can really make shipments can be a solution. For those locations where our users cannot get (or is too expensive) maybe contact a local company, school or college might be a solution. I guess is easier just to send a couple of bucks to a local person to buy a dvd pack that ship a single dvd through mail.

Sorry Shakthimaan – by Shreyank Gupta

I will keep trying to attend to each regional meeting. I think that know what’s happening all arround the world can teach us how to improove. Take a look arround, learn from your peers goals and failures, and make everyone take a step into change. “I never thought we could transform the world, but I think every day you can transform things.”- Françoise Giroud.

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Is really cool to see how FUDCon Margarita is taking shape. I always love to see how an idea become something real and how people envolved work as a team to acomplish each goal. Fedora is the kind of place where you want to hang out if you want to be part of something

This week was full of tasks. We had our first meeting, which was really productive, and we delegate most of the tasks. That’s the way to work as team, however, we need to be more open and inform the rest of what we are doing, so our task don’t collide. We separate task this way: Travels – Location – Marketing.

You can find meeting logs and minutes in here: All minutes are in here… yes, in spanish: Minutes – Minutes (text) – Log

Acording to artwork, I have been working on some posters (which were awful) but thx to the help of our amazing team have started to take some shape. Like always, you can see progress on my tatica.Fedorapeople space or just ping me directly.

We are still dealing with dates and location since RHsummit is at same week we wanted to held FUDcon… but with our amazing team I’m sure we will figure this out soon.

Remember to join us next week, wednesday at 2230UTC (check your local time in here) at #fudcon-planning (and yes… everyone can attend, Fedora contributor or just an enthusiast)

Note: Now you might be asking yourself: Why is she posting this in english and not spanish? Because i need -some- of our sponsors to know what are we doing in their native language If you want to read this in spanish, please click here

Uso Fedora desde hace años y siendo una distribución pionera fue una de las primeras de incorporar GNOME3 (si es que no fue realmente la primera)  por defecto, mi primer contacto con GNOME3 fue el año pasado en el FudCon Panamá y en el momento me pareció una propuesta interesante, sin embargo también me parecía un cambio bastante drástico para un escritorio que acostumbraba a ser bastante simple y enfocado a hacer a sus usuarios productivos.

No me malinterpreten, no pienso que GNOME3 con su gnome-shell sea malo, de hecho pienso que puede ser un dolor de cabeza para antiguos usuarios de gnome, pero en compensación algo muy atractivo para los nuevos usuarios, de hecho decidí darle una buena oportunidad (cosa que no hice cuando salio KDE4 y en ese tiempo usaba KDE) y lo use un buen tiempo, pero no corría bien en mi laptop pentium 4 dual core de 3GHZ y 2 GB de ram, así que empece a usar LXDE en consecuencia.

Use LXDE hasta que me conseguí con el proyecto CINNAMON, este escritorio realmente me ha fascinado con su belleza y funcionalidad, algunos pensarán que se parece a Windows, poco me importa, este escritorio se monta sobre GNOME3, pero dando un look&feel completamente diferente, funcional, productivo, sin dejar de ser moderno y atractivo, tiene efectos, sencillos pero que a la vez pueden llegar a atraer a los usuarios novatos sin causar un trauma a los usuarios antiguos.

Que es Cinnamon?

Cinnamon es un shell para gnome3, en algunos lados dicen que es un fork de gnome-shell, está programado en javascript como gnome-shell y da una experiencia de usuario completamente diferente a la experimentada con gnome-shell dentro de gnome3, está enfocado en la usabilidad por medio de una interfase pulcra y sencilla , está siendo desarrollado activamente siendo un proyecto de la gente de Linuxmint que actualmente se está convirtiendo en una bola de nieve colina abajo  y está arrastrando de forma masiva a muchos entusiastas y colaboradores que piensan que Cinnamon es lo que gnome-shell debió ser.

El menú en Cinnamon

Una de las cosas que condeno de Gnome3, es la cantidad de movimientos de mouse que tengo que hacer para abrir una aplicación, vamos a comparar los movimientos de mouse para abrir una aplicación en el gnome clásico, el GNOME3 con gnome-shell y el GNOME3 con Cinnamon:

Lanzar una aplicación en Gnome clásico en ubuntu – Imagen tomada de http://blog.rastersoft.com/?p=836

Lanzar una aplicación en Gnome3 con gnome-shell en ubuntu – Imagen tomada de http://blog.rastersoft.com/?p=836

Lanzador de aplicación de mi escritorio con Cinnamon en Fedora 16 con Gnome3

Como pueden ver, la productividad salta a la vista, es mucho más rápido acceder a items de menú en Cinamon y la versión anterior de Gnome o Gnome3 con vista clásica.

Instalar Cinnamon

Instalar  Cinnamon en fedora es extremadamente sencillo, sin embargo Cinnamon aún no es un paquete oficial en Fedora, por lo tanto tenemos que configurar un repositorio externo para instalarlo y tener actualizaciones (como root):

curl http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/cinnamon/fedora-cinnamon.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cinnamon.repo

yum install cinnamon

Si ya tiene gnome3 y tiene su sistema actualizado entonces verá que solo se instalará un pequeño paquete de aproximadamente 1Mb (no recuerdo si tiene unas dependencias adicionales pequeñas), debe salir de su sesión y escoger en el gdm la sesión de ingreso Cinnamon, si quiere instrucciones más detalladas puede consultar el siguiente enlace (en ingles):

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/01/04/how-to-install-cinnamon-on-fedora-16/

Enlaces recomendados:

• http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/customize-your-cinnamon-desktop-with-javascript
• http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/01/05/how-to-customize-cinnamon-on-fedora-16-and-linux-mint-12/
• http://blog.rastersoft.com/?p=836
• http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

Imágenes de mi escritorio:

 Click en las miniaturas para agrandar

Finalizando:

Cinnamon es definitivamente un gran escritorio, que aprovecha todas las potencialidades de Gnome, es mucho más rápido (aunque sigue siendo recomendado para computadoras con buenos recursos debido a Gnome3), tiene unos efectos de escritorio buenos sin rayar en la payasería por intermedio de compiz y que deben de funcionar en la mayoría de las computadoras, me parece que es un buen comienzo para todos aquellos usuarios novatos que vienen de Windows ya que se les puede resultar familiar y que está armando un gran revuelo actualmente lo que le augura un buen futuro si logran captar una gran comunidad de desarrolladores, diseñadores gráficos y usuarios, lo vengo usando desde hace ya varias semanas (poco más de un mes) y me resulta extraordinariamente estable y estoy muy contento usándolo.

Para todos aquellos que deseen probar Cinnamon sin instalarlo, la próxima semana estaré liberando un liveDVD de Fedora 16 que incluye Cinnamon, ya lo tengo hecho, pero estoy limando algunos detalles, sobre todo cambiando el hosting donde por lo general lo comparto por uno mucho más rápido en ancho de banda.

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Time for me to express my tasks and goals as a Board member.

Motivation, for none is a secret that i’m biased on the language
issues we have in a project such as Fedora, then, my tasks are
language oriented, i’m talking about spanish. Main high barriers i’ll
we be challenging are:

1. Teaching, easying, mentoring and sponsoring new Fedora packagers

• Basically it means drive rpmdev latam RPM branch (not limited to it)
• Doubling the actual figures of rpmdev graduates (goal => from 11 to 22 )
• Become a packaging sponsor or find other candidates to achieve
  further autonomy

2. Teaching, easying, mentoring and coauthoring new docs for Fedora
Documentation Projects

• Castillian as the native lang for it as it is actually for Software
  Management Guide (SMG)
• Basically it means drive rpmdev latam DOC branch
• Double the actual quantity (goal => from 1 to 2)
• Fedora Robotics Guide (Valentin Basel main author)
• Keep maintaining SMG for another year minimun

3. Teaching, easying, mentoring and codevel a new sw development for Fedora

• Drive rpmdev latam DEV branch
• Software incubator for latam developers
• Ruby and/or Python, Webapps as a possible focus
• A Webapp for Fedora
• Gamification to make it fun
• Goal => 1 succesfully developed and deployable app

All these three banches are driven by the language, Castillian and Portuguese since LATAM includes Brazil, but im personally focused on
what i can write well, Castillian.

I know i can’t reach those goals without contributors, but RPMDev LATAM already has a healthy committed group of them, i count on them, the list with no order at all follows (my most sincere thanks to them and please forgive me if i’m missing you):

1. Daniel Bruno
2. Domingo Becker
3. Alejandro Pérez
4. Abdel Martínez
5. Luis Bazán
6. Valentin Basel
7. Juan Manuel Rodriguez

cheers and lets get make it happen

- Gomix -

El LibreBus es un proyecto en el que se recorren varios países de la región centroamericana (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala) y se complementa con espacios de participación en Internet… Una veintena de personas pasajeras de diversas nacionalidades y distintas habilidades se unen por un tema común: la Cultura Libre y la promoción del conocimiento para todos. El LibreBus es una invitación al diálogo y al encuentro, a la creación de redes regionales para el fortalecimiento de una cultura centroamericana compartida.

El año pasado, el LibreBus viajó desde el 03 hasta el 16 de mayo de 2011, intercambiando experiencias alrededor del software libre, el conocimiento y la biodiversidad, la libertad de expresión y la libertad de compartir. La idea del recorrido, además de llegar a las distintas ciudades, es ir trabajando los conceptos, problematizando las propuestas, deconstruyendo esas “soluciones” que ya se tienen enquistadas en las ideas y promover así la discusión y reconstrucción colectiva de alternativas.

Si quieres ver como es el Librebus por dentro, como es la experiencia y te animas, entonces date unos 30min para que veas este clip. Creo que si tenemos tiempo de ver una serie en tv, ver las noticias o ver una peli en casa, esta es una peli que no solo nutrirá tu intelecto sino tu alma, porque las experiencias de vida se deben compartir. No olvides de visitarlos en: http://librebus.org/

Para quienes no pueden ver el embeded de youtube, el link directo es: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUXkC7Iu9I