HTTP/2 200 cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin etag: W/"73a6a7db0376c897871b0017e7c116afafba15d20158db106a82aa429c93ffef" date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:32:17 GMT content-type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8 server: blogger-renderd expires: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:32:18 GMT cache-control: public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=1 x-content-type-options: nosniff x-xss-protection: 0 last-modified: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:25:55 GMT content-encoding: gzip content-length: 5453 x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291262622025-07-19T01:25:55.491-05:00Libre Software, IP Telephony, Colombia and other thoughts...Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-23101970493597733692011-09-28T11:51:00.003-05:002011-09-28T12:16:27.451-05:00This weekend we'll be having the 4th version of the Colombian Mini-Debconf. It will be held in the <a href="https://www.otraparte.org/casa-museo/otraparte.html">Otraparte Museum</a>, in the city of Medellin. The cool thing this year is that we'll be having mostly Debian contributors than just users, with the kind participation of <a href="https://www.v7w.com/anibal/">Anibal Monsalve</a>, who is currently in the country.<br /><br />There will be several 10-min lightening talks, followed by a key signing party and some actual work in packaging, and of course we'll be having some beers with Debian friends.<br /><br />More info (in Spanish): <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2011">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2011</a>Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-34508111567626882512011-03-30T15:33:00.008-05:002011-03-30T16:05:21.049-05:00After &gt;7 years of working on my own Linux machine, I now have to work on a Windows XP laptop for my new employer.<br /><br />It's been almost a week and a half now, and I think I'm starting to get used to it (as far as a Gnome user can be), thanks to the following tools, that I had to install in order to survive and not getting mad:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.mozilla.com/firefox"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Firefox</span></a>: for obvious reasons, the first thing is to get rid of IE.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.vim.org"><span style="font-weight: bold;">gVim</span></a>: thank $DEITY there is a windows port for Vim.<span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Enlace" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"><img src="img/blank.gif" alt="Enlace" class="gl_link" border="0" /></span></span></li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/download.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Putty</span></a>: of course, I still need to log into several Linux machines.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.mremote.org"><span style="font-weight: bold;">mRemote</span></a>: its a wrapper around putty to handle several sessions, and also supports RDP and other protocols.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://winscp.net/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WinSCP</span></a>: just because mRemote doesn't support SCP.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.mucommander.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">muCommander</span></a>: to browse the file system in a decent way. It also supports SCP, but I haven't been able to customize it properly (opening files with gVim), so I'm not using it really.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://xchat.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">XChat</span></a>: its always cool to hang around IRC.<br /></li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.pidgin.im"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pidgin</span></a>: to deal with the social mess of chats/contacts out there.<br /></li></ul><br />There is also a <a href="https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">GEdit</span></a> for windows, but I seldom use it.Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-22753185115293966082010-03-21T14:15:00.002-05:002010-03-21T14:57:09.281-05:00Today is the last day of this conference, which has been a great experience of interaction between Central America and Caribbean communities. Yesterday we had packaging, BTS, kernel, pbuilder and quilt related talks. We also expanded the web of trust with a key signing party with almost 30 participants. Even a BoF about people interested in VoIP was held before going downtown to share some beers :)<br /><br />This morning we had talks about hands on maintaining and translation tasks, we had also a group photo, and a quick visit to the Panama Canal.<br /><br />Although it has been hard for me to and others to identify common areas of interest towards future work in Debian, it seems to me that these could be centered around l10n and i18n issues, along with packaging and digital inclusion projects.Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-35592514956447700292010-03-20T11:45:00.005-05:002010-03-20T12:04:15.185-05:00Yesterday began the central america and caribbean MiniDebconf at Panama. Over 50 people from Mexico, Belice, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Salvador, Colombia and Venezuela, among others, are here to share experiences around Free Software and Debian contributions. All this is possible to several sponsors from Panama and SPI, and the hard work from many people, specially Anto Recio, Mauro Rosero, Carolina Flores, Gunnar Wolf and the local team.<br /><br />More info(in spanish), including live streaming url can be found on: https://softwarelibre.ca/wiki/MiniDebconf2010<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">update:</span> Also, on a personal note, I'll take the chance of this event to start my transition to a stronger gpg key, so If you have signed my old one, please take a look at: https://people.debian.org/~alerios/key-transition-2010-03-20.txtAlejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-1157643702729366892006-09-07T10:37:00.000-05:002006-09-07T10:41:42.750-05:00<tt>As announced on [1], we had the first Colombian Mini-DebConf[2] at</tt><br /> <tt>August 19th and 20th 2.006.</tt><br /><br /> <tt>14 Debian enthusiasts from all over the country joined the event, and we</tt><br /> <tt>even got the help from Luciano Bello from Argentina, who was invited to</tt><br /> <tt>the related event "Jornadas de Software Libre" [3] that was held in</tt><br /> <tt>parallel. </tt><br /><br /> <tt>Colombian Debian community is just starting to get into the work and we</tt><br /> <tt>couldn't manage to do any BSP, but we did an on-hands workshop on</tt><br /> <tt>general Debian tasks and package maintainance. At the end, we also had a</tt><br /> <tt>KSP, organized by Santiago Ruano Rincon[4]. At least 4 of the 14</tt><br /> <tt>assistants have continued the work that was started that day.</tt><br /><br /> <tt>Santiago was the only DD present, and only Luciano and I have had any</tt><br /> <tt>previous and continued experience at the NMP, so the three of us made</tt><br /> <tt>the talking and helped the assistants on their work. </tt><br /><br /> <tt>A more detailed report can be found in Spanish at [5].</tt><br /><br /> <tt>[1] <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00002.html">https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00002.html</a></tt><br /> <tt>[2] (spanish) <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2006">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2006</a></tt><br /> <tt>[3] (spanish) <a href="https://jsl.unicauca.edu.co/">https://jsl.unicauca.edu.co</a></tt><br /> <tt>[4] (spanish) <a href="https://afrodita.unicauca.edu.co/%7Esantiago/ksp-jsl2006/">https://afrodita.unicauca.edu.co/~santiago/ksp-jsl2006/</a></tt><br /> <tt>[5] (spanish)</tt><br /> <tt><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2006/Informe">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianColombia/MiniDebconf2006/Informe</a></tt><br /> <tt> </tt><tt><br /></tt>Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-1150550172269371642006-06-17T07:47:00.000-05:002006-06-17T08:16:12.280-05:00<span style="font-family: verdana;">Yes, it's true. Almost 6 months have passed since the last release and we have worked a lot to improve </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://destar.berlios.de">Destar</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> and make it more stable and useful. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Basically, this beta release contains:</span><br /> <ul style="font-family: verdana;"> <li>A new interface style. </li> <li>Referencial integrity. </li> <li>Better i18n support. </li> <li>Better statistics for CDR.</li> <li>Use of some <a href="https://www.asterisk.org">asterisk</a> 1.2.X new features.<br /> </li> <li>Many new features. </li> <li>Several Bug fixes.</li> </ul> <span style="font-family: verdana;">We hope you can enjoy testing it and helping us release the 0.2 version. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana;"> You can find it at:</span><br /> <a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2112">https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2112</a><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana;"> And file the bugs you find on:</span><br /> <a style="font-family: verdana;" href="https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/index.php">https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/index.php</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Greetings, and thanks for using Destar :)</span>Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-1150475704680849712006-06-16T10:57:00.000-05:002006-06-16T15:42:08.573-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3666/966/1600/virtual-monument-openssh.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3666/966/400/virtual-monument-openssh.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Because our Internet lives would not be the same without their SSH implementation.<br />Our eternal gratitude to them.<br /></div>Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29126262.post-1149193302785568802006-06-01T15:15:00.000-05:002006-06-01T15:23:11.746-05:00After Debconf6, I realized that I have to improve my English, and there are some things that I should be writing in a more international language too (like Destar, Debian and Asterisk stuff), so let this blog be the tool to achieve those two goals. Welcome, and stay tuned!Alejandro Rios Peñahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804942289789120050noreply@blogger.com0