Dear Fedora dudes,
please fix your graphical boot screen in your livecds, normally working videocards get this message without any clear clue on what to do. I see that google doesn’t have good responses, so to help the world be a better place while you fix this bug, here’s the answer:
just type linux or linux0 and hit enter.
You are welcome dear googler.
Note: The local video canvas is blank because my driver sucks for screenshots, check the remote canvas and see that the n800 actually shows a remote video. Trust me on this one :).
Revision numbers of what I’m using:
Those guys in the back made it again, we got another rocking release!
As always, release notes in Spanish are ready! (with some special bits this time).
(roughly translated from Spanish, check the original press release)
This March 7th and 8th, as part of the involucrate.org project, Lima will host an international FLOSS event that for the first time gets together the real actors of its development.
involucrate+GNOME is the name of this event, and despite the name makes the topic clear, there will be participation of diverse other FLOSS projects.
Thanks to the support by the GNOME Foundation and our generous sponsors, this time we’ll have the presense of developers from GNOME (Chile, Colombia), Dokeos from Belgium and peruvians from projects like Debian, Ubuntu, PHP, FreeBSD, GNOME, among others.
The website has more details about the schedule and the speakers, whom will be eager to share their experience and knowledge about this wonderful experience of contributing to FLOSS. There will be time for BoFs and hack sessions.
The event will have Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Computo y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima - Perú) as its venue.
Participation is free of charge, as long as you register yourself. We are waiting for you!
-involucrate.org Team
About involucrate.org
involucrate.org is a project coordinated by DebianPerú with the goal of promoting the participation of new peruvian contributors and developers in FLOSS projects.
Through the creation of spaces, momentum and ways that facilitate a close experience with the real actors behind FLOSS. We are looking to help create a point of reference, a model, that can lead our country to be noticeable in the worldwide FLOSS map.
It’s also a good excuse to repost the poster:
Epiphany with match bolding, substring matching, unicode searching and above all, the geekiest thing for a location bar: regexp support.
Thanks to some help from a confessed KDE fan (formerly known as Carlos Wertheman), we got this cool poster for the event!:
In case you like it so much you wanna print it, then you can grab a higher resolution version in Involucrate.org.
More news soon!
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(Travelling GNOME - Lima) In the land of Pisco and Doña Pepa, everything is going fine. The local gnomers are checking out the middle (because they are not the last nor the first) details for their upcoming event “Involucrate+ GNOME”.
So far so good, investors have shown interest in providing financial backup to the event, materializing this offers is expected to happen next week.
Local intertubes media startup Inventarte has already agreed to be one of the media partners for the event recording a live show of their usual video material, interviews and lots of fun expected. “I would even dress up as Konky for the interviews” said Impagable’s Carlos Wertheman. No organization team member wanted to confirm the existence of a Konky costume or plans for getting one, they didn’t deny it either.
Another successful local startup focused on recording events and conferences, Eventos en video decided to once again show their support for free software providing the talk recording service. The conference videos will be freely available in their site for everyone to watch and learn. On exclusive for The Travelling GNOME, Laura Anaya said that the company “has plans to produce a Behind the Conference tv series, a reality show, and this might be the perfect chance for doing it”.
One of the conference organization members confirmed that international speakers are about to confirm their travelling dates and talk topics, he assured that the schedule would be publicily available next week. “They are surely coming, 2 of them already started walking this way” -said Diego Escalante.
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This March, Lima will change forever.
After some work, my patch for gnome bug #311209 was accepted by Christian. So now your download dialog will sport some bling!.
The notification will popup when you start downloading something while the download dialog is hidden (not minimized, but hidden). To hide it, just click the status icon. Watch for yourself:
(click to skip wp’s ugly forced scaling).
Also , gnome bug #327734 has just been half fixed, meaning that you can now cancel more than one download at a time.
Merry Christmas!
Election is over!. It was quite an interesting ride to be a candidate, I got 52 votes which tells me that there are 52 foundation members crazy enough to trust me… you should go check your heads my friends.
Seriously, thanks to everyone who voted for me and encouraged me during the process. I feel happy to have received trust from 1/3 of the voters
And of course, good luck to the new Board members! you can count with my help.
Some hacking
Later today, after the electoral booze ran out, I scratched my own itch and filled gnome bug #503173. I run gnome-system-monitor by mistake everyday because I click on it by accident when trying to switch to other workspaces. Patch attached if you want to be able to turn that off!.
Also, days ago I attached some patches for adding some bling to Epiphany’s download manager : gnome bug #327734 and gnome bug #311209. One for adding notifications to new downloads when the window is hidden and one for being able to cancel more than one download at a time.
Technology that you can only dream of.
Earlier this cycle, I did a quick patch for adding previews for the file chooser, no more nautilus+epiphany when uploading images. Another self-scratching.
I hope to be able to get some more stuff done for 2.22, I suddenly feel hacky again :).
Events and kung-fu-rences
We are on the final days before DíaDebian2007, Rudy created a Facebook event but nobody has cared to join it… doesn’t surprise me, it’s not like people here care about Facebook. By the way, I can’t say how much the lack of default privacy of Facebook scares the midochlorians out of me.
The event will be at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería this Saturday, from 3pm to 7pm (that’s 8pm to 2am UTC), you can check the schedule. It’s gonna kick ass.
Tomorrow or after-tomorrow we’ll go to our local underground provider to make some pins for giving away this Saturday. We have some designs in mind, the finalists are these (click to see the non-stretched version -damn wp):
I hope to take a good ammount of pictures, wish us luck.
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