Well I’ll continue my english lessons. Once at Harmon Hall I talked about a US Army experiment to learn another language. They started “language villages” where his environment was absolutely in the X language of the village and everybody learned the new language in three or four months.

So If i’m blogging (or trying to blog) in english, and I listen music in english language all the time. I’ll start also to microblog in english.

But as I have more than 200 followers in twitter and identi.ca I’ll create new accounts because many people and friends find disturbing follow and read twitt/dents in another languges different from spanish.

So my old accounts in twitter and identi.ca will remain open. But I’ll post only in this new accounts (twitter, identi.ca). I’m trying to unplug facebook from identi.ca but I don’t know how. Maybe latter I found the solution.

Thanks to all my followers but it’s time for the next step. If you wish you can follow me in the new accounts (in pseudo english). Thanks

posted by admin
Tags: tuxtor
Filed under: Shouts from my head

Not at home anymore.

Actually I’m working on three projects. One as a main job and two complementary projects (I need a new laptop BTW). Many years ago a buddy wrote in my blog a sentence like this “You will die writing small programs with Free Software”.  Years later I’m here working with, Java, PostgreSQL, Glassfish, Tomcat, Richfaces, Icefaces, Netbeans, Eclipse, Subversion. All Free software .

Looks like I have the Job that I ever wanted: “Internet without a firewall or proxy, no dressing rules, a good and powerfull (very powerfull) Linux desktop, JEE+SOA+domain driven architecture”. And thanks to God this job knocks to my door. I never looked for it. By the moment I’m happy with this.

But . . .

The Job reallity is very very different. A year ago in the classrooms explaining SOA (as auxiliary teacher at University) I never Imagined how hard is write enterprise software. Work with this tools is good. The environment is fine. But is a work like another one and is very stressfull and fullfilled of responsability. Cut off times, merge the code with another buddy code, zero day bugs, PermGenSpace, etc.

Maybe let the freelance world was a good step. Let see it in the next months.

And the life just continues . . .

posted by admin
Tags: java, tuxtor
Filed under: Freedom tutorials, Shouts from my head

It’s a filler post. You can wait for another post if you want .

I was thinking about my future. And this are the “anchors” that give me “encountered feelings” about the future. I need to forget them by the moment.

1) I need to forget the pleasure that you obtain playing games twenty hours at day. That isn’t possible anymore.

2) I need to forget (by the moment) the good “karma” about the University classrooms. The university was good but is time to move on.

3) I need to forget the feeling about .net freelance working. This don’t need more explanation xD

4) I need to forget the Thursday Naruto prime time. Because I spend my precious time in a laboral day.

5) I need to forget Brocoli. I ate very much Brocoli in my childhood. (ROFL this sentence looks like a “sesame street: My first English book).

6) I need to forget the weekend parties/”sabados groseros”/”chupes”/drinking journeys. I never was a “party” man but I need to spend my time on important things. I started to work in this and I’m on the way .

And the most important . . .

7) I need to forget my house. Yeah the doors will be open for me. But six years ago I saw my door and understand it: That was the last time that I saw it as MY HOME. I need to find my own place.

posted by admin
Tags: tuxtor
Filed under: Shouts from my head

I’m not a birthday fanatic. But this in particular was very good. I’m a bit dissapointed because with twenty two years I feel like I’m getting old and I want to do a lot of things. I didn’t finish all my “before twenty two years goals”, but I’m working on that and I did a mv before_22_goals.txt before_23_goals.txt.

I take the birthdays only as a “reflexive date” but this year was different and I received good surprises. Maybe I have to enjoy more and plan less.

Nobody could be sad with this geek cake. Starting the Gentoo logo and Larry the Cow .

Thanks to my girlfriend . And the countdown for twenty three has started . . .

posted by admin
Tags: cake, gentoo
Filed under: Shouts from my head

As we mention in the web site. SLGT born with the objective to coordinate the Free Software efforts between Free Software community and without being a dictatorial and intrusive entity (or without being an entity).

Hey I come to this site looking for tractor pictures but this is interesting. What is the Free Software movement?

The Free Software movement started at 1983 when Richard Stallman (from now will be called “barbuchin hippie”) started the GNU project. The primary goal for the project was give freedom to the computers users creating and replacing the software with restrictive license terms.

Do you support  Free Software or Open Source?:

This question looks stupid but, in the communities many people have different point of views. The “barbuchin hippie” started this movement with a more ethical point of view. But many people consider it very radical so they started the therm Open Source giving to the free software a more commercial point of view.

In SLGT we collaborate with both philosophies.

What is exactly SLGT, a community?, a board of directors?, guys with long hair eating pizza?

Because the objectives and philosophy differs from one community to another. At 2009 many members of Free Software groups talked about the growing community and propose to share our efforts in a centralized entity including:

• Ask for help and specially ask for people support in the different Free Software meetings/events.
• Notify and invite the communities to the  different events (talks/meetings/bug squash parties/release parties).
• Coordinate bigger events (CGSOL, FLISOL).
• And optionally but not important. Have centralized support medium.

Who give us authority to do this?

Jabba the Hut, he-man and Chuck Norris support SLGT . . .

Seriously we don’t believe in authorities and consider ourselves as another effort. We are always open to new communities, feedback, members having an horizontal structure (see dohkogt post for more details about communities structure – in spanish -). In the beginning  we invited all communities that we could remember . All LUG’s and almost all Free Software communities are participating .

Could you explain it with an example?:

I’m a Free Software activist member of Java Users Group from Guatemala, Lugusac and founder of the almost extinct Shekalug (sad very sad ). At Lugusac we have a small-mid size activity called SSL (Free Software Saturdays). As an university Linux User Group we coordinate this event and give two talks about Free Software and Free Culture almost every fifteen days.

Actually Lugusac has almost 500 members in the mailing list but 10 of 12 active members in the real life xD. So when we needed people for the talks, we asked for collaboration in SLGT mailing list. And people from Ubuntu-gt, Debian-gt, . . . were glad to help and the “central hub” worked .

I like Free Software. Can I be a member of Slgt?

Sure but SLGT only exist in internet in:

• The mailing list
• Support and contact IRC channels
• China bird death rebellion forum (yeah almost everybody hate forums )

The right path to start in free software movement is to select the closest Free Sofware Comunity of your interest.

posted by admin
Tags: Free, linux, Open, SLGT, software, Source
Filed under: Freedom tutorials