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1. news-o-o: Kami ingin semua “berita komunitas” diterjemahkan ke dalam empat bahasa yang paling banyak digunakan dalam komunitas (Indonesia, Spanyol, Portugis, Rusia – ini hanya permulaan, hubungi kami jika Anda ingin mengusulkan diri Anda sebagai penerjemah untuk bahasa lainnya)
2. Sebuah nawala (newsletter) komunitas baru: Terinspirasi dari para pendahulu, kami ingin membuat buletin komunitas yang isinya:
   1.  Menampilkan individu-individu luar biasa dari seluruh komunitas, menyoroti apa yang mereka lakukan dan bagaimana mereka melakukannya, melalui wawancara atau liputan
   2.  Membagikan tutorial dan panduan yang berguna tentang cara menggunakan sistem openSUSE Anda dan bagaimana Anda dapat segera mulai berkontribusi
   3.  Menampilkan fitur dari paket menarik yang mungkin membutuhkan perhatian
   4.  Menunjukkan tempat-tempat dalam komunitas di mana minat dan keterampilan Anda paling baik digunakan
   5.  Mengumumkan acara & aktivitas komunitas, sehingga Anda memiliki kesempatan untuk bertemu geeko lainnya
   6.  …secara keseluruhan, kumpulan postingan blog, artikel, dan ulasan yang muncul dalam beberapa minggu terakhir atau lebih, untuk memastikan hal-hal tertentu menonjol dari aliran waktu yang tak terhindarkan.

• https://t.me/openSUSE_newscom
• https://matrix.to/#/#newscom:opensuse.org
• https://discord.gg/opensuse#newscom

Le 3 Mars dernier, un jalon très important a été réalisé. En effet, SUSE et openSUSE sont arrivés au même niveau en sorties de openSUSE Factory. Se documenter plus sur « Backports » qui en gros est un partage de sources, packages etc. entre SUSE et openSUSE. Ce qui veut dire que la communauté openSUSE profitera des […]

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Lo dije ayer y me reafirmo hoy, esta semana va a estar dedicada a promocionar el evento de este fin de semana la 1ª Cumbre Software Libre y Educación. Si ayer hablé de la Conferencia «La era de la digitalización en las aulas» de Javier Sepúlveda, hoy toca hablar de la mesa redonda «Software Libre y Educación en la Comunitat Valenciana» en la que además de Richard M. Stallman estarán presentes destacados educadores y desarrolladores ligados al Software Libre. Y yo.

Mesa redonda «Software Libre y Educación en la Comunitat Valenciana» en la 1ª Cumbre Software Libre y Educación

Me repito pero es que hacer otra cosa sería en realidad traicionar la filosofía de la compartir el conocimiento. Y es que la explicación del anuncio oficial está más que bien.

En el segundo día de la cumbre, 13 de marzo a las 17 horas CET, celebraremos una mesa redonda que contará con la presencia de:

• Richard M. Stallman: Fundador del Movimiento del Software Libre, del sistema operativo GNU y de la Free Software Foundation. Más info aquí.
• Baltasar Ortega (un servidor): Docente de secundaria apasionado por el Software Libre, miembro de KDE España y de Gnu/Linux València.
• David Montalva: Profesor de sistemas y aplicaciones informáticas, actualmente trabajando en la digitalización de la formación profesional, y durante diez años, gestionando la distribución educativa Lliurex.
• Raul Rodrigo: Desarrollador oficial de la distribución de Lliurex desarrollada por la Generalitat Valenciana desde 2009. Participó en los congresos de Software libre organizados por la Generalitat Valenciana en 2010 y 2015. Actualmente trabaja en la empresa Alfatec Sistemas, S.L.
• Ricardo Nutz: Profesor de enseñanza secundaria por la especialidad de informática desde 1998. Actualmente es asesor técnico docente como formador del profesorado en la provincia de Alicante.
• Tàfol Nebot: Profesor de enseñanza secundaria por la especialidad de tecnología desde 2004, defensor del Software Libre.  Actualmente ejerce de asesor técnico docente en la provincia de Castellón.

Como todos los actos de la «1ª Cumbre Software Libre y Educación» el evento es exclusivamente en línea y retransmitiremos desde https://streaming.gnulinuxvalencia.org/fsed-summit.webm

Más información: GNU/Linux València

1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación

Este viernes empieza la 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación organizando la Asociación de Software Libre GNU/Linux València y Las Naves es altamente recomendable para todos y todas ya que contará con

Además, cuenta con un invitado de máximo nivel: Richard M. Stallman, fundador del movimiento del software libre, del sistema operativo GNU, de la Free Software Foundation (Fundación para el Software Libre) y defensor acérrimo de la Cultura Libre.

Más información: GNU/Linux València

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Dear community,

openSUSE has been known for years as an amazing, vast and buzzing community. But after many discussions with the many linguistic groups that compose the openSUSE mosaic, we feel that more could be done to facilitate communication and exchanges. We feel this is what makes a community of communities special: it thrives when all groups, from big to small, stick together and share the pleasure of sharing – be it knowledge, emotions or stories.

Nice words don’t do much alone, so the first two concrete changes we want to make:

1. news-o-o: We want to have all “community news” translated to the four most spoken languages within the community (Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian – this is only a beginning, get in touch with us if you want to propose yourself as a translator for more languages)
2. a new community newsletter: Getting inspiration from our ancestor, we want to create a community-wide newsletter that will, among other things:
   • feature amazing individuals from all over the community, putting the spotlight on what they do and how they do it, via interviews or self-coverage
   • share useful tutorials and guides on how to use your openSUSE system and how you can quickly get started with contributing
   • feature interesting packages that may use some love
   • expose places in the community where your interests and skills would be best put to use
   • announce community events & activities, so that you have a chance to meet up geekos of different shades of green
   • … overall, a finely curated collection of blog posts, articles and reviews that appeared in the last weeks or so, to make certain things stick out from the inescapable flow of time.

We are almost ready to get started, but we are still looking for 1-2 translator(s) to Russian.

Call to ‘“veteran contributors”: If you are a package maintainer or an infrastructure volunteer and you feel like your workflow could be improved or “parallelized” with help from additional volunteers, please do get in touch. Formation and delegation are a good way of strengthening bonds between communities.

As for working together, we will be adopting a flat, decentralized organization model, to avoid burdening a few people with a role that would be left hanging should they move on to other things. So there is no reason to worry that joining us will commit you to a year of weekly efforts. If you come up with a good idea, we’ll help you realize it, and that is all! No one will pressure you.

So if you are interested in helping us, or in being featured, or in getting involved in any way, please do ring us and tell us your story!

Your news & community friends

• https://t.me/openSUSE_newscom
• https://matrix.to/#/#newscom:opensuse.org
• https://discord.gg/opensuse#newscom

Esta semana casi va a ser monográfica, ya que quiero promocionar al máximo la Cumbre de Software Libre y Educación Comunidad Valenciana en su primera edición, así que espero que los lectores habituales del blog no se me enfaden mucho. De esta forma os invito a asistir a la conferencia que ofrecerá Javier Sepúlveda (director técnico de Valencia Tech y viejo conocido en estos lares) y que lleva por título «La era de la digitalización en las aulas» y que transmitirá el próximo viernes 12 de marzo a las 17 horas.

La era de la digitalización en las aulas en la Cumbre de Software Libre y Educación Comunidad Valenciana

Podría escribir una entrada pero es que en la página web de GNU/Linux Valencia lo han explicado a la perfección, así que solo me queda hacer el típico corta-pega para hacerlo:

Como consecuencia de la pandemia mundial de la Covid-19 y la consecuente cancelación de conferencias y eventos físicos alrededor de todo el mundo, conferenciantes, activistas y voluntarios de software libre, decidieron el pasado mes de agosto de 2020, poner en marcha una cumbre anual internacional sobre Software Libre y Educación.

Enmarcado en esta primera cumbre, nuestra Asociación, con el patrocinio de Las Naves, organiza el próximo viernes 12 de marzo a las 17:00 CET una conferencia que lleva por título «La era de la digitalización en las aulas».

Las restricciones nos obligan a que sea un evento exclusivamente en línea que retransmitiremos desde la url: https://streaming.gnulinuxvalencia.org/fsed-summit.webm

Javier Sepúlveda es miembro de GNU Education, director de VALENCIATECH y uno de los primeros socios de GNU/Linux València.

Más información: GNU/Linux València

1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación

Este viernes empieza la 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación organizando la Asociación de Software Libre GNU/Linux València y Las Naves es altamente recomendable para todos y todas ya que contará con

Además, cuenta con un invitado de máximo nivel: Richard M. Stallman, fundador del movimiento del software libre, del sistema operativo GNU, de la Free Software Foundation (Fundación para el Software Libre) y defensor acérrimo de la Cultura Libre.

Más información: GNU/Linux València

Why is that phone so special? My wife asked me. I was exited like a child with my shiny new toy: the PinePhone KDE Community Edition.

So how do you explain the history of failing efforts to get ‘real’ Linux on a smartphone in 5 minutes? How do you explain the difficulties of developing an operating system for the always changing ARM ecosystem?

I tried: It’s not normal that you can install an Operating System on a phone. Normally you have 2 choices: you buy an Android phone or you buy an Apple iOS phone. In both cases, the phone hardware (read: boot loader) is locked down. So you can’t change the Operating System. At least not easily (because you can root some Android phones).

Over the last 10 years, there have been many companies that tried (and failed) to develop their own Operating System that can compete with Android and/or Apple iOS. In historical order:

• Nokia Meamo/MeeGo in 2009/2010
• Palm/HP WebOS in 2009/2010
• Microsoft Windows Phone 8 / 8.1 / 10 in 2012/2014/2015
• BlackBerry 10 in 2013
• Mozilla Firefox OS in 2014
• Canonical Ubuntu Touch from 2014-2017
• Jolla Sailfish OS / X (on Sony Experia) from 2013 – present
• Samsung Tizen from 2017 – present

These companies failed to gain any traction in the market. That list makes it abundantly clear that it’s hard to develop a successful smartphone hardware and software combination.

But the open source community doesn’t take No for an answer. The great thing about the free and open source movement is that commercial success is not a requirement for continued development. Which means that 3 open source communities are still hacking to develop a ‘real’ open source Mobile Operating System:

• Ubuntu Touch, was continued by the UBPorts project in April 2017
• KDE Plasma Mobile, started development in July 2015
• Phosh, a GNOME shell for Purism Pure OS, started development in 2017

This development effort would be in vain if there was no smartphone that could run this software. But 2 hardware initiatives started roughly around the same time, and offered to build a true open source friendly smartphone:

• Purism Librem 5, announced in August 2017
• Pine64 PinePhone, announced in October 2018

This resulted in a perfect storm, because the Librem 5 started shipping in November 2019 and the PinePhone started shipping in January 2020. Both devices released in a rough state, but both software and hardware have improved over the months in 2020.

I played around with KDE Plasma Mobile during the FOSDEM conferences of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I couldn’t attend in 2020 and 2021. So that is my excuse to purchase a PinePhone KDE Community Edition, which was announced in December 2020. At the end of January 2021, I received my PinePhone with Manjaro Linux and KDE Plasma Mobile.

Unboxing the PinePhone

For me this was a very exiting event. I was very curious how the PinePhone would feel in real life. I expected it to be very plastic feeling. It did feel that way, but it didn’t feel cheap. It was well constructed.

I particularly like the inside of the phone. I like the physical dip (kill) switches, that are tucked neatly into the back of the phone. Personally, I will never use these, because I just don’t care. The same thing goes for the Pogo pins. Cool that they are there, but I will never use them. What I will use is the SD card slot. But I still need to figure out how to mount that persistently.

The screen is also fine. With 6 inches, the screen is sufficiently large. It has a resolution of 720×1440 pixels, which means that there is enough detail. And the colors are fine; for 150-200 dollars you can’t expect an AMOLED quality experience. The phone is also relatively thin.

Finally it has an USB-C connector on the bottom, which is a future proof solution. The front camera is 2 Megapixels and the back camera is 5 Megapixels. I don’t know how good they are, because the firmware and camera software are still in heavy development. In short: they don’t work except for showing a black and white image.

The software experience

After I put in the SIM card, I booted up the phone. The login screen is very nice, with the clock on the center of the screen. However, entering the PIN code (this always needs to be numbers) is a bit awkward because the ‘0’ is located on the right instead of located at the bottom, where you would expect it to be.

When you have unlocked the phone, it looks like a standard Android experience. You have a app drawer that you open by swiping up. Hold on to an icon and you can place it on the home screen. Touch the icon and it will open that app. Long press the home screen and you can add widgets or change the wallpaper. I haven’t found a way to setup multiple virtual desktop screens, so you can’t swipe left or right. You can add an Activities widget or a Pager widget, but it doesn’t do much at the moment.

If you swipe down, you will reveal the control center. Not everything is fleshed out. So sometimes touching an icon will result in you being redirected to the settings app. The flashlight works however! And the night color option works as well.

How to kill your PinePhone on Day 1

The first thing that I wanted to do was to update the software. I knew that the phone was running Manjaro linux. I didn’t have any experience with Manjaro, so I searched the internet how to update the system and found this handy instruction on the PinePhone wiki. This worked like a charm; via the Terminal app I was able to update my system. It was very cool to see all updates on the command line interface.

Next I wanted to install some software. And I wanted to use a GUI Software Manager. So I installed Pamac. That went fine. And although it didn’t fit my screen fully, I could search and install software. So I started by installing:

• Firefox
• Signal-desktop

The install didn’t go as planned. After restarting the phone, it didn’t boot anymore. Which meant I had turned my new toy into a brick. At first I was a bit disheartened. But then I read that the PinePhone always prefers the SD card over the internal memory. Which means that I could easily replace the operating system with something new. I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to install openSUSE on my PinePhone.

Installing openSUSE Tumbleweed on the PinePhone

I followed these installation instructions. The first thing I did was download the Jumpdrive image. I put in a small MicroSD card into my laptop and when I doubleclicked the image in Dolphin, this opened automatically in Gnome Disks and offered me to write it to the SD card. Then I put the SD card in the PinePhone and plugged in the USB-C connector. And I started up the phone.

The next step was to write the openSUSE image to the internal memory (eMMC) of the PinePhone. Again, I started downloading the openSUSE image, which you can find here. I have chosen to go with the KDE Plasma Mobile version, because I am used to KDE as my regular Desktop Environment as well. The next step is to Unzip the file, by opening the file with Ark.

And then click twice on the Extract button.

The next step is to open Disks and to select the dots and then click on Restore Disk Image.

The next step is to select the raw (Unzipped) image. You can simply ignore the error that your SD card (which is the internal eMMC memory) is bigger than the image that you are about the write. That is logical, because you are writing a 4GB image to a 16GB disk. And you will use (read: format) the full disk for that. So click Restore to continue.

Gnome Disks will show you the progress. When everything is done, you will see that the internal memory of the PinePhone is now divided into 3 partitions and some empty space.

The next step is to enlarge the ROOT partition. But you need a program named f2fs-tools to be installed for that to work. Use YaST to install these packages. After that use Gnome Disks to extend the partition. In the end you should have a ROOT partition of about 15 GB.

The next step is to remove the Jumpdrive MicroSD card from your PinePhone and boot the device. You should see the glorious openSUSE logo appearing.

Swipe up and put in the default Pin-code of 1234. Then put in the default Pin-code of your SIM card.

You will now see the Home screen with a recognizable openSUSE green wallpaper. A few tips to do first:

• Use Discover to update your phone to the latest version
• Use Discover to install all kinds of apps
• Change your password via the terminal (sudo passwd)

When changing your password, make sure that you use only numbers!!! Because your root password is also the Pin-code for unlocking the phone. Of course openSUSE will complain; just ignore that and enter the 4 number password again.

Conclusion

I am really happy with my PinePhone. Its a great toy for experiencing the state of Plasma Mobile and Phosh. For me it is also a delight that I can use openSUSE Tumbleweed, as I am familiar with Zipper for the command line. In the future, I will try out Phosh to see how far that has progressed. But that is a topic for another blog post.

Published on: 8th March 2021

Empezamos las semana compartiendo una nueva quedada de algunos de las primeras espadas de la comunicación gnu/linuxera. Y es que con el tema de «El futuro de GNU/Linux» se emitió y grabó el segundo evento de la nueva serie de «Charlas de 24H24L» que pretende seguir acercando a cualquiera que tenga interés por el mundo del Software Libre. No te la pierdas.

El futuro de GNU/Linux – Charlas 24H24L

El pasado 2020 finalizó con un macroevento podcastero llamado 2424L, el cual tenía como objetivo seguir difundiendo las bondades de los sistemas libre GNU/Linux.

Al parecer a su organizador, José Jiménez, le quedaron más ganas de hacer cosas y se propuso realizar las «Charlas de 24H24L» que consisten en una serie de encuentros informales sobre la Comunidad linuxera y que empezó con la dedicada a mi «oficio» y que llevaba por título «Blogs de GNU/Linux».

En otras palabras y para ser concreto, el pasado sábado 5 de Marzo a las 22:00 se emitió y grabó la segunda de «Las Charlas de 24H24L» donde se hablará del Futuro de GNU/Linux.

Los participantes fueron:

• Juan Febles, creador de Podcast Linux.
• Paco Estrada, creador de Compilando Podcast.
• David Marzal, podcaster de GNU/Linux Valencia y nuevo socio de KDE España.
• Alejandro Lopez, CEO de Slimbook.

La charla fue grabada con OBS Studio, utilizando Jitsi como servidor de comunicación y emitida en directo por Youtube con los comentarios activos para los oyentes para que todo el mundo pueda participar.

1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación

Aprovecho para recordaros que los eventos linuxeros no paran y que este viernes empieza la 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación organizando la Asociación de Software Libre GNU/Linux València y Las Naves es altamente recomendable para todos y todas ya que contará con

Además, cuenta con un invitado de máximo nivel: Richard M. Stallman, fundador del movimiento del software libre, del sistema operativo GNU, de la Free Software Foundation (Fundación para el Software Libre) y defensor acérrimo de la Cultura Libre.

“We got lucky”—it’s one of those phrases I listen out for during post incident or near-miss reviews. It’s an invitation to dig deeper; to understand what led to our luck. Was it pure happenstance? …or have we been doing things that increased or decreased our luck?   

There’s a saying of apparently disputed origin: “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”. There will always be opportunity for things to go wrong in production. What does the observation “we got lucky” tell us about our preparation? 

How have we been decreasing our luck?

What unsafe behaviour have we been normalising? It can be the absence of things that increase safety. What could we start doing to increase our chances of repeating our luck in a similar incident? What will we make time for? 

“We were lucky that Amanda was online, she’s the only person who knows this system. It would have taken hours to diagnose without her” 

How can we improve collective understanding and ownership? 

Post incident reviews are a good opportunity for more of the team to understand, but we don’t need to wait for something to go wrong. Maybe we should dedicate a few hours a week to understanding one of our systems together? What about trying pair programming? Chaos engineering?

How can we make our systems easier to diagnose without relying on those who already have a good mental model of how they work? Without even relying on collaboration? How will we make time to make our systems observable? What would be the cost of “bad luck” here? maybe we should invest some of it in tooling? 

If “we got lucky” implies that we’d be unhappy with the unlucky outcome, then what do we need to stop doing to make more time for things that can improve safety? 

How have we been increasing our luck? 

I love the extreme programming idea of looking for what’s working, and then turning up the dials. 

Let’s seek to understand what preparation led to the lucky escape, and think how we can turn up the dials.

“Sam spotted the problem on our SLIs dashboard”

Are we measuring what matters on all of our services? Or was part of “we got lucky” that it happened to be one of the few services where we happen to be measuring the things that matter to our users? 

“Liz did a developer exchange with the SRE team last month and learned how this worked”

Should we make more time for such exchanges or and personal learning opportunities? 

“Emily remembered she was pairing with David last week and made a change in this area”

Do we often pair? What if we did more of it?

How frequently do we try our luck?

If you’re having enough production incidents to be able to evaluate your preparation, you’re probably either unlucky or unprepared ;)

If you have infrequent incidents you may be well prepared but it’s hard to tell. Chaos engineering experiments are a great way to test your preparation, and practice incident response in a less stressful context. It may seem like a huge leap from your current level of preparation to running automated chaos monkeys in production, but you don’t need to go straight there. 

Why not start with practice drills? You could have a game host who comes up with a failure scenario. You can work up to chaos in production. 

Dig deeper: what are the incentives behind your luck?

Is learning incentivised in your team, or is there pressure to get stuff shipped? 

What gets celebrated in your team? Shipping things? Heroics when production falls over? Or time spent thinking, learning, working together?

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are often used to incentivise (enough) reliability work vs feature work…if the SLO is at threat we need to prioritise reliability. 

I like SLOs, but by the time the SLO is at risk it’s rather late. Adding incentives to counter incentives risks escalation and stress. 

What if instead we removed (or reduced) the existing incentives to rush & sacrifice safety. Remove rather than try to counter them with extra incentives for safety?

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Parece que la crisis del COVID-19 ha generado, tras el impacto inicial, un auge de eventos Comunitarios relacionados con el Software Libre. No hay más que ver el número y la calidad de ellos que aparecen en el blog, que solo recoge los que me da tiempo a conocer a fondo. No obstante el de hoy se podría poner en el top 5 de los mismos ya que se trata de la 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación, que está organizando la Asociación de Software Libre GNU/Linux València con la colaboración de Las Naves y que contará con la presencia de RIchard Stallman. Interesante, ¿no?

Cumbre Software Libre y Educación, 1ª Edición

Es un tema recurrente en el blog y clave si queremos que la filosofía del Software Libre impregne nuestra sociedad: el alumnado debe conocer las alternativas libres al Software que le rodea, así como las razones humanitarias que lo sustentan.

Es por ello que es importante que los docentes seamos los promotores de uso entre el alumnado y de su difusión entre el gran número de compañeras y compañeros que no lo conocen.

Además, debemos ser defensores a ultranza de la privacidad y libertad de nuestro alumnado ya que la empresas tecnológicas no lo van a hacer.

Justo por todo esto la 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación organizando la Asociación de Software Libre GNU/Linux València y las Naves es altamente recomendable para todos y todas y, en mi opinión, merece la máxima difusión.

Además, cuenta con un invitado de máximo nivel: Richard M. Stallman, fundador del movimiento del software libre, del sistema operativo GNU, de la Free Software Foundation (Fundación para el Software Libre) y defensor acérrimo de la Cultura Libre.

La 1ª Edición de la Cumbre Software Libre y Educación se celebrará a lo largo de 3 días de ponencias en línea que se inicia el próximo 12 de marzo en línea, pronto pondré los enlaces correspondientes, que tiene el siguiente y jugoso programa:

12 de marzo, 17 horas CET

Conferencia

«La era de la digitalización en las aulas»

por Javier Sepúlveda (miembro de GNU Education y de GNU/Linux València)

13 de marzo, 17 horas CET

Mesa redonda

«Software Libre y Educación en la Comunida Valenciana»

Richard M. Stallman y varios especialistas por confirmar

Presentación de la reedicición en español del libro

«Software para una Sociedad Libre» de Richard. S. Stallman

Domingo 14, 17 horas CET

Conferencia

Software para una Sociedad Libre» por Richard. S. Stallman

Evidentemente será grabado y posteriormente podrá ser disfrutado en diferido. Así que ya sabéis: apuntad en la agenda las fechas y difundid en vuestro entorno. La sociedad os lo agradecerá.

Más información: GNU/Linux València