I’ve just finished watching the short film sponsored by the Blender Foundation, and I really have to say, it just feels better and better being in the open source world.
It’s an amazing production, both in the quality of the rendering, sound, and amazing idea behind it.

The official site is currently down due to heavy digging and such, but I happen to have the torrent link stored, so here’s a direct link to it, and, the embedded YouTube version (if you read through the planet, you might have to click to the post to watch it).

It’s licensed under Creative Commons, so besides being encouraged to share it, you can download all the original material used for it and all the tools, for free.

Here at the Argentina LoCo, we have been avoiding requesting the LoCo CD pack, due to it getting stuck in customs for random reasons, making it sometimes impossible to retrieve it, and other having to pay a tax of over 100usd.

I’m curious if this is just a problem over here, or if other LoCos are in the same situation, and, if any, what workarounds have to found.

I’ve just kicked off a wiki page to follow up on the state of Integration into IDEs, so, if you want a specific IDE worked on, or are currently working on an integration, please feel free (or encouraged even) to add it to the wiki page: http://bazaar-vcs.org/IDEIntegration

I hope that page eventually harbours enough information for any random person to land on it and find out if their favourite IDE currently works with bazaar, or enough information to start working on one.

It seems Hardy is officially released, so congrats to everyone

If you’re going to download, please use torrents and be generous with your upload bandwidth

Torrent Link: http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

While looking through the Ubuntu pages, I ran into the new Desktop Tour, which seems like a really fancy and polished way of showing what Ubuntu is about.

I’m going to try one of these “dear lazyweb” thingies for the first time.

On saturday, all us latin american folks are having a contintent-wide install fest names Flisol.

This year I’m going to be giving a talk on how to help out in the community, and use very practical examples, even doing some of the work live (translate, for example).

The goal is to encourage more people to help out, and show them clear easy ways to do so.

Now, the big question: What topics do you think that should absolutely be mentioned?

Now, back to my slides… 

Well, all the cool kids are doing it, so, here goes.

Tomorrow we’ll be getting together to celebrate an amazing Ubuntu release, and probably drink much more than we should*.
I’d like to invite anyone lurking around Buenos Aires to drop by, the more the merrier.

Where? Dr Mason(in the basement!)
Address? Araoz 1199 - Capital Federal
When? 24 april (duh!)
Time? 19:30hs

There is a wiki page setup for this, so, if you’re sure your coming, please sign up 

Big thanks for Miguel and Felipe for organizing it!

Cya there!

* Optional

It’s amazing how google just keeps getting smarter and smarter…

malbisetti@pentaserv:~/red_teatral$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
292 bzr
51 cd
29 tail
25 ls
24 exit
17 screen
15 su
9 vim
6 rm
6 cat

Right, I might be using bzr a bit too much… 

Just a quick note for everyone who is wondering, bazaar hosting on Launchpad is horrifyingly slow this weekend, so, “it’s not just you”.

Seems the devs are working on it, and part of the problem has been fixed, but it’s still not there yet.

Good thing it’s a distributed version control system, huh?

And also, I want to point out the logo design was made by a good friend of mine, Lisandro Martinez Basabilvaso.

Now, if they would only fix his name in the winner announcements…