Call for courses proposals
CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS FOR ECI 2010 Deadline: March 12, 2010 Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas - ECI 2010 July 26-31, 2010 Departamento de Computación Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA The organizing committee of ECI 2010 invites proposals for one-week courses at ECI 2010. (Suggestions of lecturers that could be invited are also welcome.) Proposals must be emailed to eci2...@dc.uba.ar, and must include the title and an outline of the course, and the lecturer's CV. Courses can be given either at advanced undergraduate or graduate level on any subject on Informatics, preferently not covered by the regular curricula. Course lectures can be given in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Each course has 15-18 hours in total -- 3 hours per day from Monday to Friday, with a final evaluation that can be either a take-home or an exam taken on Saturday. ECI provides funds to cover travel and/or stay of invited lecturers. Proposals must be emailed to eci2...@dc.uba.ar by March 12, 2010, and must include: 1) Course title. 2) Course abstract (max 1000 chars). 3) Brief outline of the course syllabus. 4) Lecturer's CV. For more information about previous editions of ECI, please visit our website at http://www.dc.uba.ar/eci. ABOUT ECI: ECI (School of Informatics) has been organized yearly since 1987 by the Computer Science Department at the School of Sciences (FCEN) of the University de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. Its main objective is to offer participants high-quality intensive courses on subjects usually not covered by the regular curricula. Attendants to the ECI are graduate and undergraduate students from UBA and other universities, and practitioners from the industry/government, from both Argentina and neighboring countries. Courses are taught by visiting professors from Universities and institutions from around the world. This gives participants the opportunity to learn new research topics and establish links of academic cooperation. The ECI has repeatedly proven to be an excellent means for promoting research and development. In previous editions, ECI was attended by 350 to 800 participants, each taking from one to three courses. Throughout these years, ECI has been possible thanks to the effort of many renowned professors and researchers, the cooperation of the authorities and staff of FCEN-UBA, and the financial support of several private companies and organizations. Previous editions of ECI have been supplemented with software, hardware and book exhibits from different companies. Other activities at ECI include talks, tutorials and seminars, making it an excellent venue for academic and professional exchange. For further information please contact us at: Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas - ECI 2010 Departamento de Computación, FCEN, UBA Pabellón I - Ciudad Universitaria 1428, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Tel./Fax: (+54) 11 4576-3359 Tel.: (+54) 11 4576-3391 al 96, int 701/702 e-mail: eci2...@dc.uba.ar http://www.dc.uba.ar/eci -- http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: why BSDs got no love
it will be nice make sysinstall use the port tree, since a lot of applications in the dvd use to fail the install because dependencies that can be resolved in the ports (as portinstall/portmaster does whena package dependency is not fulfilled). On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:59, Petrus wrote: > There is absolutely no reason to change the default FreeBSD installer in my >> opinion, when the PC-BSD one will suffice for the 'snazzy' desktop >> installs. >> > > I won't say that sysinstall couldn't benefit from at least *some* > renovation. ;) > > The interface is fine, sure, but what I'm primarily talking about is the > download mechanism. Apparently when certain files get downloaded with it, > they actually get copied in-place during the transfer process, which means > that if you abort it, you can end up with partially digested conf files (my > /etc/passwd got hosed once) all over the place. > > What I'd propose would be caching whatever files the system needs to > download until everything is cached locally, and then installing the lot > after that, rather than doing both downloading and installing/copying in the > same step. That way you can safely abort during the process if you need to. > A scenario where individual files that are to be rewritten, get temporarily > backed up until the setup is complete would probably also really help. > > So as said, the interface is fine, but I think the internal mechanism could > definitely benefit from being made a bit more robust. > ___ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org > " > -- http://dfbsd.trackbsd.org.ar ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: BSDday-AR
Follow up. University of Buenos Aires will host one of the 2 days and the other one will be host by colectivo la tribu, argentina.com will provide host to all the inet services needed, so i hope the new site will be up and running in few days with the wiki, and mailing lists. I will come up with urls ASAP, waiting for deploy and DNS updates. :-) Damian Vicino On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 15:40, Sdävtaker wrote: > We got a couple of organizations all working together (coordination of > the different parties takes time, specially when one is a legal assoc > and one is a university) there is too some non-official organizations > like openbsderos.org who are taking all the work of site and wiki. > The site is waiting for place confirmation, the place is waiting for > some burocratic stuff in university, so we hope to put all together > asap, but there is a lot of interaction and different parties with > different times :-/ > It is our first time trying to work a event of this magnitude. > Damian > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: BSDday-AR
We got a couple of organizations all working together (coordination of the different parties takes time, specially when one is a legal assoc and one is a university) there is too some non-official organizations like openbsderos.org who are taking all the work of site and wiki. The site is waiting for place confirmation, the place is waiting for some burocratic stuff in university, so we hope to put all together asap, but there is a lot of interaction and different parties with different times :-/ It is our first time trying to work a event of this magnitude. Damian ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: BSDday-AR
I checked your site, i like it, easy to read, easy to navigate. I forwaded it to the other guys in organization here so they can see it. :-) Damian On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:30, TooMany Secrets wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Sdävtaker wrote: >> Until now, only Brazil had BSDDay before, Argentina is second country >> doing it and someone got the .com domain to try centralize the event >> and set more places for the coming years. > > It isn't exactly a "BSDDay", but the last year (2008) I hold the first > BSDConf'08 in Barcelona, Spain. > As I am just riding the event, I do not think I can do this year. But > I'm starting to move and try to celebrate it again next year. > > Here you are the site of the event: http://bcn.bsdcon.net/ > > -- > Have a nice day ;-)ASCII Ribbon /"''\ > TooManySecretsCampaign\ / >Against HTML / \ >Mail + News / \ > > > > Dijo Confucio: > "Exígete mucho a ti mismo y espera poco de los demás. Así te ahorrarás > disgustos." > > ___ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: BSDday-AR
Until now, only Brazil had BSDDay before, Argentina is second country doing it and someone got the .com domain to try centralize the event and set more places for the coming years. Basicly the event is composed by 2 days, one all talks and one all workshops, everything about BSD related topics. They just got a certification autorization from BSDCertification.org, the official calls will be done a few weeks from now since website and translations are not yet ready. The organization is currently taken by 2 BUGs here openbsderos and the bug from university of Buenos Aires. I ll keep posted as soon as the information is realeased. Damian On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 18:10, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:13:59AM -0200, Sdävtaker wrote: >> Hey everyone, just a headup. >> Buenos Aires May 29th+30th, BSDday-Argentina. >> We still working in english versions of the site and calls, anyway you >> can already check a spanish version in http://www.bsdday.com.ar >> As soon as I get a english version, i will send it (My english sucks >> enough to avoid trying to full translate some official stuff). >> If someone want to help in organization we still need some hands. > > Having never heard of BSDday before, and living in the US, I decided to > try loading http://bsdday.com in my browser. It's surprisingly useless, > and contains only: > > > > What is this meant to be? Is http://bsdday.com.ar just a regional > version of what's supposed to be at http://bsdday.com (but apparently > isn't)? My Spanish is rusty enough that I basically can't get anything > from the .ar site, unfortunately, other than what the images convey. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Quoth Scott McNealy: "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous > system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their > technology too." > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
BSDday-AR
Hey everyone, just a headup. Buenos Aires May 29th+30th, BSDday-Argentina. We still working in english versions of the site and calls, anyway you can already check a spanish version in http://www.bsdday.com.ar As soon as I get a english version, i will send it (My english sucks enough to avoid trying to full translate some official stuff). If someone want to help in organization we still need some hands. See ya Damian ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
BSD talks in JRSL, looking for topics
Hello, Im from bug.dc.uba.ar. next month we will have JRSL (free software regional event) here in Argentina, we can get a space to talk about BSD, the event will have 2 publics, newbies and experienced users. I wondering what to talk about. I guess we can talk about PF for experienced users, but what would be a nice topic for newbie public? Licenses comparizon? Thanks for any suggestions. Sdav -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Call for speakers in Buenos Aires
Hey, I'm from the BUG in University of Buenos Aires and we trying to find someone who wants to give a talk about PF. It will be in the context of the ECI08. The date will be between the july 24 and july 31 . It will be a short talk, about 30-45 minutes. If you know someone around here who can help, we really appreaciate to get in contact. Thanks Damian Vicino ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?
I think local mailling list are BUG's domain, if you pull the already few people (in some countries) from BUGs to a national--BSD list, it will fragment more the tiny local communities. Sdav On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-03 10:55, Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:45:01AM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: > > > > I think that the question dropped by Edw was more of why this > > > > service wasn't offered from the FreeBSD mailman infrastructure. I > > > > think that every country and state has its own > > > > mailman/majordomo/ezmlm/whatever features, but none are ran > > > > centrally. > > > > > > The extra work for the central mailman-owner: > > > I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] is happy/wise to avoid the > > > nightmare of local languages & character sets & leave it to locals > > > within each delegated your-country.freebsd.org DNS name space. > > > > > As a mailman-owner hosting about 60 lists, I can tell you that it is > > possible in mailman to set the owner of a list to a person who wants > > to have the list and let them handle the bounces and unknown messages. > > Yes, it definitely *is* possible. I am the moderator/listman for > `freebsd-doc-el', which is currently hosted in the Mailman installation > of lists.linux.gr: > > http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc-el > > Right now the list is not open for posting by non-subscribers, so we use > this as a crude `antispam' filter. If the load starts becoming too much > for me to handle, I will have to find another way to filter messages :) > > > > ___ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
New BUG?
Hello people. I got a chance to start a BUG here, in Argentina, supported by UBA (the biggest local university), actually supported by it's computer sciences deparment. They started a LUG some time ago and the university give them some support, created a Linux Lab... I was talking to the LUG people and they said the paperwork was too easy, the university is really open for these groups and they helping me with the papers and stuff for the BUG. We want to get people interested in *BSD projects at university, and outside it, the university got researchers in OSs, and, i hope, having a BUG will affect them, actually they using a real big cluster with debian (when i said "DragonFLy can kick Debian ass in the big cluster", they said they didnt even know about DF...). The university got some international conferences and congresses once, maybe 2 times every year and having a bug we should be able to get some space for BSD projects there too, mainly FBSD. What you think, should i start the papers and talking to directives in the university? Thank you for any advice you can give me. See ya. Sdävtaker ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Current Gentoo user
Chad Perrin escribió: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:52:18AM +, Paul Waring wrote: Gentoo isn't really an operating system, it's a Linux distribution - the only way in which it differs from other distributions (say Debian) is in its package management. I've been running into the notion that Linux distributions aren't operating systems lately -- two or three times now. I find this immensely confusing. The way things are going, it seems that ultimately the term "operating system" will never be allowed to apply to anything that has anything at all to do with the Linux kernel, period. 1. The kernel isn't an OS (I happen to agree with this one). It's just a kernel, and it takes more than a kernel to make an OS. 2. The distro isn't an OS (I happen to disagree with this one). It's just a distribution, which, um, differs from an OS in that it, um, isn't an OS. 3. What the heck *is* an OS? If you want a fast read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Definition_of_an_Operating_System_.28OS.29 But there is a lot more info in Tanenbaum books, Staling books, or Silverschatz books, the three of them named "operating systems". Rule of the thumb... If you find an easy application who runs in one "Distribution" and it doesnt run in another one, then you can be pretty sure those are not the same OS. =) ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ISN] Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu, Is Best for Enterprise Use]
I want to ad some details... Julian H. Stacey wrote: "David Naylor" wrote: I really, really must be missing something. Could someone please explain this to me: Why use open source if you do not even compile from source. All Linux Some reasons some might choose to use Open Source based: Zero Purchase Price. That is the price of freeware, not opensource. Open source means you get the original code, there is a lot of people who sells software opensource (as example some software developed by IBM are really expensive but opensource) Zero wait time to purchase, Download now. You can download binaries too... Less Viruses or no viruses (Linux or BSD depending), No viruses, you really put a lot of faith here! Not first target of viruses Agree :-) Dont trust MicroShi*, (biggest ever fine imposed by EU on any company for monopoly infringement: MS Inc). Want to look trendy by using Linux rather than MS (yes people like that do exist, even if not us). Different Licensing, If a colleague wants a copy, give him one legally immediately, no need to wait & buy one. You can do that with Sharewares too. Different Support Model, Per mail list is unpaid unguaranteed, but global 24 hours a day people are awake & respond. Source available If bug fixes or enhancements later needed, can easily Pay a consultant to do it, Global Index: http://berklix.com/consultants/ Can choose Any competing consultant, not dependent on just one software vendor who has access to closed source, but may not consider it his priority. :-) Security, Peace of mind: Code can be read by many, loopholes exposed & fixed, not hidden & left open. Yeap!!! 16,000 odd packages, mostly free from ports/ many not on MS. Yes, but you miss some great products sometimes... The one i can remember now is VMware, they not porting it to BSD only works in windows and linux, and the linux version got limited functionallity. Even if not all have time/ skill/ interest/ to personally compile all used, encourage people to use open source based, for the warm fuzzy feeling they're doing the right thing. even if they're not personally learnt yet quite Why it's good to be open source based :-) Personally, I think binaries are just time-saving, last time i compiled KDE was a couple of days... and I didnt use any extraweird option, now i download binaries for that. See ya around. Damian ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ISN] Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu, Is Best for Enterprise Use]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Gregory W. MacPherson wrote: > Perhaps if the *BSD community would mirror some of these behaviors then > *BSD (which technically is superior to an LINUX) would receive this type > of press. Perhaps...but not likely. Let's discuss this here... My comments below. I remove the original content since I don't have permission to redistribute it. I will add some comments... > 1. Users Love It FreeBSD doesn't offer a "fresh but familiar GUI environment" like Ubuntu in its default install. Different ouside projects compete to do this with different goals. I tried it, i didnt love it... Actually, it only ran in 1 PC at my office, all others said "segmentation fault, kernel panic" because Via micros are not supported (We got those in the desktops to save money...). > 2. The Platform Has Excellent Support No single company backs FreeBSD and there is no official source of commercial FreeBSD support contracts. (By the way, I have been providing professional FreeBSD contracts and support for over seven years.) There is no companies to Back FreeBSD, but there is a lot of people backing *BSD projects and giving *BSD paid support. Plus, you got some big communities of mailling lists and stuff to ask. > 3. Cost Savings Of course FreeBSD is free. As for SLA, see #2 above. As I see it, FreeBSD is even more free than Ubuntu since the BSD license, I code all my projects under that kind of license, no restrictions on the coding merge, GNU is too imperialist, "one day everything will be GNU, becouse we got a damn recursive license" > 4. A Superlative Security Record What studies? How can FreeBSD be evaluated by same studies? (Or has it?) FreeBSD can say same (s/Linux/BSD Unix/). I wasnt going to reply this mail until i had read this one, oh man, i couldnt contain my laugh Linux based distribution rated number one on security? did u try do the test with OpenBSD, DragonFly or even Darwin? come on... Who was in that test? windows, linux and BeOS(not mantained since 5 years ago)? > 5. Frictionless Deployment Depends on your needs. FreeBSD installs very fast and easy for many needs. For other needs, it is very slow and tedious (depending on knowledge/experience). See #1. Also this makes no sense to me. Different environments for testing, development and production to me usually has nothing to do with license fees. Only thing becouse it is cheapa is becouse they dont code it, it is a big bag with a lot of softwares from other projects, a big config setup and a bootable CD, you can run PCBSD and you will have something like that too. > 6. A Huge Selection of Applications and Tools FreeBSD also has huge collection of packages. In Ubuntu (Debian) many software suites are divided up into multiple packages (clients, servers, development headers, shared libraries, documentation, etc.). FreeBSD's default install is very light so is a good starting point for many. What operating system doesnt have it? Minix? > 7. Thin Client Joy FreeBSD can be a thin client and can be a thin client server. Cool you got an X-server... who doesnt? > 8. Unleash Your IT Talent FreeBSD is open source and free and has community participation and collaboration. The source code and documentation changes can easily be evaluated. > 9. Access A Whole New Skills Pool ? Oh I see... They talking about linux coming to free the world... Just propaganda. > 10. Predictable Releases Many like a consistent schedule for new releases. FreeBSD also has policies on how long to maintain previous releases. Note that FreeBSD base and ports have different update policies. Depending on how FreeBSD updates are done, it can be easy. 100% agree. Jeremy C. Reed Damian ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Someone in Argentina want to be a BSD grim reaper?
Hey guys. The BUGs here are too tiny yet. Im looking for some people to start passing the word around these lands... Argentina became Lug infested, there is a GNU profet in every corner, and i dont want to feel so alone against the empire :-( The GNU profets here are like "you dont use linux, you are the Devil!" and it got some irony becouse of the BSD mascot. :-P Anyway, i want to stop getting ubuntu and fedora cds in every "unix" conference/coffe chat/course. What I suppose to do with those? They using CD-r so i cant erase it and burn something else. Sdav ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
