Voglio annunciare che il "Primo raduno nazionale di Arch Linux Italia" si avvicina e dobbiamo esserci tutti. La data è stata fissata per il 14/15-03-2009 e si terrà a Milano. Anche se la data è un po lontana il lavoro è troppo per ciò non è stata scelta a caso.

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Carissimi arcieri,

Arch Linux Italia sta organizzando il primo raduno della sua storia che si terrà a Milano, presumibilmente in data 14/15-03-2009, in occasione del settimo anno della nascita della nostra amata distribuzione.
La data definitiva potrebbe subire delle variazioni, per venire incontro alla disponibilità della maggioranza dei partecipanti.
Anche se organizzato da Arch Linux Italia, il raduno è aperto a tutti, arcieri e non, appassionati di software libero e non, per trascorrere una giornata in allegria, pranzare insieme, fare nuove conoscenze e condividere le nostre passioni ed esperienze.
Abbiamo deciso di anticipare la notizia perché, tra le tante cose da fare, dovremmo trovare anche un LUG di buon cuore disposto ad ospitare il nostro "raduno nazionale" in cambio di qualche talk su Arch Linux, pacman ed affini.
In particolar modo, quest'annuncio è rivolto principalmente a tutti gli arcieri di Milano e dintorni, interessati all'evento, che potrebbero rivelarsi di grandissimo aiuto e, quindi, svolgere un ruolo fondamentale nella buona riuscita del raduno.
Ora, dato che i tempi sono abbastanza lunghi, voi avrete tutto il tempo di verificare le vostre eventuali disponibilità e noi la possibilità di organizzarci nel migliore dei modi.
Nel frattempo, restiamo in attesa dei vostri preziosi consigli e di quant'altro possa servire a migliorare l'organizzazione di questo particolare ed eccezionale evento.

Preso da: http://www.archlinux.it/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2658

Stay Tuned...

Hace unos días en el lug al que pertenezco recolectamos el dinero para comprar 11 Arduinos[0] y pues que mejor noticia que "LLEGARON" XD

El modelo que elegimos es el Arduino Diecimila, un modelo bastante sencillo con entrada/salida analógica y digital, y que con simplemente conectarlo al computador esta listo para su uso.

El Arduino es el perfecto juguete de bajo costo para dejar volar nuestra imaginación en esos momentos libres y de ocio que se pueden obtener de vez en cuando y a su vez nos permite reciclar viejas cosas ( y nuevas también =P ) que creíamos dañadas ( o que no usamos ) pero que de un momento a otros descubrimos que pueden ser útiles XD

Hasta ahora lo que he hecho es un sistema de contraseñas al estilo caja fuerte con la ayuda de un potenciometro, un led y el Arduino. En el próximo post publicaré y explicaré el código y la forma de hacerlo.

Por ahora, seguiré jugando digo trabajando XD

[0] http://arduino.cc/es/Metodolog%eda/Descripcion

Se ha creado un nuevo planeta, pero esta vez de accesibilidad, se trata de planet-a11está basado en phanet y estará recolectando blogs de distintos posts que traten temas de accesibilidad libre y privativa, sí, privativa. Planet-A11y nace de una conversación del equipo de accesibilidad de la fundación de GNOME, en la cual se discutía la necesidad de tener un récord de todos los blogs que hablaran de accesibilidad en un solo planeta sin la necesidad de restringirlo a posts relacionados con GNOME.

Sin mas los invito a todos a participar con sus blogs ( Por ahora en ingles ).

http://www.planet-a11y.net (Planeta)

http://www.planet-a11y.net/?page=3 (F.A.Q)

http://www.planet-a11y.net/?page=4 (Como usar Plane-A11y)

Espero les emocione como a mi.

Yes It's true!!!

An Accessibility planet has born.

After a week of hard work we definitely can announce Planet-A11y. It is a Planet ( Web feed aggregator ) that will collect all accessibility posts from all the accessibility heroes. YES Heroes, because there's people that work really hard making technology accessible for everyone.

So.. If you are one of those heroes and have a blog where you talk about it go and register it in the accessibility planet.

The urls you should visit:

http://www.planet-a11y.net (The Planet)

http://www.planet-a11y.net/?page=3 (F.A.Q)

http://www.planet-a11y.net/?page=4 ( How to use Planet-A11y )

Quería anunciar que desde ayer MouseTrap se encuentra en los repositorios svn de gnome.

Después de 2 días de haber solicitado mi cuenta svn de gnome recibí el correo de confirmación e inmediatamente hice el cambio. El nuevo svn es: http://svn.gnome.org/svn/mousetrap/trunk y se puede encontrar mas información en http://live.gnome.org/MouseTrap

También sigo manteniendo el trac original http://mousetrap.flaper87.org/trac/ el cual contiene los tickets, roadmaps, timelines y wiki de mousetrap.

Las fuentes pueden ser vistas desde el viewvc de gnome http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/mousetrap/ y desde el trac http://mousetrap.flaper87.org/trac/browser. Ambos se encuentran actualizados (en el trac hay un mirror del svn de gnome).

Bueno espero que la noticia los emocione tanto como a mi.

Suerte a todos!!

Hi all!!

Yes! It's true, I'm releasing the mouseTrap version 0.2 so it can be downloaded by anyone.

What offers mouseTrap version 0.2:

* Complete control of the mouse pointer via webcam.

* Mouse Movements

* Mouse Clicks events ( left, double, drag/drop, middle, right... Scroll Up/Down coming in the coming revisions )

* Compatibility with other Assistive technologies ( MouseTweaks, GOK)

* Multi Desktop Manager application ( Tested with: Gnome, E17 and OpenBox W.M )

* Complete Documentation for developers ( using --enable-pydoc and --enable-doxygen for building it )

* more......

The Code:

It is written in python using OpenCV library, and can be browsed from:

http://mousetrap.flaper87.org/trac/

Or downloaded using the subversion repository:


svn checkout http://svn.flaper87.org/mousetrap mousetrap

Installation:

MouseTrap uses the autotools for the installation process, so it is as easy as doing:


$ ./autogen.sh && make

AS ROOT:

# make install

Suggestions:

Read the README file :D

Coming on future versions:

* Eye tracking

* More Stability

* Different clicking methods.

* mouseTrap Art ( Icons, Images ) ( Any help needed!! )

Well, I really hope you like it and I'll be waiting for your feedback ( please write me to: flaper87 [at] flaper87 [dot] org )

Thanks all

Well Here's a short video showing the first mouseTrap mouth Click.

I hope you like it.

Acá les dejo un pequeño vídeo con el primer click ejecutado con mouseTrap.

Espero que les guste.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNRS1oSb34

mouseTrap: This is the name of my new application. It is being developed using python and its main and most important function is allow users to control their mouse using a Web Cam and their faces by tracking specific points of the face previously detected. It is also capable to perform clicks and all the mouse options (at least it will). At this moment it is completely capable to perform mouse movements using at-spi's python bindings (pyatspi).

1) History:

mouseTrap started as a simple widgetsTrap (read bellow), while the development advanced new ideas were coming and one of them was the idea of creating an application to move the mouse with the head using a simple and low cost web cam. After doing some research I found OpenCV ( base library of mouseTrap ). After downloading and testing OpenCV I found out that it is capable to do amazing things including face detection. After this I just performed some other tests and apply everything into mouseTrap and so the Web Cam feature became the main function of it.

2) Project Main Goal:

The main goal of the project is to become a completely accessible application for people with movement impairments and so take care of that important part of accessibility that wasn't covered until now. With this, It's possible to expand even more the Assistive Technology and Computer Accessibility and so make the technology accessible for more people.

3) What does mouseTrap use to model the head movement into mouse movement?

It calculates the 2D coordinates variation of the face movement on the Web Cam image and after that it executes the required movements with the pointer. It is a really simple calculation that gives an absolute and flexible control. The required movement is completely customizable by the user through the gtk based GUI.

4) Other Important Features:

• WidgetsTrap: The widgetsTrap is a time-out focus executer feature that catches all the selectable and focusable widgets of the current window ( Desktop or any other application ) and if the mouse hasn't been moved in the setted time-out the nearest selectable or focusable widget will be focused. A demonstration video can be found here
• HttpServer: It is a basic httpServer to communicate with mouseTrap using command line ( wget ) or a simple web browser.
• KeyBindings: Yes Keybindings! The keybindings let the user perform some extra mouseTrap actions like, re-detect points, enable/disable features and so on...
• Mousebindings: There are also mousebindings for the main or most important actions ( like re-detect points ) so the can be executed using the Web Cam too requiring less movement.
• Internationalisation: multi language support.

5) Future Features:

• Eyetraking: This is the most important feature to implement, hopefully in a short future. This will allow the user to move the mouse just with the eyes, just watching the point in the screen where the mouse should be moved.
• Plugins Interface: a simple interface for plugins implementations.
• More Features to add soon...

I've recorded a Demo Video where is possible to appreciate how mouseTrap works. [video here]

There is a lot more to write, but i wanted to give a resume.

I hope you like the Video and even better the project.

Best Regards to all.

P.S: SPONSORS, Ideas, Suggestions, Opinions, Helps, DESIGNERS are welcomed so don't think twice and feel free to submit a comment or mail me to: flaper87 at flaper87 dot com    :P

Video on youtube:

Latest videos:

First MouseTrap Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNRS1oSb34

MouseTrap + MouseTweaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaT0YhPpjU

MouseTrap + MouseTweaks using screen mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jPzbCIlOE

Hablemos un poco de Wordpress en su version 2.5...

Acabo de actualizar mi blog y puedo decir que uno de los cambios mas importante e imposible de no notar es el del nuevo panel de administración.

La nueva una interfaz es mucho más ligera pero simple y entendible como la otra, completamente intuitiva y de fácil acceso. Desde mi punto de vista es incluso mas organizada que la anterior.

Algunas de las nuevas caracteristicas son:

• Guardado automatico de los borradores.
• Creacion de permalinks personalizados.
• Gestion de sidebar a traves de widgets.
• Media Library: permite la gestion de archivos de imagenes, video, audio etc. los cuales pueden ser agregados desde el panel de escritura de posts y gestionados desde Manage->Media Library.
• Dashboard mejorada y personalizable.

Esperemos que esta versión no traiga problemas de seguridad como la 2.3.

Ahí les dejo :-D

Saludos!!

No voy a hablar mucho acerca del tema porque honestamente no soy un experto.

Cada vez (o al menos la mayoría de las veces) que se hace una conferencia o una jornada de software libre, una de las preguntas más realizada es: ¿Cual es la equivalencia de Autocad para GNU/Linux?, en esos casos mi respuesta siempre era negativa, o simplemente le decía a la persona que emulara el programa. Bueno eso se acabo, en una revista que compre uno de los artículos habla de esta aplicación llamada VariCAD que se creo para que cumpliera las mismas funciones que autocad y aunque no cubre todas las opciones, sus proyecciones son siempre mejores.

Este programa no posee licencia libre, es multiplataforma y hay que pagarlo, pero hasta donde se Autocad también...

Espero que les sirva.

Feliz Día.