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		<title>Il Software Libero ed Open Source: istruzioni pratiche per giornalisti poco pratici</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[EDIT: Subito dopo la pubblicazione di questo blogpost, l'articolo in questione è stato corretto, rimuovendo la "frase incriminata".] Grazie a Twitter ho scoperto un articolo della giornalista Marta Serafini apparso ieri su corriere.it. Nonostante l&#8217;articolo fosse incentrato su Google e la sua nuova tecnologia Knowledge Graph, l&#8217;autrice dell&#8217;articolo pensa bene di aggiungere un commento personale [...]]]></description>
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<p>Grazie a Twitter ho scoperto un <a title="Google, cambia la ricerca con Knowledge Graph E il motore ragiona come il cervello umano" href="http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/12_dicembre_04/google-knowlede-come-cambia-la-ricerca_78b1dd66-3d93-11e2-b22e-27312368513d.shtml" target="_blank">articolo</a> della giornalista <a title="Twitter - Marta Serafini" href="https://twitter.com/martaserafini" target="_blank">Marta Serafini</a> apparso ieri su <a title="Corriere della Sera" href="http://www.corriere.it" target="_blank">corriere.it</a>. Nonostante l&#8217;articolo fosse incentrato su Google e la sua nuova tecnologia Knowledge Graph, l&#8217;autrice dell&#8217;articolo pensa bene di aggiungere un commento personale alla notizia che il sistema sfrutti un &#8220;<em>database open source come Wikipedia</em>&#8221; (affermazione che già di suo lascia abbastanza sconcertati chi sa cosa siano l&#8217;Open Source e i database). La frase incriminata è la seguente:</p>
<h4><em>Open source, infatti significa gratis. E non sempre questo è sinonimo di qualità.</em></h4>
<p>Non era facile fare tre grossolani errori in due periodi così brevi, ma Serafini c&#8217;è riuscita benissimo (e non era il suo primo incidente, visto il modo con cui <a title="Hacker rubano 36 milioni di euro sui conti  di 30 banche europee via sms" href="http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/12_dicembre_06/hacker-maxi-furto-da-conti-online-banche-europee_0e8cd008-3f82-11e2-823e-1add3ba819e8.shtml" target="_blank">più</a> <a title="Facebook organizza i corsi anti-hacker E Anonymous svela le falle di Windows8 " href="http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/12_novembre_29/a-facebook-fanno-i-corsi-antihacker-e-anonymous-svela-le-falle-di-windows-otto_d772351e-3a3a-11e2-8e20-34fd72ebaa93.shtml" target="_blank">e</a> <a title="E il Pentagono crea una cyber city  per difendersi dagli attacchi hacker" href="http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/12_novembre_27/cyber-city-gli-americani-costruiscono-citta-anti-hacker_7b12e106-388c-11e2-a2c7-8d9940659020.shtml" target="_blank">più</a> <a title="Un hacker americano entrò nei computer dell'Eliseo prima dell'elezione di Hollande" href="http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/12_novembre_21/hacker-americano-entra-nei-computer-dell-eliseo_1c1f2a2e-3422-11e2-a480-b74fe153b15c.shtml" target="_blank">volte</a> ha confuso il termine &#8220;<a title="Wikipedia - Hacker" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker" target="_blank">Hacker</a>&#8221; con quello di &#8220;<a title="Wikipedia - Cracker" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker" target="_blank">Cracker</a>&#8221; nell&#8217;ultimo mese, ma questo è un&#8217;altro discorso).</p>
<p>C&#8217;è da dire che Marta Serafini non è la prima nè l&#8217;unica giornalista che scrive delle affermazioni imprecise o totalmente sbagliate quando si parla di Software Libero e/o di Open Source, la lista sarebbe assai lunga. A giovamento di queste persone, voglio riportare qui di seguito alcuni concetti essenziali che è utile avere sotto mano quando si parla di queste cose. Ci sarebbe molto altro da aggiungere, e bisognerebbe argomentare maglio, ma già tenere a mente i punti che seguono è un deciso passo avanti.</p>
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<li><a title="Wikipedia - Software Liber" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Libero" target="_blank">Software Libero</a> e <a title="Open Source" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" target="_blank">Software Open Source</a> sono due cose un po&#8217; diverse, ma per semplicità diciamo che sono sinonimi, e per praticità chiamiamoli &#8220;Open Source&#8221; di qui in poi.</li>
<li>I programmi Open Source NON sono gratis. Spesso lo sono, ma la gratuità non è una caratteristica fondamentale.</li>
<li>Ci sono aziende che guadagnano barcate di soldi col software Open Source. Red Hat, un&#8217;azienda americana, ha fatturato <a title="Red Hat: The first $1-billion-a-year open source outfit (almost)" href="http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/redhat_q4_f2011_numbers/" target="_blank">1 miliardo di dollari</a> l&#8217;anno scorso grazie all&#8217;Open Source (ed è solo una tra le tante).</li>
<li>Il senso profondo dell&#8217;Open Source è che il codice del programma (quello che viene scritto dal programmatore) debba essere liberamente accessibile, per una serie di ragioni tremendamente importanti e che sono troppo lunghe da riportare qui (ne riparliamo al corso avanzato).</li>
<li>Il Software Open Source NON è gratis. E&#8217; libero. Sono due cose diverse.</li>
<li>La libera accessibilità del codice scatena una serie di meccanismi che rendono il Software Open Source qualitativamente migliore rispetto al software proprietario.</li>
<li>Il Software Open Source è spesso di qualità così eccellente che Google ha scelto il Software Open Source chiamato &#8220;Linux&#8221; come base per il sistema operativo Android, e quello chiamato &#8220;Python&#8221; per molti dei suoi siti web.</li>
<li>Il Software Open Source (Linux, in particolare) fa girare il <a title="top500.org" href="http://top500.org/statistics/list/" target="_blank">93,8%</a> dei supercomputer più potenti del mondo. Tanto per parlare di progetti che alla qualità ci tengono, un pochino.</li>
<li>Il Software Open Source funziona talmente tanto bene che perfino Microsoft (che lavora solo nell&#8217;ambito del software proprietario) usa Linux per i <a title="Netcraft - Site report for www.bing.com" href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com" target="_blank">server del proprio motore di ricerca</a>.</li>
<li>Ad essere Open Source è il software, non i database, o la musica, o i libri, o altri tipi di dati. Quelli lì si chiamano <a title="Wikipedia - Open Content" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content" target="_blank">Open Content</a> o <a title="Wikipedia - Open data" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data" target="_blank">Open Data</a>, a seconda dei casi. Si somigliano, si vogliono bene, ma non sono la stessa cosa.</li>
<li>Il Software Libero ed il Software Open Source NON sono gratis. Giusto nel caso non si fosse capito.</li>
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<p>Quindi, cara Marta Serafini, capisci perchè se dici che: 1) i contenuti di Wikipedia sono Open Source; 2) L&#8217;Open Source è gratis; 3) L&#8217;Open Source è di scarsa qualità; stai dicendo tre colossali stupidaggini? Quando un giornalista che scrive per un giornale importante firma un articolo impreciso e sbagliato, sta sfuggendo alla funzione fondamentale del giornalista, che è quello di informare e permettere alla gente di avere una mentalità critica su quello che succede. Quell&#8217;articolo, e i tanti altri che molti tuoi colleghi hanno scritto in passato anche su altre testate, è ingiustamente diffamatorio e non aiuta a fare chiarezza. Eppure le cose che ho riportate più su sono scritte su migliaia di altri siti web, sarebbe bastata una veloce ricerca su Google per scrivere in maniera più consapevole.</p>
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		<title>Salvatore&#8217;s Open Source Cure for brain cancer</title>
		<link>http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/2012/09/11/salvatores-open-source-cure-for-brain-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salvatore Iaconesi is an italian guy who lives in Roma and had a couple of illnesses in a few days. Doctors found the cause in a cancer that is growing within his brain. When Salvatore got his medical records from the hospital, he noticed that the data (CT scan imagery among them) was delivered in a [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="My Open Source Cure" href="http://artisopensource.net/cure/" target="_blank">Salvatore Iaconesi</a> is an italian guy who lives in Roma and had a couple of illnesses in a few days. Doctors found the cause in a cancer that is growing within his brain. When Salvatore got his medical records from the hospital, he noticed that the data (CT scan imagery among them) was delivered in a closed, proprietary format, preventing him to do whatever he wants with his<strong> own</strong> data.</p>
<p>After noticing all this, Salvatore decided to crack the data and publish everything on a <a title="My Open Source Cure" href="http://artisopensource.net/cure/" target="_blank">website</a>. You can find his whole records there, without any censorship or limitation. Salvatore thinks that this will help sharing the data with the (probably many) doctors he will need to consult to fight the cancer. And he thinks too that somebody can help him finding an &#8220;<strong>Open Source Cure</strong>&#8221; for his cancer:</p>
<address>&#8220;Grab the information about my disease, if you want, and give me a CURE: create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem. Artists, designers, hackers, scientists, doctors, photographers, videomakers, musicians, writers. Anyone can give me a CURE. Create your CURE using the content which you find in the DATA section here on <a title="My Open Source Cure" href="http://artisopensource.net/cure/" target="_blank">this site</a>, and send it to <strong><a href="mailto:info@artisopensource.net">info@artisopensource.net</a>&#8220;</strong></address>
<p>There are several points of interest in the whole story. First of all, I find both incredible and repugnant that personal data like CT scans are delivered in a proprietary format. AFAIK, Italy has laws stating that Public Administration must use open, standardized formats. It would be worth investigating how many agencies regularly use closed formats (my guess: a lot of them).</p>
<p>Further, I believe this is the first time such an effort is deployed in this way. I am so pleased when FLOSS (in the most extensive reading of the word &#8220;Software&#8221;) can help people and spread awareness about important topics. Not to say about what incredible virtuous cycles can be started: it&#8217;s just 1 day this website has been launched, and lot of sources are already speaking about it.</p>
<p>Also, I like the extensive definition of the word &#8220;Cure&#8221; that Salvatore is promoting. Cancer is a disease with a severe impact on the psychological side of a person, and curing of it is not just chemotherapy and ionizing radiations: it&#8217;s also improving the quality of life day by day. I hope that Salvatore will get many cures on his website, and I hope those cures might help other person as well. Again, it&#8217;s amazing how the FLOSS &#8220;philosophy&#8221; can apply to so many different fields of the life.</p>
<p>Finally, I really look up to Salvatore for his great idea. This is a tremendous show of mettle and clear head. I wish him all the best for the future, and hope that website will soon become just the memory of a bad period.</p>
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		<title>Talks at ConfSL</title>
		<link>http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/2012/06/25/talks-at-confsl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went to Ancona to attend the sixth edition of ConfSL, one of the most important Italian conferences about Free Software. It has been a great opportunity to meet old friends, get acquainted with new ones, and share some thoughts about FLOSS.  I also delivered two talks during the meeting, getting quite a [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last weekend I went to Ancona to attend the sixth edition of <a title="ConfSL" href="http://www.confsl.org/">ConfSL</a>, one of the most important Italian conferences about Free Software. It has been a great opportunity to meet old friends, get acquainted with new ones, and share some thoughts about FLOSS.  I also delivered two talks during the meeting, getting quite a good response from the audience.</p>
<div id="attachment_245" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 710px"><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC05346.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-245" title="ConfSL, Main Room" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC05346.jpg" alt="ConfSL, Main Room" width="700" height="315" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The main room of the Engineering Department in Ancona, who hosted the ConfSL, in a great picture by Marco Alici.</p></div>
<p>The first talk I presented was about a project started by the <a title="FermoLUG" href="http://www.linuxfm.org/">LUG</a> I am member of, in the city of Fermo in Italy. It was about creating a computer room in a school in the city, salvaging some quite old hardware and powering it with 100% Free Software. The idea was started by the brave Cristian Minnucci, a good friend of mine and a teacher in the school itself, who submitted to the LUG the proposal to give technical assistance to the school in setting up the room. It needed several weeks of work, but we reached our goal and are pretty satisfied of the results. I presented the project, gathering a great interest from the audience. <a title="Slide Talk Betti" href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~warp10/talks/20120622_ConfSL_Betti.pdf">Slides</a> are available online (italian only).</p>
<div id="attachment_247" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC053461.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-247" title="Talk delivery" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC053461.jpg" alt="Talk delivery" width="600" height="390" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(Photo courtesy of Marco Alici)</p></div>
<p>The second talk was about Ubuntu/Debian Development. I delivered the talk together with Iustin Pop, a nice Googler and Debian Developer who reached the party from Zurich. I really liked the idea to have an Ubuntu Developer and a Debian Developer together teaching how to get started with development, so I accepted with great pleasure the invitation from the organizers of ConfSL. I started the session with a general introduction to what Ubuntu is, how it is done, what a new contributor can do in the project, how to get involved. Then, Iustin packaged from scratch the popular <a title="GNU Hello" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/">GNU Hello</a> application to give a taste of how a Debian package is done pragmatically. I was quite happy to see that several students followed this session, all of them showing great interest in the topic: I hope I&#8217;ll see them around soon. <a title="Slides Ubuntu Development" href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~warp10/talks/20120622_ConfSL_UbuntuDevelopment.pdf">Slides</a> of my talk are available too (in english, this time).</p>
<div id="attachment_248" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC053462.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-248" title="Debian packaging" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MA_DSC05342-DSC053462.jpg" alt="Debian packaging" width="600" height="400" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Iustin Pop showing how to build a Debian package (Courtesy of&#8230; try guess? Marco Alici!)</p></div>
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		<title>Ubuntu-it Meeting Report</title>
		<link>http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/2012/06/11/ubuntu-it-meeting-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, June 2nd we held the bi-annual meeting of the community of Ubuntu Italy in the gorgeous city of Bologna. These meetings are a great opportunity to gather all the ubuntueros scattered around Italy and share some great time all together. We spent all day speaking about our community, plans for the future, ways to [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saturday, June 2nd we held the bi-annual meeting of the community of Ubuntu Italy in the gorgeous city of Bologna. These meetings are a great opportunity to gather all the ubuntueros scattered around Italy and share some great time all together. We spent all day speaking about our community, plans for the future, ways to attract more contributors and let ubuntu-it grow even more. But there are many things behind the scene that usually don&#8217;t appear in the official chronicle&#8230;</p>
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<dt><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groupmeeting1.jpg"><img title="Ubuntu-it Meeting group photo #1" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groupmeeting1.jpg" alt="Ubuntu-it Meeting group photo #1" width="700" height="382" /></a></dt>
<dd>Ubuntu-it in all its glory. (Courtesy of Dario Cavedon)</dd>
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<h3>The venue and the earthquake.</h3>
<p>Bologna is very close to the area that has been hit, a few days before the meeting, by two big earthquakes, killing 26 people. Fortunately, Bologna just got very limited damage, and we enjoyed the beauties of the city center under a shiny (and quite hot) sun.</p>
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<dt><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Bologna.jpg"><img title="Bologna City Hall" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Bologna.jpg" alt="Bologna City Hall" width="700" height="525" /></a></dt>
<dd>The City Hall of Bologna, in Piazza Maggiore. (Courtesy of Jeremie Tamburini)</dd>
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<h3>The Meeting on air!</h3>
<p>For the first time ever, a real-time audio/video streaming on the Internet has been available, giving the farthest users the possibility to follow the meeting comfortably sat at their own home. All of this was made possible by the extraordinary work of Marco Buono, who proved (again) to be a valuable asset of Ubuntu-it. Marco brought three webcams and found a way to deliver the stream by the only mean of Free Software. I really appreciated the effort. Of course, in the best tradition of the greatest meetings around the world, we faced some technical difficulties at first, but they managed to fix everything and we even can provide the <a title="Ubuntu-it Meeting video, 1/3" href="http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=193255916" target="_blank">full</a> <a title="Ubuntu-it Meeting videeo, 2/3" href="http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=193256232" target="_blank">set</a> of <a title="Ubuntu-it Meeting video, 3/3 " href="http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=193256232" target="_blank">videos</a> of the meeting (italian only).</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 650px"><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/marcobuono1.jpg"><img title="Marco Buono vs The Streaming" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/marcobuono1.jpg" alt="Marco Buono vs The Streaming" width="640" height="437" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Marco Buono (in the center) charging up the buddies during a coffee break (Courtesy of Dario Cavedon.)</p></div>
<h3> The Ubuntu-it official t-shirts.</h3>
<p>The second great news of this meeting was the t-shirt we were all equipped with. And again, this was an idea of the hero Marco Buono, who cared of buying and printing the t-shirts for all of them. And the greatest thing is they are customized too! We paraded it in the evening across the city center, back from the dinner. Don&#8217;t know if the people thought of us as the players of a weird soccer team, or just a gang of crazy. I&#8217;d bet on the second option, though.</p>
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<dt><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groupmeeting2.jpg"><img title="Ubuntu-it Meeting Photo Group #2" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groupmeeting2.jpg" alt="Ubuntu-it Meeting Photo Group #2" width="700" height="405" /></a></dt>
<dd>The Ubuntu-it gang in a photo group again, showing its b-side. The best one, actually. (Courtesy of Dario Cavedon)</dd>
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<h3> Talks, talks, and more talks.</h3>
<p>Lots of sessions were hosted during this meeting. From Davide Miceli presenting its graduation thesis about online communities to Paolo Sammicheli reporting its impression from the latest UDS, from Jeremie Tamburini who announced plans regarding the Italian Documentation Team to Dario Cavedon who held a great talk about communication (and who personally defied me to blog more<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-205-1' id='fnref-205-1'>1</a></sup>), we had some very intense time all day long.</p>
<div id="attachment_212" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 602px"><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/micmord.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-212 " title="Ubuntu pride" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/micmord.jpg" alt="Ubuntu pride" width="592" height="748" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Michele Mordenti waving a DIY Ubuntu flag while Fabio Colinelli (in the foreground) thinks about new features for MyUnity 4. In the rear, Dario Cavedon is tweeting (how strange!). (Courtesy of Marco Buono)</p></div>
<h3>Crazy friends&#8230;</h3>
<p>The guys from this community are simply amazing. And crazy too, especially when they are enjoying great times around a table with other fellow ubunteros.</p>
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<dt><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dariocavedon1.jpg"><img title="Dario Cavedon" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dariocavedon1.jpg" alt="Dario Cavedon" width="747" height="646" /></a></dt>
<dd>Dario Cavedon in one of his best disguise. He is tweeting even now. (Courtesy of Jeremie Tamburini)</dd>
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<h3>&#8230;and great food.</h3>
<p>One says &#8220;Italy&#8221;, and everybody think about great food. Ubuntu-it loves this stereotype, and has a longstanding tradition in the matter. I have never seen an Ubuntu-it event where great feeds were not a central part of it. This meeting was no exception to the rule.</p>
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<dd>And that was just the end of the lunch! (Courtesy of Jeremie Tamburini)</dd>
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<li id='fn-205-1'>Challenge accepted: this blogpost is just the first direct consequence. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-205-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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		<title>Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A friend of mine said: &#8220;I owe him everything I am in my job&#8221;. Today is Oneiric Release Day. I guess we really should dedicate Ubuntu 11.10 to Dennis Ritchie. Most of what we are now couldn&#8217;t be possible without his own work.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ritchie.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-179" title="Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ritchie.png" alt="" width="650" height="364" /></a></p>
<p>A friend of mine said: &#8220;I owe him everything I am in my job&#8221;.</p>
<p>Today is Oneiric Release Day. I guess we really should dedicate Ubuntu 11.10 to Dennis Ritchie. Most of what we are now couldn&#8217;t be possible without his own work.</p>
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		<title>NVIDIA Optimus on Dell XPS 15z: performance and battery consumption comparison</title>
		<link>http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/2011/08/25/nvidia-optimus-on-dell-xps-15z-performance-and-battery-consumption-comparison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a Dell XPS 15z notebook, with a Sandy Bridge i5, 1366&#215;768 display1  and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M video card. This graphic card support Optimus technology, a mechanism to switch from integrated Intel graphic to discrete GPU to deploy full horse-power when needed, and save precious battery life when 3D is not required. [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently bought a Dell XPS 15z notebook, with a Sandy Bridge i5, 1366&#215;768 display<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-155-1' id='fnref-155-1'>1</a></sup>  and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M video card. This graphic card support <a title="NVIDIA Optimus Technology" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/optimus_technology.html" target="_blank">Optimus technology</a>, a mechanism to switch from integrated Intel graphic to discrete GPU to deploy full horse-power when needed, and save precious battery life when 3D is not required. Unfortunately, Optimus is not (yet?) supported by Linux. Anyway, a project called <a title="Bumblebee" href="https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee" target="_blank">bumblebee</a> promises to achieve similar results. Although switching is not (yet?) automatic, looks like bumblebee keep the word: I deeply tested my notebook with each available driver, and bumblebee + nvidia proprietary<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-155-2' id='fnref-155-2'>2</a></sup> driver is the best solution so far, definitely.</p>
<h4>Test methodology</h4>
<p>Tests have been run on a fresh oneiric install, updated to august 23rd. I wasn&#8217;t able to use jockey to install drivers due to crashes of the software a few seconds after launch, so I managed drivers installation manually.</p>
<p>Test was aimed to evaluate battery consumption and performance. I used &#8220;grep rate /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state&#8221; to check battery consumption immediately after boot; I run glxgears in fullscreen<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-155-3' id='fnref-155-3'>3</a></sup>; further, I run nexuiz for a more realistic test, in full screen, maximum resolution and full effects. FPS value has been averaged after a 20 secs run of glxgears and a few minutes of playing first nexuiz level<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-155-4' id='fnref-155-4'>4</a></sup></p>
<h4>Test #1: Intel driver (with nouveau blacklisted)</h4>
<p>lsmod reports only intel drivers loaded<br />
Battery rate: 1800mW<br />
glxgears: 282 FPS<br />
Nexuiz: average 20 FPS, ranging from a minimum of 13 FPS to a peak of 27</p>
<p>Nothing to comment here.</p>
<h4>Test #2: Intel driver (without nouveau blacklisting)</h4>
<p>lsmod reports &#8220;nouveau&#8221; and intel drivers loaded<br />
Battery rate: 2100 mW<br />
glxgears: 283 FPS<br />
Nexuiz: 19 FPS, ranging from a minimum of 12 FPS to a peak of 29</p>
<p>Performance was identical to Intel driver without nouveau loaded, altough battery rate was higher. I suppose nvidia video card is activated, but it doesn&#8217;t help at all with 3D rendering. Looks like this solution has only downsides compared to the previous one.</p>
<p>Enabling nouveau should have added /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/, witch allows to manually enable or disable the nvidia GPU. At least, this is what happens on Natty. Instead, this doesn&#8217;t work on Oneiric. If someone has a reason for this, please feel free to comment.</p>
<h4>Test #3: NVIDIA proprietary driver</h4>
<p>lsmod reports &#8220;nvidia&#8221; and intel drivers loaded<br />
Battery rate: 2100 mW<br />
glxgears: N/A<br />
Nexuiz: N/A</p>
<p>I purged xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and installed nvidia-current due to the jockey crashes, and it was an epic fail. 3D was not available at all (glxgears reported &#8220;extension &#8216;GLX&#8217; missing&#8221;) and Nexuiz didn&#8217;t started as well. I tried to reconfigure graphic with nvidia-xconfig, but it caused X not to start at all (I had to delete the autogenerated /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to fix it). I never had a NVIDIA card and my experience with NVIDIA-related stuff is zero, so maybe I made something wrong or should tweak something else. Suggestions are welcome.</p>
<h4>Test #4: Bumblebee with NVIDIA proprietary drivers</h4>
<p>lsmod reports intel drivers only loaded (unless optirun is executed)<br />
Battery rate: 1600mW<br />
glxgears: 284 FPS<br />
optirun glxgears: 79 FPS<br />
nexuiz: 21 FPS, ranging from a minimum of 9 FPS to a peak of 29 FPS<br />
optirun nexuiz: 43 FPS, ranging from minimum of 33 FPS to a peak of 57 FPS.</p>
<p>I purged nvidia-current and installed bumblebee from PPA. Actually, bumblebee reinstalled nvidia-current but it worked quite well right now. During installations, bumblebee needs a configuration suitable for your machine. Several configurations are already available for many systems (bumblebee will download and suggests you good ones for your box). I choosed what was listed as &#8220;Profile 7: Dell System XPS 15z: Age (working)&#8221;, then choosed &#8220;XV (Default)&#8221; as Image transport. Further, I had to blacklist nouveau to avoid weird issues like lightdm freezes and optirun not properly working.</p>
<p>optirun is your friend here. You launch it passing as argument the program you want your nvidia card to be enabled for, and it loads nvidia driver, enables your card, then launches your software. Once done, it disables the card and rmmod&#8217;s nvidia, leaving every graphic duty to Intel integrated CPU. Results are quite different now: altough optirun glxgears reported a great performance loss <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-155-5' id='fnref-155-5'>5</a></sup>, the NVIDIA GPU made quite the difference playing nexuiz. Interestingly, battery rate is a bit lower than with Intel drivers only . It could be an artifact, or maybe this poll was particularly lucky.</p>
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<li id='fn-155-1'>FullHD display has been made available a few weeks after I bought my notebook, dammit! <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-155-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-155-2'>I know, proprietary stuff stinks and I don&#8217;t like it so much, but open source solutions don&#8217;t work, at least currently <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-155-2'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-155-3'>I exported vblank_mode=0 to get a vsync-independent value <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-155-3'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-155-4'>I noticed a lengthening of playing time during test. I suppose nexuiz is quite addictive <img src='http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-155-4'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-155-5'>I&#8217;m not sure why this happens, but I suppose this is a kind of artifact or such. Explanations are welcome <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-155-5'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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		<title>Una (gnome-)shell al giorno toglie Unity di torno</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, Natty non porterà gnome-shell sui vostri computer, a meno che non lo chiediate espressamente ad apt-get. Tuttavia, l&#8217;affezionatissimo vostro, fresco di Unity sul suo EEE da hacking battagliero on the road con Natty1, non poteva fare a meno di fare qualche giro di pista con gnome-shell2 in vista del rilascio finale che ormai dista [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, Natty non porterà gnome-shell sui vostri computer, a meno che non lo chiediate espressamente ad apt-get. Tuttavia, l&#8217;affezionatissimo vostro, fresco di Unity sul suo EEE da hacking battagliero on the road con Natty<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-110-1' id='fnref-110-1'>1</a></sup>, non poteva fare a meno di fare qualche giro di pista con gnome-shell<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-110-2' id='fnref-110-2'>2</a></sup> in vista del rilascio finale che ormai dista meno di un paio di mesi.  E poi, se permettete, pochi al mondo possono permettersi di compilare l&#8217;ashella con l&#8217;assistenza personalizzata di un membro del Release Team di GNOME, nonchè <a title="Parzialmente scremato" href="http://elleuca.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">mio-nuovo-tesoro-non-ancora-ammmore</a>, quindi, se permettete, io ne abuso alla grande.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, colto da improvvisa e inspiegabile bontà, eccomi a voi con questa guida quick-and-dirty per ottenere un&#8217;ashella sulla vostra installazione di Maverick, così che anche voi possiate godere di un po&#8217; di pornografia<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-110-3' id='fnref-110-3'>3</a></sup> gratuita sul vostro computer.</p>
<p><strong>Ingredienti per 4 persone:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>tre chili di computer;</li>
<li>due etti di scheda grafica Ati (avete una nvidia tagliata fina fina o qualche intel presa al discount sotto casa? Provate, ma non garantisco);</li>
<li>un terminale ben stagionato;</li>
<li>un cucchiaio di documentazione di <a title="live.gnome.org - GnomeShell" href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell" target="_blank">alta qualità</a>;</li>
<li>una birra (la Rochefort 8 si abbina molto bene all&#8217;aroma fruttato di jhbuild);</li>
<li>Ubuntu 10.04 q.b.</li>
</ul>
<p>Per cominciare, prendete un bicchiere a calice di foggia adeguata e versate la birra producendo adeguata schiuma. Godetevi i profumi emanati dalla vostra Rochefort e mettete da parte il tutto, vi servirà tra poco.</p>
<p>Subito dopo, prendete il vostro terminale stagionato e lanciate il c<a title="live.gnome.org - Removing .la files" href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles" target="_blank">omando indicato nel primo dei due Sacri Testi</a> per togliere di mezzo un po&#8217; di file .la. Potrebbe darsi che vi stiate chiedendo a cosa diavolo servano questi file e perchè dobbiate toglierli. Orbene, potrei dirvelo, ma poi dovrei uccidervi. Quindi fidatevi e spazzate via tutta quella roba. A vostro piacere, applicate anche l&#8217;orribile (ma comodo) comando aggiuntivo per evitare che i file in questioni sbuchino di nuovo fuori da ogni dove appena apt-get rimetterà le sue manacce sul vostro sistema.</p>
<p><a title="Fatto?" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbqstSMCCM" target="_blank">Fatto? Brrrene!</a> A questo punto possiamo fare sul serio. Aprite il <a title="live.gnome.org - Building GnomeShell" href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building" target="_blank">secondo Sacro Testo</a> e tenetelo sempre a disposizione per un rapido sguardo. La cosa interessante della compilazione dell&#8217;ashella è che può essere utilizzata direttamente dalla home, senza sporcare in giro. Quindi, prendete di nuovo il vostro terminale<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-110-4' id='fnref-110-4'>4</a></sup> e create una cartella apposita nella vostra home (ad esempio, <span style="font-family: Consolas, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;">~/gnome-shell</span>). Ora tirate giù l&#8217;apposito script:</p>
<pre>curl -O http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh</pre>
<p>e subito dopo lancietelo:</p>
<pre>/bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh</pre>
<p>Lo script controllerà che abbiate le dipendenze giuste, creerà un paio di cartelle che vi servono (segnatamente, <span style="font-family: Consolas, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;">~/bin </span>e <span style="font-family: Consolas, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;">~/Source</span>) e tirerà giù un jhbuild precotto che userete d&#8217;ora in poi. A questo punto potete sorseggiare un piccolo assaggio della vostra birra che nel frattempo avrà avuto modo di respirare e di perdere quel po&#8217; di schiuma in eccesso.</p>
<p>Prima di infornare serve un piccolo ritocchino. Applicate la <a title="git.gnome.org - Patch per libcanberra" href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/patches/libcanberra-quit-add.patch" target="_blank">pezza</a> al file giusto nella cartella <span style="font-family: Consolas, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;">~/gnome-shell/source/libcanberra-0.26/src/</span>, dopodichè spostatevi dentro <span style="font-family: Consolas, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre;">~/bin </span>e infornate a 180° per circa un&#8217;ora<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-110-5' id='fnref-110-5'>5</a></sup> con:</p>
<pre>./jhbuild build</pre>
<p>A questo punto, mentre il vostro computer sarà impegnato a compilare ben 33 diversi moduli, voi siete autorizzati a mettere le gambe sul tavolo, sbragarvi mollemente sulla poltrona e gustare la vostra Rochefort mentre ammirate le scrittine incomprensibili che scorrono sul vostro buon terminale stagionato.</p>
<p>Gli intenditori raccomandano la degustazione di gnome-shell appena sfornata, ancora calda, per poter godere di tutta la sua fragranza. Affilate il coltello e tagliate una fettina sottile sottile con:</p>
<pre>./jhbuild run gnome-shell --replace</pre>
<p>Purtroppo, non sempre le ricette vengano propio bene, specie quando uno le prova la prima volta. Infatti, potrebbe capitare che la vostra gnome-shell si sbricioli miseramente invece di sorprendervi col suo sapore. Talvolta la colpa è dei driver della scheda grafica, spiacevole evenienza accaduta anche all&#8217;affezionatissimo vostro. In tal caso, è sufficiente andare al supermercato Launchpad più vicino e comprare un po&#8217; di <a title="PPA xorg-edgers" href="https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa" target="_blank">driver Gallium</a> appena munti: li trovate sullo scaffale dei cibi pronti, tra le olive all&#8217;ascolana e la parmigiana di melanzane. Alcuni dicono che aggiungere i driver Gallium alla ricetta potrebbe danneggiare il vostro forno: in tal caso, rivolgetevi alle cure del <a title="PPA xorg-edgers - ppa-purge" href="https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/1252820/+listing-archive-extra" target="_blank">ppa-purge</a> che trovate in allegato.</p>
<p><i>Et voilà</i>: cotto, e mangiato! (cit.)</p>
<p><em>Note</em>:</p>
<div class='footnotes'>
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<ol>
<li id='fn-110-1'>reinstallata da capo più e più volte per colpa dell&#8217;hacking battagliero on the road&#8230; <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-110-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-110-2'>d&#8217;ora in poi, per brevità, &#8220;l&#8217;ashella&#8221; <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-110-2'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-110-3'>ogni riferimento a blogger (o presunti tali&#8230;) realmente esistenti è puramente casuale <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-110-3'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-110-4'>mi raccomando, la stagionatura è importante <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-110-4'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
<li id='fn-110-5'>il tempo di cottura potrebbe variare sensibilmente <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-110-5'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, mettiamola così: ubuntu@fermo è andata decisamente bene, nonostante le minacce di nevicate abbondanti, i consueti rischi sull&#8217;assenza del proiettore, i virus che hanno tentato (senza successo) di impedire ai relatori di raggiungere Fermo e svariati altri piccoli imprevisti che abbiamo dribblato con l&#8217;agilità del miglior Pelè dei tempi d&#8217;oro. Doverosi e quantomai meritati i [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Ok, mettiamola così: <a title="Wiki di ubuntu-it - Ubuntu@Fermo" href="http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/UbuntuAtFermo" target="_blank">ubuntu@fermo</a> è andata <strong>decisamente bene</strong>, nonostante le minacce di nevicate abbondanti, i consueti rischi sull&#8217;assenza del proiettore, i virus che hanno tentato (senza successo) di impedire ai relatori di raggiungere Fermo e svariati altri piccoli imprevisti che abbiamo dribblato con l&#8217;agilità del miglior Pelè dei tempi d&#8217;oro.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-74 aligncenter" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ubuntu@Fermo_500-300x225.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Doverosi e quantomai meritati i <strong>ringraziamenti</strong> per il <a title="FermoLUG" href="http://www.linuxfm.org" target="_blank">FermoLUG</a>, per la <a title="Ubuntu-it" href="http://www.ubuntu-it.org/" target="_blank">comunità di ubuntu-it</a>, per i relatori che sono arrivati da ogni dove, per le istituzioni che ci hanno concessi gli spazi per la conferenza, per il folto pubblico che si è unito a noi sabato. Un <strong>grazie</strong> enorme ad ognuno di voi. Il successo di questo evento è tutto merito vostro.<a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_2220.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-77 aligncenter" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_2220-1024x682.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="586" height="390" /></a></p>
<p>Visto che ci sono stati già dei <a title="Paolo Sammicheli’s Blog - Ubuntu@Fermo" href="http://xdatap1.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/ubuntufermo/" target="_blank">resoconti</a> <a title="Jeremie - FERMO’s not CUNEO" href="http://jereta.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/fermos-not-cuneo" target="_blank">dettagliati</a> sulla questione, posso concedermi il lusso di parlare di qualche piccolo <strong>retroscena</strong>. D&#8217;altra parte, sono queste le cose che vogliono sapere tutti, no?</p>
<h2>Logistica</h2>
<p>Cominciamo subito dal punto più delicato e che ha tenuto in ansia l&#8217;intera comunità per giorni: <a title="Lucciole e lanterne" href="http://dolasilla.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Silvia</a> ce l&#8217;ha fatta ad arrivare a Fermo, senza sbagliare <strong>stazione</strong>. Ok, ha ricevuto un piccolo aiutino nell&#8217;arrivare fin qui, ma siamo tutti orgogliosi dei progressi che sta facendo da Perugia. Brava!</p>
<h2>Vettovagliamenti</h2>
<p>Se volete organizzare un meeting nella vostra città, ricordatevi che le attività intellettuali richiedono un&#8217;alimentazione sana. Inoltre, noi di ubuntu-it mangiamo. E anche <strong>parecchio</strong>.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-82 aligncenter" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSCN5406_500.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>La comunità si è particolarmente contraddistinta nell&#8217;apprezzamento di certi <strong>aperitivi</strong> in un certo bar in Piazza del Popolo, come confermano le <a title="Il modesto aperitivo in Piazza del Popolo" href="http://u1.ipernity.com/17/58/48/9915848.3926daee.1024.jpg" target="_blank">testimonianze</a> <a title="Il modesto aperitivo in Piazza del Popolo" href="http://u1.ipernity.com/17/59/20/9915920.9c0d8185.560.jpg" target="_blank">fotografiche</a>. Qualche giorno fa sono tornato nello stesso bar in compagnia di un&#8217;amica e il volto del barman si è rapidamente adombrato quando si è accorto che non stava entrando la consueta combriccola multietnica e poliglotta del fine settimana scorso. Mi spiace, amico barman, <i>non può essere sempre Pasqua</i> (cit.).</p>
<h2>Documentazione audio-video</h2>
<p>La comunità è ben fornita di appassionati fotografi e la <a title="Foto di Daniele Colò" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/daniele.colo/Ubuntuatfermo#" target="_blank">documentazione</a> <a title="Foto di Milo Casagrande" href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/23318/album/222309" target="_blank">fotografica</a> è <a title="Foto di Jeremie Tamburini" href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/jeremie/album/222491" target="_blank">ottima</a> e <a title="Foto di Paolo Sammicheli" href="http://www.ipernity.com/doc/20353/album/222324" target="_blank">abbondante</a>. Ci sarebbe anche un <a title="Video di Ubuntu@Fermo" href="http://andreacolangelo.com/ubuntuatfermo.mp4.torrent" target="_blank">video</a>, opportunamente torrentizzato, ma soprattutto depurato da tutti i commenti maligni che il proprietario di questo blog ha espresso inavvertitamente nelle vicinanze della telecamera. A breve, <strong>filmati</strong> in streaming dei singoli talk saranno inseriti direttamente sul <a title="FermoLUG" href="http://www.fermolug.org" target="_blank">sito del FermoLUG</a>.</p>
<h2>I talk</h2>
<p>Devo dire che la qualità dei talk è stata piuttosto <strong>alta</strong>, riscuotendo un notevole successo tra il pubblico, opportunamente interrogato a fine conferenza e nei giorni successivi.</p>
<p>A scanso di equivoci, se vi sentite vicini alla comunità di <strong>Debian</strong> e notate <a title="Foto compromettente..." href="http://picasaweb.google.com/daniele.colo/Ubuntuatfermo#5566269493296646610" target="_blank">foto che potrebbero urtare la vostra sensibilità</a>, aspettate di guardare il video completo prima di partire con una <strong>distro-flame</strong>. L&#8217;apparenza inganna, come sempre.</p>
<p>Ah, se organizzate un meeting ricordatevi di tenere allegri i vostri relatori, farà bene ai loro talk. A volte basta poco, qualche dolcetto su un&#8217;alzatina e quel <strong>fanciullino</strong> che è dentro di loro salta subito fuori.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSCN5566_500.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-84" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DSCN5566_500.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<h2>Location, location, location!</h2>
<p>Ok, il <strong>San Martino</strong> è una figata. L&#8217;idea era fare il meeting in un luogo più piccino per dare l&#8217;impressione del pienone, ma ce l&#8217;hanno soffiato all&#8217;ultimo. Però <a title="San Martino" href="http://u1.ipernity.com/17/76/14/9907614.b22e00f5.1024.jpg" target="_blank">il San Martino è una figata</a>, e va bene così.</p>
<p>Quando si organizzano eventi del genere, la location è importante, e le dimensioni contano. Jeremie ne sa qualcosa.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Misure-errate_500.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-83" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Misure-errate_500.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="375" height="500" /></a></p>
<h2><strong>Varie ed eventuali</strong></h2>
<p>Probabilmente Ubuntu@Fermo farà il <strong>bis</strong> l&#8217;anno prossimo, vedremo. Sicuramente in un mese con un minore rischio neve e più godibile un pò da tutti: il proprietario di questo blog non può permettersi di trascorrere un&#8217;altra settimana ad aggiornare ogni 10 minuti il sito di ilmeteo.it, che tra l&#8217;altro ha preso una <strong>cantonata</strong> clamorosa.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-86" title="Ubuntu@Fermo" src="http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/doc.9907589_5001.jpg" alt="Ubuntu@Fermo" width="500" height="334" /></p>
<p>Dimenticavo: bisognerebbe parlare di <strong>Cuneo</strong>, ma ho firmato un NDA. Se siete curiosi e non riuscite a resistere, provate a chiedere a <a title="Parzialmente scremato" href="http://elleuca.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">elleuca</a>.</p>
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		<title>Five good reasons to take an holiday in Italy right this month.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Colangelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of nice places to visit&#8230; &#8230;and food is fantastic (yeah, you are right: the usual, boring stereotypes). No, I won&#8217;t talk about the dolce vita here too, sorry. A lot of Ubuntu {Members, Developers} are from Italy&#8230; and you will have the great chance to meet some of them if you join us at [...]]]></description>
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<li><span style="line-height: 19px;">There are lots of nice places to visit&#8230; </span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">&#8230;and food is fantastic (yeah, you are right: the usual, boring stereotypes).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19px;">No, I won&#8217;t talk about the <em>dolce vita</em> here too, sorry.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19px;">A lot of Ubuntu {Members, Developers} are from Italy&#8230;</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19px;">and you will have the great chance to meet some of them if you join us at Ubuntu@Fermo!</span></li>
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<p><a title="Ubuntu@Fermo" href="http://ubuntuone.com/p/W11/" target="_blank">Ubuntu@Fermo</a> is a meeting dedicated to our favourite distro, that will take place on Saturday, January 22th in <a title="Wikipedia - Fermo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermo" target="_blank">Fermo</a>, a gorgeous, small city in centern Italy. The event is organized by <a title="FermoLUG" href="http://www.linuxfm.org/home/" target="_blank">FermoLUG</a>, the local Linux User Group, that invited several members from the <a title="Ubuntu-it" href="http://www.ubuntu-it.org/" target="_blank">Italian LocoTeam</a> for a day of talks about Ubuntu.</p>
<p><a title="Launchpad - Paolo Sammicheli" href="https://launchpad.net/~xdatap1" target="_blank">Paolo Sammicheli</a> will welcome the audience with a talk about Free Software, then <a title="Launchpad - Flavia Weisghizzi" href="https://launchpad.net/~flavia.weisghizzi" target="_blank">Flavia Weisghizzi</a> and <a title="Launchpad - Luca Ferretti" href="https://launchpad.net/~elle.uca" target="_blank">Luca Ferretti</a> will present their new book about Ubuntu 10.10. Then, it will be my time for a talk about common, wrong myths around Ubuntu. After the talk, the dynamic duo <a title="Launchpad - Flavia Weisghizzi" href="https://launchpad.net/~flavia.weisghizzi" target="_blank">Flavia Weisghizzi</a> &amp; <a title="Launchpad - Silvia Bindelli" href="https://launchpad.net/~silvia-bindelli" target="_blank">Silvia Bindelli</a> will introduce Ubuntu-it-women, an important, appreciated project about women partecipation to Free Software. The day will be closed by <a title="Launchpad - Andrea Gasparini" href="https://launchpad.net/~gaspa" target="_blank">Andrea Gasparini</a>, from the <em>Italian Ubuntu Developers Mafia Famiglia</em> (cit. <a title="Launchpad - Daniel Holbach" href="https://launchpad.net/~dholbach" target="_blank">Daniel Holbach</a>) with a talk about Opportunistic Development with Ubuntu, and later <a title="Launchpad - Milo Casagrande" href="https://launchpad.net/~milo" target="_blank">Milo Casagrande</a> &amp; <a title="Launchpad - Luca Ferretti" href="https://launchpad.net/~elle.uca" target="_blank">Luca Ferretti</a>, with their GNOME hat on, with a long awaited talk about GNOME 3, Unity and all that jazz.</p>
<p>Further details are available on this page on the ubuntu-it wiki. Have you bought your plane ticket already?</p>
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		<title>Resolutions for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improve my English Upload more packages into Ubuntu Archive. Close all my ITP in Debian Code more. Muck around less. Read less pixel, more ink. Less TV, more music. Write more on this blog. Take more exams (as it doesn&#8217;t hurt). Stop deferring 2010&#8242;s resolutions. In the meantime, I wish you all a serene and [...]]]></description>
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<li>Improve my English</li>
<li>Upload more packages into Ubuntu Archive.</li>
<li>Close all my ITP in Debian</li>
<li>Code more.</li>
<li>Muck around less.</li>
<li>Read less pixel, more ink.</li>
<li>Less TV, more music.</li>
<li>Write more on this blog.</li>
<li>Take more exams (as it doesn&#8217;t hurt).</li>
<li>Stop deferring 2010&#8242;s resolutions.</li>
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<p>In the meantime, I wish you all a serene and fulfilling 2011.</p>
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