The student is the reason for the university
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Infant Sour Smell Poop

What if the National Assembly of Venezuela published the draft ICT Act (or as they call Now "Infogobierno") on Wikipedia?
New Zealand is a fairly progressive. Apart from being a scale replica of Middle Earth, is the first country that makes its laws nothing more nor less than with a Wiki. In the same way that thousands of users collaborate to build data bases such as Wikipedia, the new version of the Police Act will be amended, discussed and reviewed by users and then turn to review the Senate, who are responsible for late aprobarla.Con this system not only citizens cast their vote, but will contribute to improving society. And the system is not only New Zealanders registringido but worldwide. Por que las buenas ideas vienen de todas partes, y nada mejor que las posibilidades de la web 2.0 para unir colaboración con democracia a escala global.
Fuente:
Fayer Wayer
Tomado de: http://www.giraenlared.info
Friday, September 28, 2007
Public Indoor Basketball Courts In New Jer
New Zealand 2.0 and V Wikidemocracia
El V Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre se realizará en la ciudad de Puerto Ordaz, Estado Bolívar desde el día 19 hasta el día 23 de Noviembre del año 2007. El Hotel Intercontinental será el recinto que acogerá este evento y abrirá sus puertas desde las 8 de la mañana hasta las 7 de la noche.
El V Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre es un evento internacional, multitemático, open and inclusive communities organized in conjunction with researchers, practitioners and users, private companies and the Bolivarian Government.
national and international guests with outstanding issues that represent the themes of the Forum. II Users Group Meeting:
Communities have their space dedicated in the Forum, which may be organized in the stands Hacklabs assigned and present projects and achievements in a dedicated room.
Workshops:
workshops organized by national speakers and international, seeking to train local talent in the knowledge about new technologies. They were developed 19 and 20 November, and sponsors provide equipment for their realization.
Complementary Activities:
will include promotional events, cultural and education on safety and best practices. Also in this issue include spontaneous BOFs and lobbying. I
Children's World Knowledge Forum Libre: With the premise of Educating for not reeducate, has created a forum for participation of children. Main Topics
This year, the World Knowledge Forum Free cover issues encompassed in several areas of interest, described below. It is important to note that this year will greatly diversify the range of issues addressed in response to global developments in the dissemination of knowledge.
Free Software: Use, dissemination and development of Free Software. Of special interest collaborative tools for software development and information and communication platforms. Hardware Free:
views and experiences on the feasibility and need to transfer the basic concepts of free software to hardware. Free Culture: Manifestations of knowledge
free lifestyles and the customs that emerge in the context of the knowledge society.
Economics:
business models and exchange mechanisms necessary for free access to knowledge.
Legal Aspects: Legal Models
line with the new knowledge society.
Free Art: Artistic Manifestations
under the Free Knowledge.
Migration: Experiences
the migration to free software. Organizers and Institutions
The organization that originally proposed the idea of \u200b\u200bthe event and has been responsible for the concepts and activities of Free Software selection has been Venezuela, a group of activists from mass use Free Software and promoters of knowledge and community involvement.
So far, sponsors and partners in the logistics are
Caroni Electrification - EDELCA
Corporación Venezolana de Guayana and all basic industries.
National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL)
Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV - Caracas)
CNTI
Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology.
Institute for Studies and Research Technology (ISEIT). Merida Fundacite
CENDITEL
SAPI
History Started in 2004 in Caracas and from He has traveled to Kerala (India) to Maracaibo and Maturin to bring communities the knowledge, technology and freedom of information.
The first such event was held in Caracas in November 2004 under the name of First Global Forum on Free Technology.
The second event was held in Thiruvanthapuram, India, under the name of Free Software, Free Society, with the participation of many Hindu organizations involved in the promotion of SL, including FSF India.
The third event was the Third World Free Knowledge Forum, held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, sponsored by PDVSA, CONATEL, CVG and other agencies State and private companies.
The fourth event was the Fourth World Free Knowledge Forum, held in the city of Maturin, in Monagas state from 17 to 21 October 2006.
Ultimately, the Global Forum on Free Knowledge, has become a regional reference for discussion, dissemination of free knowledge.
Source: http://foromundial.solve.net.ve/
El V Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre se realizará en la ciudad de Puerto Ordaz, Estado Bolívar desde el día 19 hasta el día 23 de Noviembre del año 2007. El Hotel Intercontinental será el recinto que acogerá este evento y abrirá sus puertas desde las 8 de la mañana hasta las 7 de la noche.
El V Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre es un evento internacional, multitemático, open and inclusive communities organized in conjunction with researchers, practitioners and users, private companies and the Bolivarian Government.
Dynamics:
On this occasion, the Free Knowledge Forum will present different environments with different dynamics:
Invited Speakers: 
Communities have their space dedicated in the Forum, which may be organized in the stands Hacklabs assigned and present projects and achievements in a dedicated room.
Workshops:
workshops organized by national speakers and international, seeking to train local talent in the knowledge about new technologies. They were developed 19 and 20 November, and sponsors provide equipment for their realization.
Complementary Activities:
will include promotional events, cultural and education on safety and best practices. Also in this issue include spontaneous BOFs and lobbying. I
Children's World Knowledge Forum Libre: With the premise of Educating for not reeducate, has created a forum for participation of children. Main Topics
This year, the World Knowledge Forum Free cover issues encompassed in several areas of interest, described below. It is important to note that this year will greatly diversify the range of issues addressed in response to global developments in the dissemination of knowledge.

free lifestyles and the customs that emerge in the context of the knowledge society.
Economics:
business models and exchange mechanisms necessary for free access to knowledge.
Legal Aspects: Legal Models
line with the new knowledge society.
Free Art: Artistic Manifestations
under the Free Knowledge.
Migration: Experiences
the migration to free software. Organizers and Institutions
The organization that originally proposed the idea of \u200b\u200bthe event and has been responsible for the concepts and activities of Free Software selection has been Venezuela, a group of activists from mass use Free Software and promoters of knowledge and community involvement.
So far, sponsors and partners in the logistics are
Caroni Electrification - EDELCA
Corporación Venezolana de Guayana and all basic industries.
National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL)
Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV - Caracas)
CNTI
Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology.
Institute for Studies and Research Technology (ISEIT). Merida Fundacite
CENDITEL
SAPI
History Started in 2004 in Caracas and from He has traveled to Kerala (India) to Maracaibo and Maturin to bring communities the knowledge, technology and freedom of information.
The first such event was held in Caracas in November 2004 under the name of First Global Forum on Free Technology.
The second event was held in Thiruvanthapuram, India, under the name of Free Software, Free Society, with the participation of many Hindu organizations involved in the promotion of SL, including FSF India.
The third event was the Third World Free Knowledge Forum, held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, sponsored by PDVSA, CONATEL, CVG and other agencies State and private companies.
The fourth event was the Fourth World Free Knowledge Forum, held in the city of Maturin, in Monagas state from 17 to 21 October 2006.
Ultimately, the Global Forum on Free Knowledge, has become a regional reference for discussion, dissemination of free knowledge.
Source: http://foromundial.solve.net.ve/
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Buy Koreaan Chili Flakes
Free Knowledge Forum in Venezuela
Some workshops and papers presented at the XX Conference Infociencia:
CONFERENCE:
METHODOLOGY TO BUILD A ROBOT BRAIN OF VIABLE
Technological progress gives the roboticist a powerful hardware-software platform to develop robotic brain. Our actual ability to set such brain is another story and to date we can not build reliable biped robots or robots that understand and translate natural languages.
This work we resort to several basic principles for establishing a methodology to build robots in a structured brain, can be extrapolated to very complex.
As a first principle envision the brain as a system that continuously and at different systemic levels, seeks solutions to problems. We hold that such a mechanism becomes operational advantages if the search space it has a Brownian nature. This for properties unique math associated with Brownian motion.
completed our theoretical framework with five basic principles from the work of researchers and experts from different branches of human knowledge. These considerations
establishing a neural-evolutionary method for obtaining, using simulated evolution, brain structures and behavior very advantageous and capable of integrating into more complex entities. Finally, these brains are transferred to real robots which also demonstrate its unique qualities.
Speaker: Oscar Chang
PHD CONFERENCE:
INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT
A video game is based mostly on programming and therefore it is important that all who want to design or build some kind of video game programming with knowledge and experience in this area.
The fundamental role of the author of a video game is the development of the system, with its objects and associated properties, their relationships among themselves and with the user, and the rules that govern the behavior of the whole. Once this has been developed and can say it works completely the game at an abstract level. From then you can give objects meaning, they can consider them characters and story, but it is always essential and primary game system, and rules that make it work.
The paper aims to introduce participants to the way games are developed. Describe roles, tools and methodologies more common in game development, and will be discussed in more detail the process of scheduling games, in particular, how the different disciplines related impact on the programming of the game: graphics programming, artificial intelligence, distributed programming, among others.
Conferencist:
Hernan Moraldo
CONFERENCE:
ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT: between apocalyptic and Embedded
The Information and Communication Technologies today constitute the backbone of a new paradigm of social organization, which is evidenced by incorporating information products in their material composition, production processes and the realization of it as a privileged product of the economy. Here
presents reflections on the problem of e-government from the perspective of participatory democracy, analyzing limitations and capabilities meet the needs of society infoestructurales Venezuela. Apocalyptic positions are reviewed and integrated information on the connection between ICT-Democracy, indicating that both underlying determinism that prevent noticing the fact that our societies are not homogeneous and that we have from complex approaches that allow them to explore and recognize dimensions can operate the ICT policy and which are not. The paper also summarizes the research experience cibergráfica (1999-2003), prior to the development phase of the line for electronic government (2003-2007), drawing some guidelines that can already be seen.
The theme keywords include: ICT, citizenship, democracy, governance, society information.
Speaker: Angel Paez Master
WORKSHOP
NI NI TAN TAN CATHEDRAL BAZAAR, debian community development project
Debian project is analyzed as a successful model of free software development. It refers to the elements of the development platform, the tools themselves and the process to be followed by each individual who wishes to become a Debian developer
. So, you want to show that the high level of product quality is the result of efforts by a group of people who apply models of development in the achievement of a final achievement:
have a stronger distributions
the free software community. "
Facilitator: Mr. Hector Colina
For more information: http://infociencias.org
Some workshops and papers presented at the XX Conference Infociencia:
CONFERENCE:
METHODOLOGY TO BUILD A ROBOT BRAIN OF VIABLE
Technological progress gives the roboticist a powerful hardware-software platform to develop robotic brain. Our actual ability to set such brain is another story and to date we can not build reliable biped robots or robots that understand and translate natural languages.
This work we resort to several basic principles for establishing a methodology to build robots in a structured brain, can be extrapolated to very complex.
As a first principle envision the brain as a system that continuously and at different systemic levels, seeks solutions to problems. We hold that such a mechanism becomes operational advantages if the search space it has a Brownian nature. This for properties unique math associated with Brownian motion.
completed our theoretical framework with five basic principles from the work of researchers and experts from different branches of human knowledge. These considerations
establishing a neural-evolutionary method for obtaining, using simulated evolution, brain structures and behavior very advantageous and capable of integrating into more complex entities. Finally, these brains are transferred to real robots which also demonstrate its unique qualities.
Speaker: Oscar Chang
PHD CONFERENCE:
INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT
In recent years video games have been presented in an increasingly, as an important social and economic phenomenon, perhaps even essential to understand these times. Creating video games is basically an art that can be expressed in many ways, it all depends on the creativity of the developer to use the tools at your fingertips, and create the need.
The process of developing a video game meets the life cycle of software development, since there are stages of analysis, design, production, testing and maintenance, but the ingredient that makes the difference is given by creative contributions to be taken into consideration, these contributions should be directed largely to entertainment features that imply the end user. A video game is based mostly on programming and therefore it is important that all who want to design or build some kind of video game programming with knowledge and experience in this area.
The fundamental role of the author of a video game is the development of the system, with its objects and associated properties, their relationships among themselves and with the user, and the rules that govern the behavior of the whole. Once this has been developed and can say it works completely the game at an abstract level. From then you can give objects meaning, they can consider them characters and story, but it is always essential and primary game system, and rules that make it work.
The paper aims to introduce participants to the way games are developed. Describe roles, tools and methodologies more common in game development, and will be discussed in more detail the process of scheduling games, in particular, how the different disciplines related impact on the programming of the game: graphics programming, artificial intelligence, distributed programming, among others.
Conferencist:
Hernan Moraldo
CONFERENCE:
ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT: between apocalyptic and Embedded
The Information and Communication Technologies today constitute the backbone of a new paradigm of social organization, which is evidenced by incorporating information products in their material composition, production processes and the realization of it as a privileged product of the economy. Here
presents reflections on the problem of e-government from the perspective of participatory democracy, analyzing limitations and capabilities meet the needs of society infoestructurales Venezuela. Apocalyptic positions are reviewed and integrated information on the connection between ICT-Democracy, indicating that both underlying determinism that prevent noticing the fact that our societies are not homogeneous and that we have from complex approaches that allow them to explore and recognize dimensions can operate the ICT policy and which are not. The paper also summarizes the research experience cibergráfica (1999-2003), prior to the development phase of the line for electronic government (2003-2007), drawing some guidelines that can already be seen.
The theme keywords include: ICT, citizenship, democracy, governance, society information.
Speaker: Angel Paez Master
WORKSHOP
NI NI TAN TAN CATHEDRAL BAZAAR, debian community development project
Debian project is analyzed as a successful model of free software development. It refers to the elements of the development platform, the tools themselves and the process to be followed by each individual who wishes to become a Debian developer
. So, you want to show that the high level of product quality is the result of efforts by a group of people who apply models of development in the achievement of a final achievement:
have a stronger distributions
the free software community. "
Facilitator: Mr. Hector Colina
For more information: http://infociencias.org
Adding Alias Name To Deed Poll
conferences and workshops presented at the XX Conference
I had the opportunity to participate as speaker in Infociencia XX Days, held between 20 and 21 September 2007 in the Grand Salon of the Hotel Principe Barquisimeto Edo. Lara. It is a biannual event organized by students of the X semester of Computer Engineering of the University " Lisandro Alvarado ", in which they have the opportunity to link with the social world through information systems projects. On this occasion, the students developed systems: □
Athena (Guidance Department of the development direction of the UCLA student) □
Ignos (Community Service)
□ Soviet (Community Councils)
□ Argos (See
APUCLA Social
What are Infociencia?
Infociencia Journeys is an event of great significance and projections for the University "Lisandro Alvarado", the students organize trainees Information System, chair belonging to X semester career in Computer Engineering this prestigious study. This event is a series of lectures where involved Speakers regional, national and international. Bring together over 600 participants, comprised of students of this university, foreign students, professionals and the general public, all following the same trend: that of knowledge generation and updating of techniques and tools transformative paradigms in the area of \u200b\u200bScience and Technology. Days
born as a response to the concern of integrating the university and the productive sector, focus of their implementation, thus projecting the future in Computer Engineering in the job market as competitive today as well enable them to show their ability to solve real problems.
Topics staged these days are:
• Network Security.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• VoIP.
• Free Software.
• Web Development.
• Development of Video Games. • Management,
• Electronic Government.
Mission.
Provide educational and business community, an excellent range of services and quality products in the area of \u200b\u200bInformation Technology and Telecommunications, through de la gestión, que implica el desarrollo de las actividades asociadas a la organización
Visión
Constituirse como la organización pionera en la integración del sector educativo con el sector productivo nacional e internacional, permitiendo la adquisición y difusión de conocimientos innovadores en el área de la tecnología de información en las organizaciones
Objetivos.
• Integrar a los estudiantes de la UCLA con el sector productivo.
• Dar un conocimiento integral e innovador en el área de Tecnología de Información y Telecomunicaciones a la comunidad, en cuanto a los avances de Software, Hardware, Telecomunicaciones, Gerencia y Recursos Humanos
• Project and future entrepreneurs and professionals versatile organizers of the conference Infociencia.
• Promote new areas of Information Technology and Telecommunications, for inclusion in the corporate sector.
• Exchanging ideas and opinions between national and international speakers.
Coordinator Organizing Committee General Secretary
Vanessa Khawam
General Majano
Keny
Coordinator Adriana Alfonzo
Finance Sub-Coordinator Finance Coordinator
Laurys Rivero
Colleen Luna Imaging Sub-Coordinator
Francisco Méndez Image
Lectures Coordinator Rafael Villegas
Papers Sub-Coordinator Maria Leyba
Marketing Coordinator José Ignacio Garrido
Sub-Marketing Coordinator Maria de los Angeles
Bolivar
For more information: http://infociencias.org
I had the opportunity to participate as speaker in Infociencia XX Days, held between 20 and 21 September 2007 in the Grand Salon of the Hotel Principe Barquisimeto Edo. Lara. It is a biannual event organized by students of the X semester of Computer Engineering of the University " Lisandro Alvarado ", in which they have the opportunity to link with the social world through information systems projects. On this occasion, the students developed systems: □
Athena (Guidance Department of the development direction of the UCLA student) □
Ignos (Community Service)
□ Soviet (Community Councils)
□ Argos (See
APUCLA Social
What are Infociencia?
Infociencia Journeys is an event of great significance and projections for the University "Lisandro Alvarado", the students organize trainees Information System, chair belonging to X semester career in Computer Engineering this prestigious study. This event is a series of lectures where involved Speakers regional, national and international. Bring together over 600 participants, comprised of students of this university, foreign students, professionals and the general public, all following the same trend: that of knowledge generation and updating of techniques and tools transformative paradigms in the area of \u200b\u200bScience and Technology. Days
born as a response to the concern of integrating the university and the productive sector, focus of their implementation, thus projecting the future in Computer Engineering in the job market as competitive today as well enable them to show their ability to solve real problems.
Topics staged these days are:
• Network Security.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• VoIP.
• Free Software.
• Web Development.
• SAP.
• AJAX.
• Wireless Technology. • SOA. 
• Electronic Government.
Mission.
Provide educational and business community, an excellent range of services and quality products in the area of \u200b\u200bInformation Technology and Telecommunications, through de la gestión, que implica el desarrollo de las actividades asociadas a la organización
Visión
Constituirse como la organización pionera en la integración del sector educativo con el sector productivo nacional e internacional, permitiendo la adquisición y difusión de conocimientos innovadores en el área de la tecnología de información en las organizaciones
Objetivos.
• Integrar a los estudiantes de la UCLA con el sector productivo.
• Dar un conocimiento integral e innovador en el área de Tecnología de Información y Telecomunicaciones a la comunidad, en cuanto a los avances de Software, Hardware, Telecomunicaciones, Gerencia y Recursos Humanos
• Project and future entrepreneurs and professionals versatile organizers of the conference Infociencia.
• Promote new areas of Information Technology and Telecommunications, for inclusion in the corporate sector.
• Exchanging ideas and opinions between national and international speakers.
Coordinator Organizing Committee General Secretary
Vanessa Khawam
General Majano
Keny
Coordinator Adriana Alfonzo
Finance Sub-Coordinator Finance Coordinator
Laurys Rivero
Colleen Luna Imaging Sub-Coordinator
Francisco Méndez Image
Lectures Coordinator Rafael Villegas
Papers Sub-Coordinator Maria Leyba
Marketing Coordinator José Ignacio Garrido
Sub-Marketing Coordinator Maria de los Angeles
Bolivar
For more information: http://infociencias.org
Where Can I Get Brazilian In Mississauga
Infociencia Computer & XX Days Community in Reading
I leave then Lugín raises a concern on his blog and follow the line of reflection on the creation of public policies on ICT in Venezuela. On the one hand the authorities planners and implementers on the other. Establishing the legal framework to move the country towards self-determination in ICT but does not run by management failures. It is very interesting reading thus the full posting.
The wolf in sheep. Millions of Venezuelans
about to be deceived by Microsoft and false revolutionaries ... Do you allow it?
Luigino Bracci Roa
Aporrea
Do you know the steps that President Chavez and the Venezuelan government are being taken to prevent recurrence, by negligence or lack of speed, a technological failure that affects our country, similar which affected PDVSA and the Venezuelan oil industry in 2002? Do you know the actions that foreign trasnsnacionales monopolies are currently running against these measures, with the complicity of public officials? Do you know that, right now, is making a vote that, if manipulated by a well-known transnational information could affect the sovereignty of our country?
President Chavez signed in 2004 by Decree 3390, ordering that the public administration IT systems migrate to Free Software and Open Standards. It is a measure which, for some, may seem tedious, but whose success depends on technological independence of the country's computer systems, that we Venezuelans are not just users of computers and software sold to us from abroad, but we know how to modify, adapt them to our needs, enhance and share them with other people who also needed. So that nobody can stop our industries back again!
are many reasons why some are betting that the 3390 Act fails (there are many multimillion dollar contracts and commissions involved), and there are many strategies used to it.
Microsoft Strategy: Pretend to be "Free Software"
Microsoft, the renowned company that sells millions of copies of Windows and Office every year, generating a surplus so large that, in just two decades, created two ten men with more money in the world. Gains derived by a single man (Bill Gates) has had to deny the world the knowledge behind Windows and its derivatives, is much higher than the international reserves of Venezuela, an oil producing country with 26 million inhabitants!
Despite its multibillion-dollar profits, Microsoft became the main enemy of Decree 3390. Last year, the MNC won the support of a popular deputy "Chavez" and the principal government agency for information technology, to try to pass the "Law of Infogobierno", which basically changed the definition of "Software Libre" to adjust as needed Microsoft, and enable it to continue selling its software to the State, this time in a massive way.
Microsoft's strategy was not to attack free software, but try to change their concept to fool the gullible and make Microsoft's proprietary applications may be acquired by the State. In other words, Microsoft's strategy was similar to say, "change the definition of socialism, so that all capitalist masquerading as socialist." Similar to the sentence of a former director of CNTI, who said in an interview: "free technologies include all technologies, including free technologies and non-free" [4]
had not been strong protest by the revolutionary government officials and many members of the Free Software community, most likely this law had been adopted, with disastrous consequences for the country's sovereignty.
OpenXML: In 2007 the strategy is repeated
A year later, the software transnational returns with the same modus operandi:
Microsoft seeks a Non-Governmental Organization Fondonorma on behalf of all of Venezuela, approved as OSI standard formats for Microsoft Office 2007, cynically called "OpenXML (. docx,. xlsx,. pptx, etc., also called Office Open XML or OOXML). His intention is primarily commercial: to achieve this will require millions of individuals, companies and public and private entities to acquire the new Office 2007 to manipulate these files.
The goal again is not to cancel the free software or open standards, but "change concepts" for the unwary to believe that Microsoft's format is an open standard.
An open standard is one whose specifications can be known and used by anyone. For example, everyone knows that a traffic light is flashing red, yellow and green, each with a specific meaning. It is a standard, something that we all agreed. If you morning they decided to make traffic lights, do not have to ask anyone's permission to use the colors red, yellow and green. Nobody owns the colors, so no one can come to ask for royalties for use at a stoplight.
opposite are closed or proprietary standards: those whose internal specification remains partially or completely secret, and is required to pay royalties to use them. For example, if you want to mount a movie and put the logo "Dolby Digital", has to pay a huge amount of money on equipment and certifications, and who meet standards for a private company authorized to place the logo in its films .
The objective of Microsoft is that Fondonorma declare "open standard" closed standard, using their influence in public and private officials. In Fondonorma, many public bodies are entitled to vote, as members of academia and business. Microsoft again has influenced various public officials such as CENIT and PDVSA, among others, to vote in his favor. Another strange case is constituted by a representative of the Central University of Venezuela, who says vote on behalf of this university, but also an employee of Microsoft and defends their interests.
Microsoft OpenXML formats are NOT open standards and free: Large portions of it are closed (it is not possible how cer cone) and depend on sizes and specifications are not known. In addition, more than 300 technical errors. More information can be seen in references [1] [2] and [3]
Microsoft OpenXML formats required to purchase Microsoft's proprietary applications to use: Because of the difficulties and obstacles that Microsoft has in its pseudo-standard will be very difficult to create software that achieves fully comply with its parameters. Most people prefer to buy proprietary software from Microsoft, claiming that "those they do well," free to choose applications that can only partially implemented.
OpenXML is patented by Microsoft, this makes the possibility of free applications can open and save with confidence. Microsoft may, at any time, require royalties or threaten to sue those who make programs that use this format.
There are alternatives to OpenXML, OpenDocument itself is an open standard, approved by standards bodies like OASIS OSI. Its specifications are fully available. It is free of patents. It is built on many open standards, and a huge variety of applications that can manipulate: OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice, and even Microsoft Office using a plugin. Microsoft could use as its standard for records if so desired.
Again, our Venezuelan government, anti-imperialist, pro-socialist and anti-neoliberal, is in tremendous ideological contradiction when some of its officials decide to vote and support to Microsoft, such as monopolistic transnational neoliberalism summit, to their proprietary standards become "open" standards. Having done that, many officials feel "allowed" to buy thousands of licenses of proprietary software Microsoft Office 2007, so you can continue to open and manipulate these files in the coming years, with a high probability that data nation are not perennial.
Although some people seem a purely technical and of little interest to the popular sectors and the general population, the fact is that this is a political issue. This is not to attack Microsoft because we fall ill, because it is a foreign or transnational because it is the world's largest computer monopoly. It is that the company is trying to mislead millions of Venezuelans, technology affecting our sovereignty and our right to store the data of all Venezuelans in formats that can be handled without relying on foreign-owned products.
apparently
Final votes will be held on 2 September. If you work in a State agency, do you know the position of the Department of Informatics of his body brought before Fondonorma? If you work or study in an autonomous university, do you know what will be the delivery of the same? We demand
know.
References:
[1] http://www.jesuslara.com.ve/blog/2007/08/24/argumentos-tecnicos-en-contra-de-ooxml-i-parte/
[2] http://www.openxml.info/
[3] http://www.noooxml.org/
[4] http://lubrio.blogspot.com/2006/02/jorge -Berrizbeitia-on-the-case-java.html
I leave then Lugín raises a concern on his blog and follow the line of reflection on the creation of public policies on ICT in Venezuela. On the one hand the authorities planners and implementers on the other. Establishing the legal framework to move the country towards self-determination in ICT but does not run by management failures. It is very interesting reading thus the full posting.
The wolf in sheep. Millions of Venezuelans
about to be deceived by Microsoft and false revolutionaries ... Do you allow it?
Luigino Bracci Roa
Aporrea
Do you know the steps that President Chavez and the Venezuelan government are being taken to prevent recurrence, by negligence or lack of speed, a technological failure that affects our country, similar which affected PDVSA and the Venezuelan oil industry in 2002? Do you know the actions that foreign trasnsnacionales monopolies are currently running against these measures, with the complicity of public officials? Do you know that, right now, is making a vote that, if manipulated by a well-known transnational information could affect the sovereignty of our country?
President Chavez signed in 2004 by Decree 3390, ordering that the public administration IT systems migrate to Free Software and Open Standards. It is a measure which, for some, may seem tedious, but whose success depends on technological independence of the country's computer systems, that we Venezuelans are not just users of computers and software sold to us from abroad, but we know how to modify, adapt them to our needs, enhance and share them with other people who also needed. So that nobody can stop our industries back again!
are many reasons why some are betting that the 3390 Act fails (there are many multimillion dollar contracts and commissions involved), and there are many strategies used to it.
Microsoft Strategy: Pretend to be "Free Software"
Microsoft, the renowned company that sells millions of copies of Windows and Office every year, generating a surplus so large that, in just two decades, created two ten men with more money in the world. Gains derived by a single man (Bill Gates) has had to deny the world the knowledge behind Windows and its derivatives, is much higher than the international reserves of Venezuela, an oil producing country with 26 million inhabitants!
Microsoft's strategy was not to attack free software, but try to change their concept to fool the gullible and make Microsoft's proprietary applications may be acquired by the State. In other words, Microsoft's strategy was similar to say, "change the definition of socialism, so that all capitalist masquerading as socialist." Similar to the sentence of a former director of CNTI, who said in an interview: "free technologies include all technologies, including free technologies and non-free" [4]
had not been strong protest by the revolutionary government officials and many members of the Free Software community, most likely this law had been adopted, with disastrous consequences for the country's sovereignty.
OpenXML: In 2007 the strategy is repeated
A year later, the software transnational returns with the same modus operandi:
Microsoft seeks a Non-Governmental Organization Fondonorma on behalf of all of Venezuela, approved as OSI standard formats for Microsoft Office 2007, cynically called "OpenXML (. docx,. xlsx,. pptx, etc., also called Office Open XML or OOXML). His intention is primarily commercial: to achieve this will require millions of individuals, companies and public and private entities to acquire the new Office 2007 to manipulate these files.
The goal again is not to cancel the free software or open standards, but "change concepts" for the unwary to believe that Microsoft's format is an open standard.
An open standard is one whose specifications can be known and used by anyone. For example, everyone knows that a traffic light is flashing red, yellow and green, each with a specific meaning. It is a standard, something that we all agreed. If you morning they decided to make traffic lights, do not have to ask anyone's permission to use the colors red, yellow and green. Nobody owns the colors, so no one can come to ask for royalties for use at a stoplight.
opposite are closed or proprietary standards: those whose internal specification remains partially or completely secret, and is required to pay royalties to use them. For example, if you want to mount a movie and put the logo "Dolby Digital", has to pay a huge amount of money on equipment and certifications, and who meet standards for a private company authorized to place the logo in its films .
The objective of Microsoft is that Fondonorma declare "open standard" closed standard, using their influence in public and private officials. In Fondonorma, many public bodies are entitled to vote, as members of academia and business. Microsoft again has influenced various public officials such as CENIT and PDVSA, among others, to vote in his favor. Another strange case is constituted by a representative of the Central University of Venezuela, who says vote on behalf of this university, but also an employee of Microsoft and defends their interests.
Microsoft OpenXML formats are NOT open standards and free: Large portions of it are closed (it is not possible how cer cone) and depend on sizes and specifications are not known. In addition, more than 300 technical errors. More information can be seen in references [1] [2] and [3]
Microsoft OpenXML formats required to purchase Microsoft's proprietary applications to use: Because of the difficulties and obstacles that Microsoft has in its pseudo-standard will be very difficult to create software that achieves fully comply with its parameters. Most people prefer to buy proprietary software from Microsoft, claiming that "those they do well," free to choose applications that can only partially implemented.
OpenXML is patented by Microsoft, this makes the possibility of free applications can open and save with confidence. Microsoft may, at any time, require royalties or threaten to sue those who make programs that use this format.
There are alternatives to OpenXML, OpenDocument itself is an open standard, approved by standards bodies like OASIS OSI. Its specifications are fully available. It is free of patents. It is built on many open standards, and a huge variety of applications that can manipulate: OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice, and even Microsoft Office using a plugin. Microsoft could use as its standard for records if so desired.
Again, our Venezuelan government, anti-imperialist, pro-socialist and anti-neoliberal, is in tremendous ideological contradiction when some of its officials decide to vote and support to Microsoft, such as monopolistic transnational neoliberalism summit, to their proprietary standards become "open" standards. Having done that, many officials feel "allowed" to buy thousands of licenses of proprietary software Microsoft Office 2007, so you can continue to open and manipulate these files in the coming years, with a high probability that data nation are not perennial.
Although some people seem a purely technical and of little interest to the popular sectors and the general population, the fact is that this is a political issue. This is not to attack Microsoft because we fall ill, because it is a foreign or transnational because it is the world's largest computer monopoly. It is that the company is trying to mislead millions of Venezuelans, technology affecting our sovereignty and our right to store the data of all Venezuelans in formats that can be handled without relying on foreign-owned products.
apparently
Final votes will be held on 2 September. If you work in a State agency, do you know the position of the Department of Informatics of his body brought before Fondonorma? If you work or study in an autonomous university, do you know what will be the delivery of the same? We demand
know.
References:
[1] http://www.jesuslara.com.ve/blog/2007/08/24/argumentos-tecnicos-en-contra-de-ooxml-i-parte/
[2] http://www.openxml.info/
[3] http://www.noooxml.org/
[4] http://lubrio.blogspot.com/2006/02/jorge -Berrizbeitia-on-the-case-java.html
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