How you ask? I will answer this question later, first a little description about augeas:
Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

But, how does it recognizes all the native formats of the configuration files? It’s not black magic, well it’s almost black magic, but it need some recipes for it, and those area called lenses.

Great, but, what are those lenses? Lenses are the building blocks of the file < -> tree transformation; they combine parsing a file and building the tree (the get transformation), with turning the tree back into an (updated) file (the put transformation).

Sounds awesome, but also really hard… You know what? It’s not hard, they are just a list of regular expressions and directives in a really easy format, don’t believe me? Give a look at the official documentation on how to write them. It’s not hard, you just need to know (or learn) the syntax of those config files and the POSIX regexp syntax (man re_syntax).

Awesome i want to help! Tell me how!! Ok, i have create a wiki page with the lenses we have now and the ones we want, so you only need to give a look at it and start working on the lense you want after assigning it to yourself. Once you have it, please file a Bug against augeas with the following format:

Summary: Please add lense for $PACKAGE
Description: Augeas doesn’t support $PACKAGE configuration files.
And attach your lense to it.

Also if you feel like you want to, send it to upstream using their list (augeas-devel AT redhat DOT com), or just let me send it.

So, let’s work on this little things to have UCSA as soon as possible and make ubuntu even better!

P.D: If you write a lense also add a comment on it with your name an e-mail to have track of who wrote them like this:
(* Written by Joe Hacker <joe.hacker@isp.net> *)

Session Board:

Running session:

Also a really cool thing that on the hotel we have a kind of lobby right outside the session rooms, so also a lot of work has been done out there!

Lobby work:

< nxvl> does anyone know what happened with dad?
< nxvl> DaD*
< jdong> went off with MoM?
< icanhas> jdong: i had to refrain from that so badly.
< jdong> lol
< nxvl> heh
< nxvl> i’m blogging this

I simply LOVE ubuntu community!

• Que tipo de cifrado utilizarán para las firmas digitales
• Utilizarán algún algoritmo de cifrado desarrollado y probado o cometerán sacrilegio al usar el suyo propio
• El cifrado de documentos será mediante alguna aplicación propia de la reniec o una alternativa utilizada y libre
• Que tan fácil de romper será el cifrado
• Los “usuarios” generarán sus propias llaves privadas o simplemente les darán la llave ya generada en alguna computadora de dicha entidad con la opción que alguien pueda “sustraer” dicha llave privada
• En caso la llave privada sea robada, habrá alguna opción de cambiarla
• Si la anterior es Sí, que validez tendrán los archivos firmados anteriores
• Si la llave privada esta contenida dentro del chip del DNI, como se asegurarán que al ser robado el documento no sea utilizado por un ladrón para suplantarnos
• Si la llave privada esta contenida dentro del chip, como podré hacer uso de ella? Necesitaré una lectora de chips?
• Estarán las llaves públicas en algún lugar accesible o solo será posible verlas/obtenerlas por ciertas entidades

Como buen geek interesado en la seguridad empecé a investigar, buscar en internet, leer sobre el documento y mi respuesta fue la esperada: no hay información de NADA de esto en internet, o por lo menos no la encontré, será que lo que me temo es cierto y nadie sabe como funciona (como suele pasar en Perú), será que están confiando la seguridad en un cifrado “desconocido” por el atacante, será tan fácil de romper como hacer un simple ataque de ingeniería inversa?

En resumen: el estado quiere darnos una nueva tecnología y una nueva forma de “identificarnos”, virtualmente, pero no hay información sobre como funcionará esta, que es lo que realmente nos están dando, a que peligros nos podríamos exponer y al buscar una respuesta a estas interrogantes solo se encuentran más preguntas y dudas, pero total, a la población no le interesa, si un pequeño porcentaje tiene acceso a una computadora, y de ese pequeño porcentaje somos incluso mucho menor la proporción de ciudadanos que conocemos del tema, entonces no nos preocupemos por informarles! Pero no podemos dejar que jueguen con la seguridad de nuestra identidad, la reniec debe poner bien en claro todos los aspectos de este nuevo cambio, los legales, los de uso y los técnicos.

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Welcome everybody! I’m very very pleased to announce the first ever Ubuntu Developer Week . What this means? We’ll have one week full of action-packed IRC sessions where you can:

• learn about different packaging techniques
• find out more about different development teams
• check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community
• participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers
• and much much more…

I’m absolutely excited to have such a diverse programme and thrilled we have so many excellent speakers in the first ever Ubuntu Developer Week. All your favourite Ubuntu developers will be there who will introduce you to lots of parts of Ubuntu development including packaging, virtualisation, desktop application testing, development processes, collaboration techniques and lots lots more. This is the perfect time to get started, get up and running and in touch with future team members.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and see the timetable and then see how to attend. I look forward to seeing you all there at Ubuntu Open Week. Oh, and lets spread the word!

The Sessions:

• Patching packages – Martin Pitt will explain the different techniques of patching packages. His session will help you get started with UbuntuDevelopment as it’s a good entry point to improving the software we use every day.
• Launchpad PPAs – Launchpad Hackers Celso Providelo and Matthew Revell will introduce you to a great feature of Launchpad: Personal Package Archives. Building packages for testing and preview reasons made easy.
• Packaging 101 – Daniel Holbach will talk you through the most important properties of Ubuntu and Debian packaging.
• MOTU School – Working with Debian – We’ll have James Westby around, who is very interested in collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. His session will showcase tools, initiatives and processes to make this happen.
• Introduction to the ServerTeam – Interested in servers and services in the Ubuntu landscape? Matthias Gug introduces you to the ServerTeam.
• MOTU Processes – Interested in becoming a MOTU? Daniel Holbach will explain the MOTU processes: how to get involved and how to get things done.
• Virtualisation – Virtualisation is definitely one of the hottest topics at the moment. Virtualisation Specialist Søren Hansen will talk you through the state of things and answer all your questions.
• Kubuntu – For those of you interested in development of the big K, we’ll have the Kubuntu developers around.
• Ubuntu Derivatives Team – We have new Derivatives coming up almost every day. The Derivative Team aims to make collaboration seamless and help derivatives to get things done.
• Debdiffs and how to get them submitted – Daniel Holbach will showcase one of the most important entry points to get involved: how to produce good patches and explain how to get them submitted for inclusion.
• First steps on contributing (MOTU/TODO & MOTU/TODO/Bugs) – MOTU contributor Nicolas Valcárcel will talk about his experiences and give you first-hand hints how to get started.
• Desktop Packaging Session – Mastermind of the french Desktop mafia Sébastien Bacher will take you on a tour through Desktop Packaging: your entry point to the Desktop Team
• SRU/Security updates – Two of our MOTUs, William Grant and Luca Falavigna, experienced in doing security and stable release updates will talk about exactly that.
• Firefox 3 Extension Packaging – We’ll have Mozilla hacker Alexander Sack around, who will talk you through packaging of Firefox 3 Extensions.
• Writing Scripts For Automated Desktop Testing – QA developer Lars Wirzenius spent quite some time thinking about testing of applications and will take you on a tour through testing Desktop applications.
• Bughelper – making bug work easier – Bugmaster Brian Murray and bughelper hacker Markus Korn are the de-facto maintainers of python-launchpad-bugs and bughelper. Numerous tools make use of the interface and make working with bugs much much easier.
• BugTriage – Pedro Villavicencio has an incredible record of triaged bugs and even managed to give Sébastien Bacher a run for his money. He’ll get you started doing bug triage which is one of the most important points of development.
• MOTU Q&A session – This session has become an institution and happens every Friday at 13:00 UTC. For once we’ll move this to a later time and invite you all to be there. Prepare your questions and let’s get started together.
• Library Packaging – Long-time MOTU Stefan Potyra will talk about the bread and butter of almost all packages: libraries and how to package them right.