Two months ago I had a son and before we decided his name, I made a list. Here it is:
gizonezkoen-izenak.pdf (37 KB)
And here in OpenDocument format:
gizonezkoen-izenak.odt (20 KB)
My sons child is at page 3, column 7, row 8: Julen.
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Creative Commons has published a new license/certificate called CC0. More than one will ask himself why they publish another license if they are already a lot. The key is that this new certificate fills an important hole in the wordwide legislation that recognizes (and protects) the public domain, but don’t give to the author the option to release their works directly in the public domain. For that, an amount of years stablished by each legislation must be gone by and finally the works arrive to the public domain.
USA’s legislation allows the authors to release their works directly in the public domain and that’s why Creative Commons created the CC PD certificate. But in Europe (including France and Spain), this option is not in the provision of the legislations, so the authors can’t free their works. 70 years since the death of the author must be hold on.
Faced with this situation, I have decided to replace the generic public domain notice in the footer of this web site to the next new one: “All the contents of this website, unless it is indicated other thing, are given to the public domain to the extend allowable by law.”
The link references the Creative Commons’ CC0 certificate (it isn’t a license, but a certificate as the public domain legal notice):
As you can see, this text says: “The person who associated a work with this document has dedicated the work to the Commons by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.”
This means that the author relinquish all the rights over the work, and if the law doesn’t allow to give up all them, the author relinquish all the rights allowed by the law.
To finish this article, here it is updated the image that shows all the options that Creative Commons offers, whether they are free (green) or not, whether they are copyleft or not, etc.:
If someone wants to obtain the images showed into this article in the original SVG format, take them from here:
creativecommons-semaforoa.tar.gz (93 KB)
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Original image: Eneko (CC BY-SA 2.1)
A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression, information and access to culture on the Internet. They also declare that:
1.- Copyright should not be placed above citizens’ fundamental rights to privacy, security, presumption of innocence, effective judicial protection and freedom of expression.
2.- Suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain an exclusive competence of judges. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Spanish Constitution, places in the hands of the executive the power to keep Spanish citizens from accessing certain websites.
3.- The proposed laws would create legal uncertainty across Spanish IT companies, damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering the creation of startups, introducing barriers to competition and slowing down its international projection.
4.- The proposed laws threaten creativity and hinder cultural development. The Internet and new technologies have democratized the creation and publication of all types of content, which no longer depends on an old small industry but on multiple and different sources.
5.- Authors, like all workers, are entitled to live out of their creative ideas, business models and activities linked to their creations. Trying to hold an obsolete industry with legislative changes is neither fair nor realistic. If their business model was based on controlling copies of any creation and this is not possible any more on the Internet, they should look for a new business model.
6.- We believe that cultural industries need modern, effective, credible and affordable alternatives to survive. They also need to adapt to new social practices.
7.- The Internet should be free and not have any interference from groups that seek to perpetuate obsolete business models and stop the free flow of human knowledge.
8.- We ask the Government to guarantee net neutrality in Spain, as it will act as a framework in which a sustainable economy may develop.
9.- We propose a real reform of intellectual property rights in order to ensure a society of knowledge, promote the public domain and limit abuses from copyright organizations.
10.- In a democracy, laws and their amendments should only be adopted after a timely public debate and consultation with all involved parties. Legislative changes affecting fundamental rights can only be made in a Constitutional law.
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During last years, I have prepared several image proposals for logos, banners, stickers, images for T-shirts and similar purposes. The aim of all those designs was to help to choose an image on events and projects where I collaborated. I designed some of this proposals in the SVG open format using a free program called Inkscape. This kind of images have the special property that they don’t loose quality when you scale them. That’s why I thought it was worth to put this files accessible to everyone.
In this first image, you can see how to simulate a hand-made line thought Bézier curves:
In the next image, you can see how it is possible to make a text to follow the path of a line you have previously drawn:
The next image contains symbols that you can use to create other images. I am talking about copyleft symbol, glider symbol and the recycling symbol:
I created the next image for the RFID news section of Barrapunto.com. Overlapping several rectangles with rounded borders I achieved this logo in just a moment:
Finally, I also have found the next image in my hard disc. This time, I wrote the at symbol and then I turned it a vectorial object. This way I could modify and give it the exact appearance I was looking for. By the other side, the stars I used to represent the fire of the fuse can be created using objects with so many edges as we want. On this kind of objects you can modify parameters like rotation angle, outer radius, inner radius and other ones. It is difficult to create this kind of shapes unless you are using vectorial tools, so you have to take this into account when you design images. Here is the shabby image I obtained with so powerful tools 
Warning: some day I have to compare some of the elements of this images with the Wikipedia Commons project and check if I can contribute somehow. Of course, any suggestion is absolutely welcome.
Other languages: euskara, castellano
It is just celebrated this year’s Hackmeeting in Gernika and my contribution has been a lecture in spanish about the magic of numbers. Conbining humour and odd facts related to the number theory, I tried to make a pleasant lecture although the dry subject it can be math. As some of the public told me later, I achieved the objective so I am glad with the result.
To tell the truth, I didn’t have enought time to prepare all the contents that I would like to talk about, but if I ever repeat this lecture I will have time to improve the contents.
Here is the presentation I prepared:
20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.pdf (5 MB)
20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.odp (7,5 MB)
I am not sure if the lecture was saved by video, but the audio was. If that material becomes accessible later, I will advise in this article.
Update (2008/02/11): At last, I got the audio of the Hackmeeting’s speech, so now I will publish it. By the way, you can download or hear on-line other nodes of Hackelarre.
20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.ogg (44 MB)
20071014LaMagiaDeLosNumeros.mp3 (70 MB)
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