I’m looking for a job

2013(e)ko Marchk 28 15:46 / Leave a Comment /

Hi everybody!

This is my software developer résumé:

cv-developer
CV as developer (130 KB)

This other one is another résumé from a creative point of view:

cv-designer
CV as creative (1,3 MB)

I made also a collection with my graphic design works:

portfolio
Portfolio (2,7 MB)

Finally, I recorded a videocurriculum that it is supposed to be very helpful on job searching.

Now is time to move this material to friends and acquaitances. Please, spread this news to your people. In the digital social networks too!

You can find how to contact me in the About page.

Thank you ^_^

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Posted in: Uncategorized

Creative Commons traffic light

2012(e)ko Decemberk 26 23:36 / 2 Comments /

Thanks to the comments I interchanged with Maite Goñi this last days, I knew the Creative Commons traffic light I created some years ago could be improved. Tha’s way I publish an updated version of it today:


creative commons semaforoa

Original image

The image is very similar to the first one. In the upper position, it is the restrictive copyright. Then, they came the most known Creative Commons licenses:

  • CC BY-NC-ND. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivs license.
  • CC BY-NC-SA. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
  • CC BY-NC. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.
  • CC BY-ND. Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivs license.
  • CC BY-SA. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This is the only Creative Commons license that can be called copyleft type.
  • CC BY. Creative Commons Attribution license.

Public domain

And in the bottom part, it is the CC0 dedication (Creative Commons Zero). It isn’t a license, but a dedication. There is legal differente between both, but if you aren’t an advocate it isn’t something interesting. Anyway, the Creative Commons Zero aim is to let a work in the public domain.

It’s important to clarify that public domain doesn’t mean exactly the same everywhere. In general it does, because everyone can take the work and publish it, distribute it, change it, etc., without asking for permission to anybody. But they are some differences. For example in USA, an author can put his work directly in the public domain, while in the European Union, there are “moral rights” wich are inalienable (in Spain for example an author has a right to ask for the integrity of his work). To avoid this differences, Creative Commons created CC0 dedication, wich stablish that the author renounces all his/her rights over the work, but with a note: to the extend allowable by law.

The PD option included in the previous traffic light has been removed, because it was applicable only in USA and because Creative Commons itself decided to retire it in 2010.

Color classification

I’ll finish explaining the color classification I have used. The conventional copyright license wich all us know, is very restrictive and lets do very few things with the work. That’s way I put it in the red side of the traffic light. In the yellow side, I put some of the CC licenses. These licenses aren’t so restrictive, as they let copy, modify or publish the works in some situations or under certain conditions.

But to take the works as free (like in “freedom of speech”), they can’t have too many limitations. That’s way BY-SA, BY and CC0 are in the green side of the traffic light. The frontier I use to classify a work as free or not, it’s not my invention. It’s based on the agree of people from many areas. Seen the compatibility between free software definition, free cultural work definition and open knowledge definition, it’s hardly surprising that Creative Commons itself marked some of the options it offers as appropriate for free cultural works. Those wich have the seal “APROBED FOR Free Cultural Works”, are precisely the ones that are in the green side of the traffic light.

The source file of the new image:

SVG

creativecommons-semaforoa-2.svg

Note: Thanks to Unai, from today on, the Creative Commons article of the Wikipedia in basque, shows the new version of the traffic light.

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: , , , ,

Amusing maths bideos

2012(e)ko Februaryk 12 21:26 / Leave a Comment /

Who says maths aren’t funny ;-)

Posted in: Uncategorized

Man names in basque language

2010(e)ko Junek 20 18:58 / Leave a Comment /

Two months ago I had a son and before we decided his name, I made a list. Here it is:

pdf
gizonezkoen-izenak.pdf (37 KB)

And here in OpenDocument format:

odt
gizonezkoen-izenak.odt (20 KB)

My sons child is at page 3, column 7, row 8: Julen.

More information:

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: , ,

Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

2010(e)ko Februaryk 14 1:10 / Leave a Comment /

cc0

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.

cc public domain

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):

pantaila argazkia

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.:

creative commons lizentziak

If someone wants to obtain the images showed into this article in the original SVG format, take them from here:

tar.gz
creativecommons-semaforoa.tar.gz (93 KB)

More information:

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: , , , , ,

Manifesto: “In defense of the fundamental rights on Internet”

2009(e)ko Decemberk 4 14:03 / Leave a Comment /

www pigeon

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.

More information:

Other languages: euskara, castellano

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: , , , ,