List- o’s project born as a new implementation of the Tradauto project. A project developt by  Funredes (http://funredes.org). The main idea is offer a technological tool to translate text and messages to several languajes. All the messages are traveling across mailing lists.

List-o project is designed and developed by Colnodo  (http://colnodo.apc.org) to Funredes with the support of l’Institut de la Francophonie numérique, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

Have been 3 months of hard work. A lot of interesting ideas and topics like internationalization and mail systems.

So, I invite you to know about  LIST-O. Any idea, suggestion or anything is welcome.

4am and I’m wake up. I not used to sleep with condittion air or cold air systems. So let’s talk about this trip and the things that i’ve done. So right know i’m in Barrancabermeja. Yesterday the temperature was on 32 ºC. Today seems is going to be hotest than today but when this happends I going to be in my beloved Bogota city.

I came to Barrancabermeja to give a talk about open soure software on the first Encuentro Regional de Territorios digitales del Magdalena Medio. So the talk takes 2 hours and was really amazing to talk to the people about this topic with more experience than other thing. At the end of the talk all the paople received a CD with OpenApps and gone with the idea to try Open Source software at house, school and work.

After the congress end time to tourism and see:

• Eat salpicón with ice cream
• See a perforation on a residential zone looking for oil.
• Magdalena’s river strenght moving faster to the sea.
• Kola Hipinto
• The hard smell of the oil at Ecopetrol refinery’s zone
• A really amazing heat
• Search for air condittioning places.

And some photos

Let’s go to Barrancabermeja. I’m goingt to present a tutorial about OpenSource software.

Spam is a plague, everybody knows it. But everybody doesn’t know how to fight against it when your mail system servers are attacked. So I’m going to talk about this stuffs and give some advices to avoid spam in your servers and networks.

So, today ww are going to se how to identify if your IP address is catalogued as spam generator or is listed on black lists. I’ve to fight against this in 4 times and it’s a really hard thing.

¿My IP address is blacklisted?

We use to start to suspect about this when our mails  are bounced o get messages answeers like “Rejected”, “Mail delivery failure” or the mails we send to other people arrive directly to bulk folder. So, we have to check the blacklist.  There are a lot of sites and tools to do that, I suggest this site: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

When you insert your public IP address or the IP of the connection where are you connected, this service is going to check in several black list for a  register or something that list the IP given as IP on black lists. If we get all in green where clean. But when we get one or more registers in red, the hard work starts. It means that IP address is blacklisted, this will affect our mail service deliver (Look at this for an example of black listed IP address  http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a190.27.231.130). It’s necesary to enter to the blacklist site and ask for a removal. You can fill a form, you can send a mail and the cleaning process will take from 2-48 hours. But there are some others services that take more time or ask for some money to clean your IP or do it express. Always check for a form, fill it and wait for a faster answeer.

Here an important thing. I have identify some other way that your mails can be bounced or banned thanks to black list. When you use Pop3 or Pop3s and SMTP service to send mails (using a mail client like Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution, etc) according to the server configuration, the headers of the send mail use the IP address where are you connected, so if this is blacklisted this can be a reason why your mails aren’t delivered. So, the suggestion is search our home or work IP address and for example check if this is clean.

¿Why happend this?

• The mail server it’s accepting conections using not secure ports or there aren’t security controls with the outcoming mails.
• There is one or more PC in our network inside a Botnet and it’s being used to generate and send spam.
• Malware inside the PC and servers and it’s used to send spam and we have no idea about it.
• Irresponsible use of email marketing software like ccmail, sendblaster and other software to send mail.

Well, the next post is going to be about how to avoid Hotmail and Yahoo ban.

Campus Party 2010 was different according to previously versions. The event each time goes more and more commercial and losses the concept of Party, but, all wasn’t in my case, so bye Campus Party 2010 and I hope next year event goes much better.

this was a geek night, and was also the night wish give sense and hapiness to this week. Finally with Ruri Himura’s help my old Iphone 2G was installed with Android Operative System. So thanks also to this  guide, this are some facts of the goal:

Then, time to try another operative system: Meego, maybe this could be the operative system for the N900 in some months. So, what a wonderfull night

I want to share the presentation used with Ruri Himura on Campus Party

Change of plans. Welcome to Campus Party Bogotá 2010.

New acomodations, first time of security & networking area. A lot of comfortable chairs and encounter with several friends, a lot of people I won’t see since last year and more. Tha party just start, so, make yourself confortable and enjoy the view.

Be on Campus Party is a great experience, but the experience goes beyond the high speed internet channel or play games for several hours. This is my third year and I want to share some advices and things to sugest to you, to do on Campus Party and have a real party. This experience have been shared with Ruri Himura, my dear girl.

You can do a lot of things, you’re not alone, you can share with a lot of people, just break the geek and start to have fun. So, here some activities to do:

• Go to the presentations and tutorials, this could be very useful to you to increase your technology knowledge and have more tools and ideas to apply on your work.
• Do hacklabs, technical nights. This is te time to do all the things you have ever wanted but you can’t because there is always a excuse. Take ventage of the technological fever and do real cool stuff and activities. Don’t be hours and hours the same things yo do at home every night, really have fun.
• Be a Blogger, take photos, videos, meet people, interview people, and more.
• Share time and activities with people of other areas, like developers, gamers, astronomy, graphical designers. That’s the way you can stablish contacts and of course new friendship
• Participate in contest and tournaments, maybe some prize could be yours
• The party it’s made by yourself, so, don’t be bored and have fun

¿What I planned to do?

• Hack my old iphone and install Android on it
• Setup a Wargame about Operative systems and apps with some friends
• Give with Ruri Himura a great conference about information security and IT management.
• share with friends , bloggers, gamers, developers and security people activities, ideas and more.
• Release Software Freedom Day Bogotá 2010 with streaming for outside
• Share and get certification and study resources
• And of course, have fun

¿Y tu que vas a hacer?