The crisis of the Spanish-speaking Linuxphere

I will not say anything that has not been said by PabloBy sefsinalasBy GabrielBy dibilly, nor by the peeled button. The Spanish-speaking linuxphere is in crisis.

First it was the blog Use Linux who began to reflect on the end of various blogs such as Planet Ubuntu, ubuntips y linux-zone, in addition to Picajoso's departure from Very linux. Linux blogs in Spanish are the first references in terms of asking for help, but the people behind also have their problems. Lack of time, lack of interest, lack of maintenance, etc. kuraisama says that if one day the editors of ALSW left this project, it would be as if they were failing an entire community at a time when GNU / Linux and free and open source software are gaining importance and notoriety and more this year , but to tell the truth there was never a good time to retire if it is a lack of news (the thing never stands still). Therefore, there are other reasons that lead to the death of a blog. The Gabuntu blog explains them better:

1) Time: If you create a blog, it is because you have the necessary time or take time out of other tasks to dedicate to this facet. The problem arises when responsibilities come in life that force you to take the time you used on the blog for more important things such as family, work, etc.
2) Demotivation: A few years ago the only way to thank an author for an article was through comments. TO Desdelinux that also happens to him (although visits Also helps).
3) Social Media: Now readers prefer to read the information through social networks reducing the flow of visits to blogs and therefore if you depend on ads to sustain the blog, the time comes where you have to close.
4) Contents: I'm not going to mention anything here because I disagree ENOUGH with what you said. He spoke of the lack of originality, of copying to other blogs, but most importantly. I quote: "I know that there is a great majority of Linux users who do not know English and appreciate someone translating the content into Spanish, but at this time we already have automatic translators like Google Translate which makes this useless."

GOOGLE TRANSLATE ???????????? STOP FUCKING !!!!!!!

5) Dibilly adds one more reason: the controversies of Secure Boot and Ubuntu. When Richard Stallman y Linus Torvalds loose their tongues, bloggers feel truncated with ideas.

Pablo ends with some morals:
1) Divide and lose: Today it is very easy to create a blog as it is difficult to maintain it. If you are thinking of opening a blog in Spanish about Linux and free software, seriously think about whether you will be able to maintain it.
2) All for one is better than one for all: A blog is more likely to disappear the more it tends to be a one-person project. Blogs with several regular editors, permanent writers, co-administrators, etc. survive more. DesdeLinux is an example, despite having made a cleaning recently
3) Time is money and so is hosting: No need to explain.

And I leave you with this question: What will be most beneficial? Translate articles to Spanish (Google Translate is not worth it), or that readers learn English? That I leave for you to reason.


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  1.   kondur05 said

    Hey I think that desde linux It is proof that a blog can progress with the help of everyone

  2.   Tammuz said

    You have to learn English, this in computer science as in daily life is a great help, and incidentally it would help a lot not to belittle each other for using this or that distro, you have to unite and rejoice for each triumph of Linux

    1.    proper said

      +1
      There is in the computer world English is a necessity.
      Regarding the use of distros I also agree and DesdeLinux It is a fairly tolerant community in that sense, in my opinion 🙂

      regards

      1.    st0rmt4il said

        Good proper, an off-topic question.

        Why haven't you made the leap to Fedora 18? some impressions about it ?.

        As I read on the internet Alan Cox does not like this new release very much, perhaps because of its new installer, etc.

        What do you say about it ..?

        PS: Excuse this question outside the topic raised.
        Thank you!

    2.    msx said

      +1

      Do you have the ability to learn to administer a complex system like GNU + Linux but not to learn English? That is called mental laziness. Kill yourself

    3.    Darko said

      I agree with you on the language but anyway it is good to have translations because sometimes reading in a language that is not yours is very tedious (it is laziness, I know). We must also think of those who do not have the opportunity to learn English. Imagine, there are some who don't even know how to speak Spanish well, what are they going to speak English? (I laugh out loud). Speaking a little more seriously, I have gotten a lot of tutorials and information in Spanish that sometimes is not in English or is very summarized. On that other hand, I think they should also follow the blogs in Spanish. The Spanish speaking Linux community is VERY large.

      I very much agree with that not to put someone down for using the X or Y distro. It sucks to have to read 25,000 articles or comments from people who have nothing better to do than fight over which distribution is better when most have almost the same. Anyways, PLOS HUAN for your comment (for those who use Google Translate).

  3.   cronos said

    Also, Linux is everyone's job, not just some. You have to learn, share and be grateful, that is the philosophy.

  4.   dement said

    I agree in everything with tammuz
    if we all join together and not be creating a blog to be closed in 2 weeks. Let's all make an effort to learn English as we learn about Linux

  5.   pavloco said

    I agree that the most important thing is to cooperate with the community. I myself have written a couple of articles for desdelinux. I think if you can't cooperate cheaply $$$, there are other ways to bring a blog to life.
    By the way, I don't agree that Muylinux is dying (as mentioned in one of the articles mentioned). Muylinux is a non-community blog, therefore it depends on other factors that are very different from the rest of the blogs, you have to study their situation in a different way.

  6.   federico said

    The Spanish-speaking Linux community is very atomized in my opinion, we must unite efforts in projects that are smaller in quantity and higher in quality (meaning fewer blogs but more complete). Desde linux As kondur05 says, it is an example of how you can put together a complete and contributing project to the Linux community.

  7.   Javier said

    If to stay informed, get rid of my doubts by asking those who know more and contribute what one may know to others, for all that you have to learn to read and write in English, then it must be time to throw the pc in the trash I dedicated myself to raising pigs.
    I don't close myself to cultivating more or anything like that, I just refuse to have to speak another language when we have a dictionary as or richer than any other in the world.
    I apologize if I hurt feelings, but this is GNU Linux, freedom, respect and wanting to improve oneself, yes, without "languages" other than one's own.
    PS: to do, write or whatever, a blog, nor do I speak, because I have not created any, I just read and think.

    1.    Darko said

      We certainly have a much richer dictionary than Americanized English. If we go to England is another story, but the easiest thing to find is the American with a vulgar language, full of abbreviations (vagrancy) and others that I do not want to continue mentioning because it would give me cerebral diarrhea.

      Long live SPANISH!

  8.   fraternal said

    Well no, things almost never last forever. Says a song. The truth is that there are many factors to be leaving things. I myself have fought against that. But rather than getting overwhelmed with posting newsworthy and idle content, I am busy posting more professional and instructional content. It requires less time, although it does require more effort because you have to do the practices to see if they work before publishing.

    The times have their characteristics. They pass, and those who give it their characteristics pass with them. They leave their legacy, undeniable. They did their job.

    The future belongs to others.

  9.   reduced said

    I personally believe that the most important thing to open a blog is that one really likes to communicate, be it ideas, opinions, tips, news, etc ... without that element it is very difficult to maintain a blog for long because you will always see obstacles and never progress.

    I don't really see a "crisis" in the Spanish blogsphere in terms of linux, on the contrary I see that there are many enthusiasts starting projects like these and perhaps because of that, these popular blogs feel like they are in a tailspin and look for excuses where there are none .

    I think the intention of these blogs is to communicate, regardless of whether it is going to bring them economic benefits or not because the purpose is not that, or at least the idea of ​​the blog is not that. We are always going to run into time problems and sometimes only one article is published or days may go by without being updated but if you offer good content the visits will not go away, but on the contrary they will be pending of a publication.

    Regarding translations, whether you like it or not that is inevitable, the sources that give the news or announcements are generally in English, the question is that one adds or complements with their own content and not simply dedicate themselves to copying what the google translate translate, there is the detail.

    If it is about maintaining a blog, then effectively you need income to pay for accommodation, domain, etc., but this is not an obstacle if you really like to communicate because that becomes a challenge. Finally, almost all blogs are started in a one-person way, collaborators are added as the comments grow, those who give quality and serious comments are evaluated and the proposal is made to them, you cannot get right at first to open a public contest and put people in like that, in fact I have never agreed with the model that some blogs use (and in muylinux they coincidentally made a very similar method to the one I describe) of making public contests.

    Greetings from http://libuntu.wordpress.com 😉

  10.   ChristianBPA said

    I agree on several things with the article, although sometimes it is uncomfortable to collaborate. Almost everything that one could say and everyone knows or abounds in information about it. I think that in my case I better dedicate myself first to learn more to learn more.

  11.   satan AG said

    You took the ticket out of my hand jjajajjaja.
    I was going to make an entry precisely with the opinion. I summarize my opinion like this:

    All the reasons why some of us stopped collaborating are valid. I have collaborated a few times and believe me when I tell you that I enter the blog every day, but you must also have realized that I do not comment, why? - Because I just don't have time.

    Time, money, dedication, family, work; all the reasons are valid and we have all found the problem or at least its causes, but what is the solution? Honestly, blogs sometimes seem excessive to me, don't get me wrong, I mean that there are many, some with almost no maintenance and others with regular, why not unify? Why not think of only 2 blogs one for the .Deb and the other for the .rpm, for example? I mean, we can all collaborate and give our opinions and so I think there would be more and better ways of working. Let's think for a moment, easier to maintain, easier to care for, and with more readers.
    I say it because this happens to me, I want to collaborate but I do not have time to do it regularly, but in a more community blog (like this one, for example) if I post 1 time a week, you would not notice a gap since there will be others who do the same. itself and is no longer an entry but 5 or 6.
    I think the way is the unification or at least a semi-unification of content. Another thing, there are people who complain that Tweaks are almost never used, is that we have to admit that, each time GNU / LINUX is more stable and its software gives almost no problems, practically everything works well, it was not like 8 years ago or less where installing one thing was almost breaking the system.
    Excuse me long.

    1.    reduced said

      I do not agree much in what you say, I do not see feasible that content be grouped in 2 large blogs, that will undoubtedly lead to problems and big ones, many of the collaborators will not coincide on various points such as design, content, website manager ... and in terms of the Visits would be even worse, from the typical trolls, through the one that criticizes the editor or collaborator until reaching personal offenses in short ... it is much better that there is diversity of blogs, some are dedicated to putting development issues, others news, others of tips and so on ...

      With the tweaks, although GNU / Linux is very stable, there are users who maybe install X application easier than as some editor or collaborator put it, there will be things that some think are not worth publishing but there will be others yes ... anyway, it's the good thing about having diversification and in fact, it's similar to asking for distros to be unified ... everyone has their idea, the important thing is that they really like it and that when they encounter an obstacle, it is not a cause / motive for leaving the project and in the case of blogs, that one really likes communication.

      Greetings from http://libuntu.wordpress.com

  12.   eco-slacker said

    An important thing that I think we are forgetting ... for each distro there are Wikis and I believe that for most of the distributions it is the best source of information. If it is about collaborating seriously, then what better way to do it than translating something from a wiki or whatever. So I believe that the "serious" information of a distro will never be lacking as long as there is a wiki.
    On the other hand, if what you want is to put originality in a writing and some other funny phrase and without so much formality because a blog is our best option, it is more fun and closer to what a user is looking for, in my opinion. The user seeks to ask, comment and feel part of a community, so things must be done in community.
    I would say (as I said in some other place) as a proposal, that those of us who have a blog should make the invitation to readers external, through an advertisement that looks big or something, so that they can publish their articles on our blog, whether they send it by email or assigning a user, etc. This way we would avoid short-lived blogs.
    And as for translating… we are talking about blogs in Spanish, so I think it's a good idea as long as the reference is put in the original language for those who know it. It seems like a good idea to me because everyone writes in their own style, with their opinion and from their point of view and one can always learn from the opinions of others, which is lost with an automatic translator. And now for those who do not like to read opinions, then to learn English.

    Greetings.

  13.   caesasol said

    These blogs were the main reason why a year ago I started using Linux, being more specific was this blog and omgubuntu. I know that giving donations is a good way to maintain these blogs, but the problem is how much and how many would donate. In case of being able to foreclose on them, I would gladly give $ 500 MXN every two months, but even if I have a bank account (which I don't have either) I could only give 200 every six months, and that's because thanks to this blog I learned so much, and not just linux. Now I know that there is a blockade in my country for Cuban sites, I know what social implications linux has outside the computer and it also makes my inbox not so lonely XD

  14.   rafagcg said

    Knowing English is good for everything. On the internet there is a whole world in English.
    But imposing it to know linux seems like a mistake to me.
    To use Linux, learn English, learn to compile, use the console ... damn well we're not geeks ...

  15.   Yoyo Fernnandez said

    If you're going to call me "bare button" at least write it well ... button has an accent ¬_¬

    And with regard to this issue, I have already started the blogging operation that I have called "BloGoCriva" http://deblinux.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/operacion-bloguera-blogocriva-en-marcha-sumate-si-eres-bloguero-linuxero/

    I leave it there and whoever wants to join.

  16.   Miguel said

    google translate translates as garlic

  17.   Miguel said

    Likewise, I have seen some blogs (not this one obviously) where users fight each other over which desktop is better or which distro they use, I find that very absurd, and so they don't want to use linux.

  18.   Fernando Monroy said

    "The crisis of the Spanish-speaking Linuxfera" ... that some Blogs close and other people decide "no longer publish" is not a crisis.

    If there are such good Blogs as: Linux Hispano, Desde Linux, DebLinux, The gaze of the replicant... What crisis are they talking about?

    I thank the Bloggers who are behind the aforementioned because THEM THERE IS NO CRISIS.

  19.   RAW-Basic said

    Setbacks, cancellations, registrations and all kinds of complications occur in all the blogs and / or forums that have and have been ...

    Many decline because they feel that they contribute little or that nobody visits them .. ..and others who are already prosperous .. they think they no longer have anything to talk about, or they got bored .. or they stopped having time ..

    I think this blog in particular..is the perfect example of how a blog should be .. ..and I am supported by the continuous improvements .. and the number of visits that are increasing in numbers ..

    As for English, it is indisputable that it is the universal language, we can say that our language is richer, and everything we want .. ..but someone from Russia, China, France, or wherever .. ..if you want to comment something to everyone .. always choose English .. ..and if we want to participate in that comment, argue it or simply understand and share it .. we have to learn to do it ..

    I hope that this blog continues with the same ideology and that the posts of real interest remain .. and not just news that we already read in another of the Hispanic blogs .. ..what everyone thinks .. okay .. ..and here it shows that they listen to us (read) .. let's take advantage of this space that belongs to everyone .. and make it grow .. ..and that crisis will not affect us .. 😉

  20.   Killer_Queen said

    Would someone be so kind to recommend some good blogs in English about our beloved world of GNU / Linux ??? The truth is that it would be very good for me to read in English to improve my level and what better way than to do it on a subject in which I am interested. Regards.

    1.    diazepam said

      trololo

      nah, here are a couple of news sites
      http://www.zdnet.com/topic-linux/
      http://www.muktware.com/

      if you're looking for tutorial blogs, better luck with the forums.

      1.    Killer_Queen said

        Thanks for the links, diazepan. Let's see if I improve my English a little.
        P.S. In case anyone is interested, there are the three Linux blogs in Spanish that I usually visit. Regards.
        _ https://blog.desdelinux.net/ : oP
        _ http://unbrutocondebian.blogspot.com.es/
        _ http://www.muylinux.com/

        1.    diazepam said

          I know the first one.

  21.   elav said

    I honestly do not understand what the crisis is due to. It is true that in recent times the GNU / Linux blogs are not being noticed as they used to, but has anyone ever thought that perhaps the cause is not what everyone mentioned? ?

    I give you a simple example. I started my first blog to have a kind of online Meme, a place where I could find the things that I was learning every day from anywhere, and of course, share them with everyone who wanted.

    There comes a time when I don't have to post for the simple fact that I learn more every day, and what seemed new to me at first is no longer so. But all users who arrive new and search a little, will surely find what I have written, myself or any other blogger.

    The point is, maybe there are fewer blogs or less content because we know much more ... 😛

    1.    Hyuuga_Neji said

      in a certain part I agree with you ... but also the rise of social networks is ending with portals, blgos and many other structures that used to be used before and more and more people think things like «a blog so that if I have a group quite active in X social network »

  22.   dhunter said

    The crisis in my opinion is not thinking big, not seeing the big picture.

    Knowing English is essential, it allows you to integrate into the world community, I spend most of my time online on reddit, github, stackoverflow, I have participated in the development lists of swl projects, and let me tell you that it is not as many imagine, They do not treat you badly for not being a born English speaker, they even forgive you for some grammar mistakes that your emails may have.

    But the knowledge that is acquired is something that has no comparison, it is not the same to ask in desdelinux a question about "virtualbox in debian" to have the same official maintainer of the package respond to you on the mailing list.

    With this I do not underestimate the work of Spanish-speaking blogs, but rather I suggest a change of mentality, the blog in Spanish is to share with the community but we cannot leave it all the burden, that is, to hope that a few bloggers (in relation to the size of community) maintain a range of distros and programs. We have to be more daring and interact with the rest of the world, get out of the box, think big.

    1.    RAW-Basic said

      +1

      Agree on everything ..

    2.    charlie brown said

      +1

  23.   charlie brown said

    From my point of view, with blogs (on GNU / Linux or any other topic) the same thing happens with the rest of the “new” ideas, trends or fashions: at the beginning hundreds are added but over time a process takes place We could call it "natural selection" which only the strongest survive or those who best adapt to changes.

    It is very true that the rise of social networks has led to the closure of many personal projects, which in my opinion is an example of the trend these days of "sharing" virtual (or real) daily life. Personally, I believe that this is precisely the key to the success of DesdeLinux, since from its beginnings it has been presented as a collaborative and inclusive project, which has allowed people to join over time, each of them with something to contribute, who may find it difficult to start and maintain a project personal, but they come to feel this collective project as their own, something we must thank its creators, elav and KZKG^Gaara, who from the beginning assumed this particular focus and knew how to transmit it to everyone.

    As for the language issue, I am one of those who firmly believe that knowing English is essential (even for raising pigs), but I am not going to do evangelizing work on this issue. Now, about translations; It is true that Google Translate is a useful translation tool that is constantly improving, BUT it is not the same as a translator, a true translation will continue to require a person behind the keyboard, with knowledge and culture to be able to transmit the letter and the spirit of the text in question, a very difficult thing, by the way, and it takes time, like everything else.

    Anyway, what DesdeLinux Whether it remains what it is today, a reference site on GNU/Linux and grows more every day as a community depends on all of us, on the contribution of the grain of sand that we are able to do, so that the success achieved will be felt as our own. . Thank you all and sorry for the mess...

  24.   ferthedems said

    Hello!

    I am also a blogger-linuxero (although relatively, since I have been doing it for a short time) and the truth is that everything that is discussed in this article is more or less close to me. Maintaining a website and even raising it in bad times is complicated, especially since the only compensation that can be received in this type of project is some sporadic donation or the gratitude of the people.

    It is also true that many of us who publish do so as part of a process in which blogs do not end up abandoning their concept of "logbook", and what we share is usually (mostly) news but above all experiences or knowledge that we are acquiring. It is a logical step that over time, the authors acquire a lot of experience and learn less and less new things or even lose some of the curiosity they had at the beginning, which ends up leaving them without much new to tell.

    I have always thought that something essential is, in addition to contributing material or money, to do it with ideas, in the sense of giving authors some reason to write, discovering new things for them to investigate, want to publish about them and continue to be interested in what they do, so that their blog does not become an obligation. And maybe that's one of the best ways to contribute, at least in my opinion.

    Greetings!

  25.   msx said

    Che, Google Translate is doing really well, it is brilliant that an engine can translate with the level of quality that it does and on the fly texts from one language to another, not to mention that the English-Spanish translation is really very, very good.

    The problem with articles that contain text translated in this way is that the LAZY AND LAZY who publish such articles do not take 2 minutes to arrange them and make them grammatically correct, so it is often scary to read articles translated automatically. Google Translate is not the problem but the mediocre one that is left only with what a machine spat out.

    On the other hand, although the redundancy of information is good because it helps to always find the information one is looking for on the net, of course, the welcome articles are those that include original material.

    Bad articles are those in which upstarts or people with a notorious lack of analytical skills (and decomposing neurons) write "opinion pieces" without knowing what the hell they are talking about, just because they can and because they consider it their right to express their opinions. imbecilities that occur to them
    Those articles are the dirtiest and contribute to the pollution of the net.

  26.   Windousian said

    The ideal would be to create a Hispanic Linux planet where the entries of the different blogs in Spanish about GNU / Linux will be published.

    1.    diazepam said

      linux planet exists. the problem is that this blog is not only Cuban but international.

      1.    Windousian said

        There is "Planet Linux" but divided by country if I remember correctly. The key is that one appears 100% in Spanish with "international" blogs.

      2.    Windousian said

        I've looked at it over the top and it has a lot of room for improvement. Entries should be divided by category and not by country. In addition, many blogs are missing (if they had the support of the most viewed it would be something else).

        1.    ferthedems said

          It can also be a matter of contacting the creators and seeing what they have in mind, as it may not be too difficult for them to include a global view option and a filter that uses categories or tags. But yes, a Linux news aggregator would be very good, in the style of barrapunto, but with more content and using feeds.

  27.   Ferran said

    I am not a developer of anything, nor am I a computer scientist, nor did I study anything related to web content, which now left by reading blogs in English, that is inevitable, as in any prefession you must be updated, that allowed me to its time to install Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse Slackware, and now Fedora, as I already mentioned it is inevitable if you do not want to stay behind, in this sense, without becoming competitive, how could one participate without having read articles in another language, the google translator does not It works because you translate from English according to the context. Cheers

  28.   altobelli said

    My opinion as a user (beginner, not a comforter) of a Gnu / linux (Debian) OS
    I'm interested in everything about the linuxphere that teaches me how to get the most out of computing, the time of testing one and the other distro and polishing my graphical interface is over. Post on another topic or that does not promote the use of free software I do not read. I am on the side of free software, of the GNU philosophy and I want to meet people here in Cali, Colombia, who want to support fsf.org, its campaigns. I am very grateful for the work of those who have helped me with their posts to get ahead in this world of using Gnu / Linux as an operating system for my computing. I want blogs so that those of us who support free software can keep in touch and expand our capacities to take advantage of computing for ourselves and for the community. Regarding the issue of contributions, it would be good if there were people willing to sponsor those who want to help and have not yet found how to do it.

  29.   Arturo Molina said

    I understand what they say, all of us on our side learned that sometimes it is better to read articles in English, since we study it in school or courses, but we are not the majority. I say that it would be valid to translate some parts, at least the most basic ones, such as those for beginners to gain more followers. Users who want to go deeper, I do not doubt that the language is a barrier.
    This itself was one of the main reasons why I did not object to my dismissal from the Lubuntu Communications Team. They want to continue creating and updating documentation in English. And do not spend time in other languages.

  30.   Darko said

    To react officially and not just comment on other comments, I must say that I do not prefer blogging in English. Why do I prefer them in Spanish?

    1. Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world.
    2. I am not interested in connecting to a language that is not my official language.
    3. When English is not your official language it is tedious to read.
    4. In my case, I have not got as much information about Linux in English as I have gotten in blogs that are in Spanish. The tutorials are much better explained and there is A LOT more information in Spanish about Linux than we think.
    5. My language is better.

    Ironically, everything I use (phone, PC, etc.) is set to English because I get lost with systems that are set to Spanish.

    If they tell me that there is more information in English (study books and that type of information more academic than anything) I can accept it, but since we are talking about blogs, unfortunately I have to say that there are many blogs equal to or better than the blogs that are in English but Spanish speaking. Don't give up, fuck!

    The only blogs in English that I visit because they are good and put very good information are:

    1.OMG! Ubuntu! (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
    2. WebUPD8 (www.webupd8.org)

  31.   Polonium + uncomfortable leaders = leaders with cancer said

    A computer scientist must know enough English to be able to read technical computer documentation, nothing more, because he will never understand the nuances of a language that is not his own as a native. But yes, you must learn English, but a user? My mother is a history teacher and uses Linux because I installed it for her and removed all traces of the system from the colored windows on her computer. He manages perfectly to use his Firefox, his KDE and to update and install a program from time to time, all in perf ... (ehhh, I was going to say perfect Spanish, but it would be a lie, that there are translations that are sometimes seen in the onterfaces, xD), all in understandable Spanish. What need do you have to learn English?
    On the contrary, the little free time that her classes, her exams, work and her family give her, with two grandchildren who do not stop, must be for her, not to start studying something that has never interested her. So that that users learn English does not work, everyone will learn what they want.

    It is very important that there is information about Linux in Spanish or the vast majority of Hispanics in the world will once again perceive Linux as an OS for "geeks" and will take refuge even more in Windows. None of that, you have to normalize Linux, you have to make it clear that anyone can use it, that anyone can turn to the Internet to learn a little more or to ask questions, exactly as you can with Windows. Let's end the linuxphere and many new Linux users who start with their Ubuntu will turn around and return to the Windows world with a "windosphere" full of blogs in their beloved Spanish.

    Another thing is the issue of professionalizing the figure of the blogger. It is true that when something stops being a hobby to which one dedicates some hour a week to start dedicating several hours a day to it, it is no longer a hobby but an unpaid (or little) job; That is why I think it would be good to transform the blogger who writes for free into a true computer journalist, as there are scientific, economic, political, sports journalists, etc. Maybe fewer people writing, but more professional and who can make a profession of it. The million dollar question is how? hehe, how do you get a Linux blog to generate income? Without a doubt the quality, clarity and depth of the articles, the quality of the writing, with good prose, which shows that the language is mastered and that you know what you are talking about (that unfortunately there are too many blogs that seem written by a retard) and good spelling, they give prestige and keep visitors coming back, but in enough numbers to generate income that can pay decent wages for the people who support it? Good question.

  32.   Ferran said

    Well then, there has already been an idea to pay for the articles, where they affect us original content, it seems good to me, so we would delete the copy-paste, then it would be like the Scientific Journals, it seems like a good idea. Cheers

  33.   Ferran said

    For those who are not fought with the English language, a link with a good compilation of the best blogs, which I read daily. Cheers

    http://www.tuxmachines.org/

  34.   Gambi said

    Hi. My humble opinion is this:
    Agree on 4 with your stance of: translate / google sucks and it's embarrassing for someone to come up with that solution.
    I add that English will be the bread and butter in computing and blah blah blah blah ... which many comment like guru ... well I do not agree.
    Those of you who think this way have lost a very clear north that Hispanic Linux blogs have: PEDAGOGICAL work. And I think that many here have answered you clearly. You will use English as a computer language, but that language was taught to you in Spanish, don't be cynical to me now.
    Translation work is a huge advance for EVERYONE, the translator will not be the creator of the information, but he does the enormous job of understanding information in another language until he is able to transmit it in our language. As a friend of mine says: «… I don't need to invent the wheel or learn to make a fire every morning, others have already invented it».
    So for me "Welcome to all blogs that translate information, very grateful."
    Comment to the author: Point 5 I do not understand what it means, seriously, it is not a criticism or nothing is that I have no idea what you mean.

    1.    diazepam said

      When Stallman said that Ubuntu is Spyware, many Linux blogs (especially those specialized in Ubuntu) took it as a very hard blow given by the father of free software himself for those who consider that it is the distro through which Linux is entered (in addition to be not only the most used but also the first one that hardware and software vendors notice)

  35.   Sebas said

    Hello, I don't know much about Linux but I know English, sometimes I participate in writing translations of movies and series, could someone tell me what technical texts need translation in Linux ??? I would like to collaborate as much as possible, thank you.