I've submitted a talk to Wikimania titled apt install mediawiki. It's about getting the MediaWiki package back into Debian, and efforts to improve the overall process. If you're interested, sign up on the submissions page :)
If you missed the news, the Raiders are moving to Las Vegas. The Black Hole is leaving Oakland (again) for a newer, nicer, stadium in the desert. But let's talk about how we got here, and how different this is from the moving of the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles.
The current Raiders stadium is outdated and old. It needs renovating to keep up with other modern stadiums in the NFL. Owner Mark Davis isn't a multi-billionaire that could finance such a stadium. And the City of Oakland is definitely not paying for it. So the options left are find outside financing for Oakland, for find said financing somewhere else. And unfortunately it was the latter option that won out in the end.
I think it's unsurprising that more and more cities are refusing to put public money into stadiums that they will see no profit from - it makes no sense whatsoever.
Overall I think the Raider Nation will adapt and survive just as it did when they moved to Los Angeles. The Raiders still have an awkward two-to-three years left in Oakland, and with Derek Carr at the helm, it looks like they will be good ones.
In California March Madness is really...March Sadness. The only Californian team that is still in is UCLA. UC Davis made it in but was quickly eliminated. USC and Saint Mary's both fell in the second round. Cal and Stanford didn't even make it in. At best we can root for Gonzaga, but that's barely it.
Some of us root for school's we went to, but for those of us who grew up here and support local teams, we're left hanging. And it's not bias in the selection commitee, those schools just aren't good enough.
On top of that we have a top notch professional team through the Warriors, but our amateur players just aren't up to muster.
So good luck to UCLA, represent California hella well. We somewhat believe in you.
And so it has been found. Tom Brady's jersey was in Mexico the whole time, stolen by a member of the press. And while it's great news for Brady, sports memorabilia fans, and the FBI, it doesn't look good for journalists. Journalists are given a lot of access to players, allowing them to obtain better content and get better interviews. It would not be surprising if the NFL responds to this incident by locking down the access that journalists are given. And that would be real bummer.
I'm hoping this is seen as an isolated incident and all journalists are not punished for the offenses by one.
Originally published in La Voz News.
The DASB Senate passed a resolution advocating the Foothill-De Anza Foundation’s divestment from companies profiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Wednesday, March 15. The proposal, prepared by the De Anza Students for Justice club was presented a week after Israel passed a law banning anyone advocating divestment from entering the country.The co-chairs of Students for Justice, Viana Lopez and Kenneth Gabbard, held a presentation about how many see Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as illegal under international law.
Read the full story at La Voz News (archived version).
As you might have guessed due to the lack of previous coverage of the Warriors, I'm not really a basketball fan. But the Warriors are in an interesting place right now. After setting an NBA record for being the fastest team to clinch a playoff spot, Coach Kerr has started resting his starters and the Warriors have a three game losing streak. This puts the Warriors in danger of losing their first seed spot with the San Antonio Spurs only half a game behind them.
But I think the Warriors are doing the right thing. Last year the Warriors set the record for having the best regular season record in NBA history, but also became the first team in NBA history to have a 3-1 advantage in the finals and then lose.
No doubt there was immense pressure on the Warriors last year. It was just expected of them to win the championship, there really wasn't anything else.
So this year they can easily avoid a lot of that pressure by not being the best team in the NBA on paper. They shouldn't worry about being the top seed, just seed in the top four, and play your best in the playoffs. Get some rest, they have a huge advantage over every other team simply by already being in the playoffs with so many games left to play.
