Victor R. Ruiz

My name is Víctor R. Ruiz and I was born on 1975 in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands).

Job
Currently.

• IT Consulting (blogs, open source, Linux)


• Tech support and translation of TypePad, and translation of Movable Type for Six Apart Europe

Past jobs
I have worked, among others, on this sites.

• Developer at Six Apart Europe (2004-2007).


• Centro de Astrobiología INTA-CSIC, in Madrid, as computer technician for the Telescope Network (2003).


• LAMP teaching at Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (2002-2003)


• Developer and network admin at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2000).

Blogs
I probably need my own planet :)

• Blogging in the Wind, English.


• rvr's vox
• Linotipo, Spanish. About blogs and technology
• Cuaderno de Bitácora, Spanish. Astronomy, Science, and personal thoughts.
• Mi Barrapunto, Spanish. Tech stuff.
• I'm also Editor of Barrapunto, the Spanish Slashdot site.

Open source projects

• Blogalia. Blogging platform (PHP, PostgreSQL). One of the most active blog communities in the Spanish blogosphere.
• Blogometro, an open source implementation of Blogdex or Daypop-like sites, which tracks the activity of the Spanish blogosphere.
• JiBot, a social IRC bot (Python).
• lib-templage, template library (PHP).
• Blogatex, remote blog editor (PyQt)

Science communication

• Infoastro.com, astronomy news (and my first CMS in PHP).
• Astronomía Digital, an spanish astronomical e-magazine, which is part of the astronomy news site

Books, papers and presentations

• Co-author of "La blogosfera hispana: Pioneros de la cultura digital", book published by France Telecom Spain Foundation
• Measuring the Spanish Blogosphere, BlogTalk 1.0
• The Spanish-Speaking Blogosphere: Towards the Power Law?, BlogTalk 2.0