This weekend GUAdemy, a mixed conference between GUADEC and Akademy, lands in Coruña. As in most of Gnome related events, Igalia is going to be there.
For me, I’m going to give a talk about maemo on Saturday afternoon, as Miguel, Chema, Susana, Iago and Sergio are going to give other talks about several Gnome related issues.
If you want to learn about the Gtk based environment for embedded devices created by Nokia, come and join us.
See you soon!
Ya ha pasado bastante tiempo desde mi última publicación escrita en Helsinki así que, de vuelta en Coruña (ya puedo decir que estoy en casa puesto que me he empadronado 😉 ), por fin me he decidido a escribir con un tema y dibujos para las habituales capturas que acompañan a mis artículos.
Hace unas semanas Guadalinex convocó un concurso de fondos de escritorio. El premio: una camiseta y un peluche de Andatuz, su mascota. Puesto que estoy haciendo renovación de camisetas freakies, me decidí a presentarme.
Como le dije a vari@s amig@s, mi imaginación quedó muy mermada después de 8º de E.G.B. (la quema de neuronas adolescentes no perdona) así que intenté que las mentes lúcidas que me rodean (no demasiado lúcidas viendo la cantidad de ideas recibidas 😀 ) me iluminaran con su sabiduría y, tras varias noches de insomnio y trabajo Inkscaperil (palabro made in Mario) este es el resultado (?) que pude enviar a última hora, justo antes de que acabara el plazo, este pasado viernes 16 de marzo.
A partir de entonces, y hasta el próximo 16 de abril se ha abierto el plazo de votaciones que decidirán los 20 ganadores de este concurso. Como no confío demasiado en mi talento he decidido hacer una petición a vosotros, lectores eventuales de mi blog 😉 . Para votarme lo único que tenéis que hacer es registraros en la página de Guadalinex y seguir las instrucciones que se proporcionan en la página del concurso.
Ah, se me olvidaba, mis dibujos están en la cuarta página del concurso.
As Quique, one of my colleagues from Igalia, had previously posted, gnuLinex was in the Spanish local Iberia’s flights last summer (I don’t know if there are copies of gnuLinex still in this kind of flights), as a present for every passenger.
I think this is a great idea in order to spread free software and I hope other initiatives, like inserting OpenOffice.org as the default office application for public worker appliances would be followed by other Spanish public administrations.
Last months I’ve being doing some tasks in order to become a Debian Maintainer.
First, because of some requirements at work, I have being repackaging some pieces of software so I’ve learned about the Debian packages architecture. Once I was confident with what I was doing and I needed to know more about customizing a package (not just rebuilding one) I read the Debian New Maintainers’ Guide and the Debian Policy Manual, I made some new packages and subscribe myself to the Debian mailing lists I thought they would be profitable.
Some weeks after that I realized the amount of mails I was receiving was so huge that I hadn’t the time to even skim them in order to read the interesting ones so I desubscribe myself from the lists I knew I wasn’t going to read ever.
Indeed, some weeks ago, the amount of mails received from the lists I thought I could read was so big that now I’m starting to think of desubscribing myself from all the mailing lists but the mentors one.
In the end, I’ve not found the time needed to start the race to become a Debian Maintainer. I think the dedication needed is so high that I should spend a cople of hours everyday.
I hope I could find an orphaned package interesting enough to give me the energy to retry to be a Debian Maintainer ;-).
Following with the art serie and the planet.igalia.com subject, this time I’ve being drawing a hackergotchie proposal for myself. This picture is inspired in my own logo and the beautiful drawings made by Ayo. Also, the colours palette is the Tango Project palette, which would give a common style to the full set of hackergotchies, if I finally do them, but, I’m sorry, currently I’ve not following the rest Tango icon guidelines. ASAP I’ll try to draw some desktop icon proposals following the whole guideline.
First time I knew about Ayo’s artwork was when I was working at the A Coruña’s city council educational network. The main work there was giving support to the thin clients used in the computing classes at schools and I did some artwork for CoruniX, the Debian based distro used in the thin clients. I asked Ayo in order to give me permission for using his frozen bubbles‘ penguins as a template for one of the CoruniX friends.
Anyway, I’ve done only my hackergotchie because we, at Igalia, are dicussing about what to use as hacergotchies. In the end, we probably will be using the «heads cut» – sorry Jordi 😉 – used in another «planets» like planet.gnome.org. I think they should be more useful if we want to be recognized whenever we go to meetings like GUADEC.
What do you think?
Today, I’ve wasted some time drawing a new logo for planet.igalia.com. Yeah, at Igalia, we have installed a new site to sindicate all the blogs in which our developers are writing.
Because of our name, we have been ever related to the Asterix & Obelix iconography, and, because of our place in the world, Galicia, we have deep roots in Celtic culture. That’s why I’ve drawn a «palloza», this typical house made of stone and straw.
I’ve also drawn a second version with 4 satellites surrounding our loved Igalia planet. It was inspired by alex and tries to represent the four roman campments which sourrands Asterix’ town. I’ve to say that the four different colours were taken from the MS Windows flag ;-). You could take a look at it in my Flickr page, if you want.
Finally, I’ve also created a favicon for planet.igalia.com with this picture and uploaded to our site. I’ve no asked to anybody for their agreement because I know we would start a new design tastes war as we were used to have, so, critics are welcome but not heared :-D.
Next job, drawing hackergotchies!!
Enjoy!!!
Last monday I had an english exam at the Official Languages School in A Coruña. I’m studying the 5th and final level so I’m supposed to have a quite good english level (which is not true as you could guess from these posts ;-)) and the exam should have been a bit difficult. As far as I’m not studying english, I mean, I’m just going to the classes, I decided to stay at home the whole weekend trying to train the related grammar and memorize vocabulary. The nightmare became true!!
The point is that, the harder I tried to study, the easier I did other tasks instead. I don’t know if you have ever been in this situation but for me, it’s becoming a bad habit.
Actually, it was a torture to put my eyes on the english book, I had to do another thing!!! And I did it. I did clear up my room (yeah!!, stop laughing!!), I was ironing, doing the washing up, went to play a soccer match, etc.
I was even drawing a logo prototype for the GUADEC 2006 logo contest, which I know the deadline had just gone, and the thematic I choose was doing a soccer player t-shirt simil using the number from the GUADEC version (7), even knowing the contest was for a general GUADEC logo, not just for the GUADEC#7 event!!!!! Crazy, isn’t it!!!!
I didn’t want to study at all, but I had to.
Anyway, I accomplished my subconscience target, I was abled to make only one reading of the whole subject.
If you are curious enough, you can take a look to my two logo prototypes which survived to the creation process at my Flickr page.
And, what about the exam? Well, IMHO it was quite easy and, after 3h 30′ writing, I’m quite sure I’m going to pass it.
Hey, I forgot it! I could have saved some extra points thanks to these hours «reading» grammar and vocabulary, so I have to say it wasn’t a waste of time.
Hi all!!
I’m just unpacking my new blog. I’ve compromised to write a bit every week about me and all the stuff we’re developing at Igalia. Hightlights would be my efforts to become a Debian developer, work on Gnome, Fisterra, Mono and Thin Clients related things.
You’re quite wellcome to write any comment you want.
P.S.: Please, excuse me for my english :-p.
