The life, the universe and everything

Last week from Tuesday until Friday(May 4-7, 2010), the city of Zaragoza and the Aragon Regional Government hosted our GNOME 3.0 Marketing Hackfest.

We had a really productive and busy week, working on the marketing plans and actions for launching GNOME 3.0.

The main subjects were:

GNOME 3 Website:

As Andreas already said, the goal is create a website with videos showing the new great and amazing things on GNOME 3, the new website will be more integrated with social networks, in this way we will have a dynamical content from user in social networks.

Website Mockup by Andreas

GNOME 3 Talking Points:

Yes, we compile everything cool (or the most)  you should know about GNOME 3. I should confess I was a resistant old GNOME look and feel user(I love my GNOME panel), and working on the plans for launching the GNOME 3 was really convinced about all the changes. The new GNOME is amazing and it is more, much more than we can see.

The new Ambassadors project:

A new way to get more contributors at the project and spread the GNOME at the world. Our goal is provide all the infra for the new ambassadors, everyone will feel comfortable to talk about GNOME in conferences, universities and regional groups. Take look at our almost done draft http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors

Video Story boards:

The story boards for new videos on the new GNOME 3 website were created. Now we just need to film then

Sumana has summarized all the work we have done during the week at the hackfest in her blog.

We talked to members of the local community that are doing a great work developing free software in their companies as Ignacio Correas in EBOX and Felix Ontanon and Juan Ojeda in  Emergya.

You can see more pics here.

Thanks all the attendees Stormy, Jason, Vincent, Andreas, Sumana, Paul, Bharat, Ryan and Dani, it was a pleasure work with you.

Thanks Agustín, Albert and Ignacio for the hospitality.

And of course, many thanks for our sponsors: Zaragoza Municipality, Aragon Regional Government, Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA), ASOLIF, CESLA and the GNOME Foundation .

Felipe Lerena, Licio Fonseca and Guillermo Lisi

As you shouldn’t know, I’ve been at Buenos Aires in the begin of january. I’ve had the great opportunity to meet some ubuntu-ar guys. My friend Felipe Lerena, that I’ve meet at FISL last year, has invited us for some beer.

I’ve met there, Guillermo Lisi and his good portuguese pronunciation(what helped me a lot), Mariano Paz and his magic backpack(there is everything you need and somethings you don’t need) and of course Felipe.

It was amazing, we talked about everything, mainly about the community stuff. It was very funny to heard around the same table 3 languages(thanks guys for helping me improve my spanish). Another important thing was see  that the local teams have the same problems no matter in which country and what really moves a community is the need for share, it’s more important than any position or any label!

I hope meet everybody again at FISL, we might got a Ubuntu South America meeting

It’s time to packing again!
LatinoWare is coming up around the corner, and finally Ubuntu-BR crew has confirmed their participation. Latinoware is a important conference to Latin America free software community,  this year we’ll have some Ubuntu members: Nicolas Valcarcel (Peru), Jonh Wendell, Duda Nogueira, Fabio Nogueira, and others…

LatinoWare will be host for another two big meetings: the 5º Gnome Forum and the  Fedora Latin America Conference for Ambassadors and Users.

I’ve promessed last Fisl to post about it every day, unfortunately it was a quite complicated. I hope be able to post my point of view about LatinoWare at least every day in English and Portuguese. I might create a new account for English twitts. Of course, if I survive the long journey by bus from where I live to Foz do Iguaçu, I believe it can take a day!

I really have to say thanks to LatinoWare staff, Fedora Brasil Crew, and Jono for the help.

am I a PC? am I a Mac?

No!

I’m a human being and I like to have the control over my system!

Who are you?

I tried to install Ubuntu 8.04 in my brother’s computer, but the installer crashes everytime. So when I looked carefully the logs I realized the problem was the migration-assitant. Since the last version(I think!), to reduce the instalation steps, ubiquity doesn’t have anymore a gui option to disable the migration-assistant.

If you have problems with migration-assistant like me and you don’t wish download the alternate version, just run the follow command on a Live CD terminal:

sudo ubiquity –no-migration-assistant

Don’t forget send the bug report about it.

My workstation:

[licio@licio ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
322 ssh
96 cd
86 ls
75 telnet
55 exit
41 scp
35 dig
28 wget
25 ping
24 vim

Yes, how can you see, I’m still  using telnet, I’ve got some old servers running aix and sun os.