Chema Casanova’s Blog

It has been a long time since i last wrote a post in my blog, my blog is included in several planets so every time i published anything it was published at Planet Igalia, Planet GNOME HISPANO , Planet GPUL and the Planet Caixanova Master on Free Software, but today if finally i finished decided […]

I have spent some nice days in GUADEC in Istanbul. This year i was not giving a talk but i have the emotion of the bid we presented for hosting GUADEC in 2009. After attending to a lot of interesting talks yesterday the GNOME Foundation announced that next year GUADEC will be co-located with aKademy […]

It has been my first day at GUADEC, i have met some of the fantastic volunteers that have been collaborating in Vilanova as Gil, Silvia and the organizer Baris. They continue being fantastic people with a lot of energy.
Today talks were quite interesting, I liked specially talk from Miguel about his point of view of […]

Last weekend Emilio, José Millán and me were working hard our proposal to co-host GUADEC and aKademy next year in A Coruña. In our bid we try to show the community all the possibilities of our city and our team to organize such a great event, but we are better working hard than writing long […]

Last two weeks we have been working hard preparing a proposal for hosting GUADEC and aKademy in a Coruña next year. After organizing GUADEMY last year we decided that this could be the moment for writing a good proposal for next year, and I feel that we have done it.
The following organizations GPUL, Igalia and […]

Last year the First edition of GUADEMY was organized by GPUL and it was a fantastic experience, this year we are proud of the Polinux guys, because they have decided to assume the challenge of organizing a second edition.
Last year it was quite a success because of the participation of almost of the people from […]

One of the lastest ideas surrounding the evolution of the GNOME Desktop is the concept of Online Desktop. It was introduced during last GUADEC at the Keynote of Bryan Clark and Havoc Pennington.
Today I finally get it running on my Ubuntu 7.10 without not many problems following the instructions. Next weeks i will study about […]

I’ve spent last week here at Birmingham attending VII GUADEC. It has been an amazing conference trying to define the future of the GNOME project.
The main discussions have been about the integration of Internet on the desktop and the future of the 3D desktop. This year i haven’t been involved in the organization so i […]

Otra vez nos hemos reunimos la gente que tiene inquietudes sobre la plataforma GNOME en Granada en la IV GUADEC Hispana organizada por GCUBO.
De la organización no se puede decir otra cosa que merecen todas las felicitaciones por el trabajo que han realizado. La GUADEC Hispana ha sido un evento que nos ha permitido reunirnos […]

I wanted to post about this year GUADEC-ES, but i’ve been very busy these days. This year this great GNOME event will be at Granada, one of the most beautiful cities i know. It was a pity that the Alhambra wasn’t one of the 7 wonders of the modern age, but it continues being wonderful.
This […]