This is going to be the site where we will publish main project resources. At this moment, we explain what is the project about, publish a link to online demo and information about where the source code can be downloaded.

We are still in development phase so during next weeks we will publish more information and resources (like deb packages, user documents, etc).

• Git temp repository: http://git.igalia.com/xestion-producion.git
• Bugtracker https://naval.igalia.com/bugtracker
• Last deployment: https://naval.igalia.com/navalplanner-webapp/. User: admin/admin.

This project is licensed as AGPL. You can test it and if you have any comments they will be welcome.

During last days, Chema and me have been talking to some radios explaining how this master is and I hope some of you could listen to us .

Go for it!.

I am founder of Igalia but because of professional or personal reasons I had never been to a Guadec. However, my personal assessment for my first time in the Guadec is very positive, because this kind of conferences are good places to learn what other people is working on, to meet them and to do some interesting networking. But it is also important because it is a very good place to enjoy a good time with all the community.

About lectures, I enjoyed the lectures with new proposals for Gnome 3.0 but I would like to stress the one made by Xan López and Fernando Herrera about the history of Gnome. It was very funny!.

About organization, I would like to thank all the volunteers who were part of the organization for the effort done helping us and trying to make us feeling the best we could. I know there were problems (connection, first days with restaurants) but it is very difficult to avoid them in an event like this.

It was a great time so I’m looking forward to enjoy this experience again.

In this lecture I will try to talk about how Igalia was born and what Igalia represents to me and I will touch some topics that make the company so special:

• Our philosophy.
• Our flat organization.
• Our relation with free software and projects.

It’s a good course for people who want to know more about free software dynamics and know some companies that work in free software.

We started last week with our “Opening party”. We invited a lot of relatives, friends and collaborators to have some snacks in our new office. Some of my colleagues (Mario, Joaquim, Javi and Sergio) posted about it. It was an incredible day where I was talking with a lot of people and enjoying the night.

On Friday, we held our internal meeting, the assembly. A meeting were every main decision about Igalia is taken. I think this is the real party of Igalia, the party of the democracy because every Igalian give “her” opinion and “her” vote during a complete day.

Finally, _The Igalia Summit_, a weekend in a rural hotel for everybody. We played some team games, went to a spa and met to talk about interesting topics (for example, _philosophical document_ ). I wasn’t able to sleep a lot, but I enjoyed every minute of this Summit.

Here we are:

Yeah! An strenuous but satisfactory week!

I’ve been always against software patents, Igalia as company was in some campaings against them. But last week, I listened a very good example to clearly explain the reason in better way.

First, some context, software is an engineering area very different to other ones. For example, architecture or pharmacy need to deploy ideas in some physical medium, hence you have a real limit and you are not able to propose any combination of ideas for some specific purpose. However, in software, you can mix thousands of different ideas to develop a product. Maybe patents, in other areas, were created to avoid people dying with their secret.But software is different, and I think Richard Stallman is right trying to compare it with music.

Music is an abstract art where you can combine any idea to create a new one and music genius would never died with their secret. Do you imagine that in the first years of music height “music patents” existed? I do not think that would be fair for us that the first person who had the idea of mix some arpeggios could avoid other people from combining them, that is, without paying a good amount of money. Probably, we would not have Mozart or Beethoven works to enjoy because it would be impossible to reuse some previous ideas during their composition.
For me, software is similar, there are some obvious abstract ideas that should not be patented. Sooner or later people would need them to build better ideas, in the way musicians combine them. If software patents are approved, only big companies will be able to develop software programs. In Spain most of companies are “pymes”. They would be the only ones to fight against lawsuits because they have a lot of other patents to get a good agreement (if you do not hurt me I do not hurt you).

I think European government should be aware of this wolf in sheep’s clothing that patents may be for medium and little companies and they should avoid software patents to be approved.

Why is Igalia looking for a flat? It is simple, one of our main goals is to be able to work in a complete English environment, developing, writing, listening and speaking in English. Last year we had an item in our budget for a subsidy to go abroad to learn English. However, this year, we have changed this item to take advantage of the amount of money we are going to spend.

This flat will be available for the members of the assembly to go to London to learn English or to work in a complete English environment during several weeks.

The first step of this experiment was to get the flat. At this moment we are in the process of renting it. You can see one of our bedrooms:

Now we have to prepare it for living there, establish some rules for share the flat between us and then, we only need to enjoy it!.

• Base DN: dc=mswl,dc=com
• Users branch: ou=People,dc=mswl,dc=com
• Groups branch: ou=Groups,dc=mswl,dc=com

All the students were able to configure their own LDAP with a user and a group to test it. Once they had our LDAP configured, they could configure PAM to authenticate users, using pam_ldap.so, a module that allows to configure PAM with an existent LDAP server. For example, authenticating users that only exists in our LDAP.

All the information related with this class has been uploaded to the Master’s Moodle.

I hope the students enjoyed this class!

• Services related with systems and network administration.
• Web services related with web systems administration.
• Workshop on systems integration.
• Scripting.
• Network, user and physical security.

Berto, Javi Muñoz, Quique and me have been the teachers, but we counted on Marcelo Branco who gave a talk about “Libre Software and open standards in Public Administration”.

During this subject we have tried to teach in a practical way testing almost all the topics while the teacher was explaining the concepts. Thanks to this approach our students have been able to develop a custom Single Sign On and a Soap Server, analyze the configuration of different servers (Apache, LDAP, etc.), practice firewalling and some hacking concepts or develop some scripts in bash and perl. You can download documents and examples from URJC Moodle.

Next Saturday I’m going to have a debate with the students about all the subject and I will try to obtain some feedback in order to improve it for the next Master on Free/Libre Software in Vigo.