{"id":159,"date":"2009-07-14T03:40:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-07-14T03:40:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T01:40:42","slug":"back-from-gran-canaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2009\/07\/14\/back-from-gran-canaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Gran Canaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many things happened during the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that it&#8217;s impossible to summarize them all, but here&#8217;s a list of the ones that come to my mind now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alfredo Kraus auditorium is a great venue, and its location couldn&#8217;t be better.<\/li>\n<li>The University was less spectacular, but from a functional point of view I think it was more suited to this kind of conference than the auditorium (to begin with, Internet connection worked better). Its main problems: distance to the city center and lack of places to have lunch.<\/li>\n<li>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org\/node\/152\">Jos van den Oever<\/a> said: <em>we not only share specifications, we also share code<\/em>, and everyone in the room started to applaud.<\/li>\n<li>Despite that, and at least for me due to the packed schedule, I couldn&#8217;t attend any of the KDE talks. I don&#8217;t know if other people had the same feeling, but I left Gran Canaria a bit skeptical about the actual usefulness of having both conferences together.<\/li>\n<li>All keynotes were good.<\/li>\n<li>Moblin 2 looks promising.<\/li>\n<li>GNOME Shell, Zeitgeist, Clutter, WebkitGTK+, client side windows.<\/li>\n<li>The hacking sessions at the hotel lobby.<\/li>\n<li>Nokia&#8217;s announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/07\/04\/2155209\">Maemo will switch away from GTK+<\/a>. While this is a complex decision with a lot of causes (probably some of them political and some of them technical), I think it&#8217;s fair to say that this is (at least party) a failure of GNOME\/GTK+, and deserves some debate inside the GNOME community.<\/li>\n<li>Few women giving talks. I hope there comes a day when the number of women in free software conferences is not a matter of mention.<\/li>\n<li>The weather was too hot for me (although at night it was fantastic).<\/li>\n<li>The beach at night.<\/li>\n<li>Canarian food at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/~federico\/news-2009-07.html#10\">dinner with the GNOME Hispano team<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Fernando and Xan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29913312@N04\/3694496817\/\">GNOME 1, 2, 3 show.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mariosp\/3701087692\/\">GNOME band<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29913312@N04\/3707868233\/\">Kimmo using a whiteboard<\/a> for his talk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many things happened during the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that it&#8217;s impossible to summarize them all, but here&#8217;s a list of the ones that come to my mind now: Alfredo Kraus auditorium is a great venue, and its location couldn&#8217;t be better. The University was less spectacular, but from a functional point of view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gnome","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-maemo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}