Month: July 2007

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 could attend to a lot of talks.

Today i have been preparing my presentation for the BoF “Organizing GNOME events” where i tried to give some indications about what is needed to organanize an event related to FLOSS. The audience was really nice and there was an interesting discussion related to what we need to increase the number of events related to GNOME.

I feel that we should try to define a good documentation related to what is needed to make organization an easier task. Is there is anybody interested in my presentation you can get my Slides here or at GUADEC website.

It was my first presentation in english, so sorry for my accent 🙂

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 en un entorno ideal gracias a GCUBO.

• Cosas que me gustaron: la atención de los organizadores, la ciudad (granada y la alhambra), el restaurante de la cena, algunas charlas muy bien preparadas, el diseño de todo el material (y esa pancarta), la participación del público en las mesas redondas, el éxito de los talleres de diseño, ver a toda la gente.
• Cosas a mejorar: que la gente envíe los artículos de sus ponencias, que se cumplan los tiempos del call for papers, la realización de tracks para hackers/usuarios (debe ser interesante para todos también para desarrolladores), que la próxima vez puedan venir la gente que no pudo como rodrigo, acs, alo, arc, etc…
• Cosas que no me gustaron: la duración de algunas charlas (no es bueno llevar retrasos en el programa), que haya gente informal que no avise de su ausencia cuando tiene una ponencia que ha enviado.

Resumiendo, GUADEC-ES el año que viene tiene que hacer bastantes cosas para superar el trabajo organizativo de este año, esperemos que la gente de la URJC nos confirme que están interesados en organizar la próxima edición :-).

Muchas gracias a Arturo, Loren, Manuel, Miguel y al resto de la gente por todo vuestro trabajo.

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 year GUADEC-ES has been organized by GCUBO.They are doing a great work, as far as i know they have been working really hard.

For this fourth edition i’ve proposed a pair of panels:

• Past, present and future of GNOME HISPANO, this talk it’s about how GNOME HISPANO was founded and what have we done until now. Alvaro del Castillo, José Ángel Díaz and Germán Poo will help me to drive this panel to answer some questions that we should solve to analyse the future of the group. I’ve wrote a short paper in spanish with some details abour our brief existence.
• GNOME in 59 seconds, this talk is based on the format we used at last year GUADEC-ES during a free software projects panel. The audience can ask any question to the developers present in the panel, but each answer can only last 59 seconds in order to make easy the participation of everybody. Alvaro López Ortega, Fernando San Martín, Fernando Herrera, Carlos Garnacho, Juan José Sánchez Penas will be our nice volunteers who will participate in this second edition.

We will have the asembly of GNOME HISPANO association like every year at GUADEC-ES, so don’t forget to pay your subscription as member of the association, remember that i’m the treasurer and i will publish people that have pending payments 😉