Month: April 2006

3 talk/BoF proposals for the Guadec

From Igalia, we have submitted 3 talk/BoF proposals for the next Guadec, that will take place in less than two months in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia:

All have been provisionally placed in the skeleton schedule (the first two are part of the core Guadec days, and the third is proposed for the After Hours Workshops, during the last two days of the conference).

In a few days the committee will confirm which proposals are finally accepted.

The software I daily use (as a user)

Someone asked me some weeks ago for a complete list of all the software I daily use (as a laptop user, not as a developer, because that is a different business), so here it is:

  • Desktop: Gnome/Metacity/Nautilus
  • RSS reader: Liferea
  • IM: Gaim
  • IRC: Xchat
  • Browser: Firefox
  • Newsreader: Pan
  • E-mail: Mutt (work) & Evolution (personal e-mail)
  • Music: Muine & Banshee
  • Notes: Tomboy
  • CD/DVD Toaster: gnomebaker
  • Digital camera: gtkam
  • Docs&slides: LaTeX & OOo
  • Bibtex: JavRef
  • Spreadsheet: gnumeric
  • Fast Editing: Jed, Vi, Gedit
  • Editing: Emacs
  • P2P: aMule, gnome-btdownload, nicotine
  • Podcast: iPodder
  • PM: Planner
  • PDF/PS: Evince & acroread & gv
  • Pics: Gimp, F-spot, Gthumb, eog
  • Movies: Totem, mplayer
  • Internet voice conference: skype

I use other programs now and then, but this is the complete list of the ones I currently depend on. Some of them I have been using for years, some others I have just discovered. Most of them are part of the Gnome project. Most of them are GTK based.

I only use daily two proprietary pieces of software: acroread because I need to read some PDFs still not supported by Evince or other free readers; and skype because I save a lot of money, when travelling, using skypeout.

I will do again the same list next year by the same month in order to check how stable I am selecting my software.