{"id":338,"date":"2011-11-16T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-11-16T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:09:18","slug":"10-years-of-igalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2011\/11\/16\/10-years-of-igalia\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of igalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably have noticed via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/igalia\/status\/136747402387398656\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\/nc\/igalia-247\/news\/item\/igalia-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary\/\">sources<\/a>, this month we are\u00a0celebrating something very significant for us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\">igalia<\/a>: we, the\u00a0company, the project, the collective, are becoming 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>It has been an amazingly intense experience. 10 years is a lot of\u00a0time, and for those of us who have been here since the very beginning,\u00a0born close to the end of the 70s, it means that about 1\/3 of our\u00a0life, and therefore almost all our adulthood, was professionally\u00a0devoted to contribute to the construction and evolution of igalia.<\/p>\n<p>Although many things were discussed along several meetings during the\u00a0first half of 2001, when we started defining our founding\u00a0principles, two were clearly identified as the pillars of the project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> We wanted to develop free software, to participate in the amazing,\u00a0international network of cooperation where people were then starting\u00a0to explore new paths towards open innovation. Using and supporting\u00a0free software, the most common business models back then (and\u00a0arguably still now) was nice, but we wanted to go further and to\u00a0humbly devote most of our energy to build new -and to contribute to\u00a0already existent- software.<\/li>\n<li> We wanted to bring direct democracy to the working place, embracing\u00a0a cooperative internal structure, sharing ownership and making all\u00a0the members of the project participate in the discussions and\u00a0decisions that define the future of the company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking back, I honestly think that we did a good job respecting those\u00a0founding principles. Both us (individually and collectively) and our\u00a0environment have changed a lot over the years, we have gone from a\u00a0small local team of people to a much bigger and international team\u00a0composed by colleagues with many nationalities working from many\u00a0different locations; we have gone from small and local customers to\u00a0working internationally with most of the relevant actors which are\u00a0using or contributing to the different open source platforms\/projects;\u00a0we have gone from being relatively inexperienced but passionate and\u00a0willing to learn to equally passionate but with already some\u00a0experiences to learn from; and all this time, without exceptions, the\u00a0essence has remained untouched: the spirit was the same all the time,\u00a0and we still do free software, and we still believe in people and keep\u00a0the flat internal structure.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\/nc\/igalia-247\/news\/item\/igalia-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/files\/2011\/11\/10years.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is quite difficult for me to write this post. Many memories and\u00a0feelings cross my head, many good moments and also some more\u00a0complicated ones, mainly in the first period, when a huge percentage\u00a0of companies disappear and we managed to resist, learn and grow. If I\u00a0wanted to be fair I would need to thank here a lot of people, a very big list, all those who in one way or another were part of this\u00a0project, for all the help and support along the years, but they\u00a0already know who they are and how grateful I am, so I will keep it\u00a0private, and just say that I am very proud of what we have achieved: \u00a010 years participating in the free (software) world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably have noticed via other sources, this month we are\u00a0celebrating something very significant for us at igalia: we, the\u00a0company, the project, the collective, are becoming 10 years old. It has been an amazingly intense experience. 10 years is a lot of\u00a0time, and for those of us who have been here since the very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2011\/11\/16\/10-years-of-igalia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 years of igalia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freesoftware","category-gnome","category-igalia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}