O pasado xoves 28 de abril foi un día maravilloso para toda a comunidade GNOME de Galicia. Xa que celebramos a Festa de Lanzamento de GNOME 3. O evento foi organizado maxistralmente pola asociación Ghandalf en colaboración coas asociaciónsGpul e Trasno, e co apoio económico da Xunta de Galiza.
As nosas espectatívas de asistencia vironse sobrepasadas. Fomos perto de 50 persoas desfrutando da festa, todos moi ilusionados xa que tanto desenvolvedores que alí estaban presentes, moitos deles da empresa Igalia, como tradutores do GNOME ao galego traballamos moi duramente nos últimos meses para poder ter un GNOME 3 resplandecente.
Unha mistura dun evento totalmente planificado coa expontaneidade xeral dunha festa, o trascurso da mesma foi ameno e moi bó. Todo estaba no seu lugar namentres os poñentes e os asistentes dialogaban segundo avanzaba. Foi unha alegría ver de novo xagrandesamigosmeusdo Software Libre, e non me cansei de darlles as grazas pola súa asistencia xa que coido que para todos era un momento especial logo do inmenso traballo que levou chegar a onde chegamos. Read the rest of this entry »
This Wednesday, November 24th, we made a lecture at the University of Coruña to tech and linguistic people, related with the projects that our galician opensource community are managing and what are their states, and for the other hand how to improve translations by using different techniques we are currently applying in GNOME and Ubuntu.
This lecture was part of two weeks of course, where the more proficient people of open source community of Galicia have explained how they work and how anyone could colaborate with them doing tasks as translations, managing projects or reviewing. You can find more information about all the lectures at the webpage of Trasno Association[in galician]. This course was sponsorized by our regional gobernment (Xunta de Galicia).
These are our 5 presentations for the lecture, but you can read them at slideshare [in galician]:
Mabishu has been working and managing GNOME translations for Galician language, and this Saturday, October 16th, we are going to make a speech about our experiences in translation and coordination with this amazing community. This event is sponsorized by Mabishu Studio, OpenHost and our regional gobernment (Xunta de Galicia).
These are the slides for the speech and you can read it at slideshare [in galician]:
Last Thursday and Friday I was in Coruña attending to the GUADEC-ES, the most important event of GNOME and “hispanic version” of GNOME Users and Developers Conference. It was my first event focused in GNOME and was simply amazing. I met a lot of GNOME Hackers and get the feeling that I’m in a collaborate with great community.
I enjoy all the talks but I have to highlight some of them.
Git it done!by Mario Sánchez. I use git for more than 2 years but Mario gave us a glorifious crash course about it. You can find the slides [ES] in the next link: http://tinyurl.com/2wzqy6d
Other of the talks that I prefer is “GNOME 3 para desarrolladores” (GNOME 3 for developers). Carlos Garcia Campos explain us the main differences between last GNOME libraries and what was done to achieve GNOME 3. Clean up !!
The great discovery talk was “Vala, un lenguaje para Gnome 3.0” by Roberto Majadas. I heared just a little about Vala but Roberto with a lot of examples explain us the posibilities that Vala has to develop with a high-level language but with the benefits of optimization and speed of C language.
And finally ”cómo estudiar y participar en software libre sin morir en el intento” (How to study and participate in Free Software without die trying). Diego Escalante, developer of Epiphany, IMHO is the best speaker I have the pleasure to attend. The talk had a funny tone mixed with real experiences. Again you can find the slides here: http://people.gnome.org/~diegoe/slides/20100723_Coru%25C3%25B1a_Estudiar-y-participar.pdf
GPUL, coorganizers of this GUADEC, promised to make accesible all the videos recorded there. When this happen I’ll update this post to link them.
Conclusion: I recommend all to go this type of conferences cause you can learn a lot in just some hours and you’ll meet a lot of amazing people.
