Mi hermano pequeño tiene 11 años. Ayer me contó que en las clases extraescolares de informática que da por las tardes en el colegio utilizan unos ordenadores que no tienen un Índice abajo a la izquierda, sino una barra arriba con un Aplicaciones y un Acciones.

Me alegró el día saber que el verdadero futuro de Andalucía está aprendiendo informática con un sistema operativo libre y, lo que en este caso es más importante, un sistema operativo en el que yo estuve trabajando hará un año y medio, la primera versión de Guadalinex Edu.
Un sistema que no depende de grandes compañías, que se basa en compartir conocimiento, que en muchos aspectos técnicos es cualitativamente superior, un sistema, en fin, que en mi partidista opinión es el mejor con el que un niño puede aprender informática.

Y además, ese futuro es mi hermano. De verdad me alegró el día.

It wasn’t a really hard week, though at work we are reaching a good limit of per week hours of stress. But the weekend withouth family at home contributed to reduce that. Reading a lot and listening to good music. Hmm, I should implement The Pila

Last Wednesday, we uploaded a new revision of Mono, because the last one depended on libicu26 which is not in SID yet. Also, monodoc is already in NEW, and a new upstream revision of gtk-sharp was uploaded too. Wish blam! will be soon up there, it rocks the blogs.

And next week, the OpenSourceWorldConference will be a hard but really fun event. Heh, we’ll even have a royal presence, our sacred Spanish prince will open the conference. Take a look at the congress center

See you there!!!

Today we had 23 degrees Celsius (27 directly under sunlight) in Seville, what is really nice to be February. If we hadn’t 50 in July, I would see the global warming with different eyes.

In the Debian world, today I joined the Mono Packaging Team, which has a project in Alioth. I believe that a well done and agile mono packaging in Debian is critical, we need many .NET applications in the archive soon, as others are doing.

blam! is the first step, then f-spot, etc. To start getting involved with .NET apps and GTK#, just apt-get install gtk-sharp-examples

As I already wrote some days ago, the OpenSourceWorldConference is real soon now, from 18th to 20th of February in Malaga, Spain.

And, as I also told, the GuadaLinEx team willed to organize a meeting with other Debian based distributions and with the Debian project itself, and regarding how they interact with each other and with the main project. So, after several days of social networking, we got financiation for it from the Junta de Andalucia, the regional government who is affording the GuadaLinEx project.

After the meeting, the main idea is giving back some feedback to debian-devel and try to improve how the infrastructure for Debian based distros work.

We have just made a webpage, (thanks to the Plone project for making such a good product that allows making a nice webpage in an easy way), with some more information: assistants, provisional schedule, etc.

If you are going to Malaga and want to talk about this interesting workgroup, don’t miss dDebian !!!

Really interesting entry in Nat Friedman‘s blog, and I mean all the software thoughts, not his new flat furniture stuff. Yes, Innovation is the way.

Another interesting thing is that Mydoom is already in the NYT and Bruce Perens wrote an open letter to the Linux and Free Software Community about it.

Today was a hard, but fruitful, day.

Firstly, in the morning, I had to burn several CDs that we gave to the press a bit later, during the GuadaLinEx press conference where the project, which is a bit more than a distro (hardware standardization, Free Software courses, etc.) has been presented to the press.

In a month or so, several thousands of CDs will be delivered all over Andalucia with the newspapers, in the Internet, in schools, etc, etc. GuadaLinEx is based in Debian, works as a live CD thanks to the MetaDistros project, and we try, together with the LinEx project to avoid duplication of work. We expect about two million users in about a year and a half, when the distro is in all the schools and most citizens computers. Yes, that means two million Debian users. A great userland.

After that, I was with other folks from ADALA and HispaLiNUX in meeting with politicians of the Junta de Andalucía (regional government which is developing and leading the GuadaLinEx project) talking about the posible ways of spread the free software philosophy, GuadaLinEx and so on.

Later, we were having a couple of beers and tapas and talking about the Open Source World Conference which is going to be held in Málaga next February 18-20. It’s going to be a really interesting congress.

Of course, there will be a Debian meeting there, regarding how Debian derivated distros (LinEx, GuadaLinEx, SkoleLinux, the Greek project) can feedback all the users and developers experience to Debian. I’ve already invited people from SkoleLinux, from Greece and tbm and I’ve contacted other developers I’d like to be there and see what we are doing. You can come too, Málaga is a really nice city! :)

Wow, it has been a too long entry, I’m sorry.

I’ve blogged about this in my Spanish blog already, but I wanted to post it here.

A couples of days before the “Reyes” (Jan 6) day, which is the big presents day of the year in Spain (no, it isn’t christmas day, not yet), I were doing my last shopping and I could make this photograph.

It’s LinEx running in a computer, a 300 EUR computer. Yes, they are selling a computer with Linex, a Debian based distro made by the Extremadura government. I wish I’ll see this with Guadalinex too.

I added some modules to my sidebox, several blogs of my friends, blogs that I ussually read and a couple of links of projects I’m involved. BTW, Zope and the DTML language are great, it’s a bit hard to learn but it’s really versatile.