Imágenes de Gonzalo y un servidor en Málaga

Vemos en la foto, de izquierda a derecha, a Gonzalo Aller (gerente de Fotón, del Grupo CPD), Lars Ellebretch (de la Fundeación Apache), Antonio Larrosa (desarrollador de KDE) y un servidor. Fue sacada en la pasada Conferencia de Software Libre de Málaga, en febrero de 2006.

No se nota demasiado, pero nos lo pasamos la mar de bien. Antonio, como ya ocurriera en Akademy, fue todo un maestro de ceremonia para los foráneos, especialmente los guiris.

We can see on the picture, from left to right, Gonzalo Aller (Fotón, Grupo CPD), Lars Ellebretch (Apache Software Foundation), Antonio Larrosa (KDE e.V. member) and I. It was shooted on Malaga Free Sofware Conference, on february 2006.

Estas y otras fotos de la Conferencia, sacadas por Antonio Larrosa (con su cámara, vamos), pueden encontrarla aquí

Conferencia de Richard Dale en la ULL

Atendiendo a algunas peticiones de lectores para que escriba en español, quiero hacer unos comentarios sobre la conferencia de Richard Dale en la ULL.

El pasado jueves 23 de marzo, la dirección del Centro Superior de Informática y la SSL (Secretaría de Software Libre) de la ULL (Universidad de La Laguna) invitaron a Richard Dale a impartir una conferencia aprovechando su visita a Tenerife para trabajar conmigo y con Enrique Zanardi en mEDUXa. Asistieron unas 50 personas, lo cual es un éxito teniendo en cuenta que fue confirmada con sólo 24 horas de antelación. Me dio la impresión de que muchos de los asistentes no tenían muchos conocimientos de programación orientada a objetos, por lo que parte de la conferencia supongo que les resultó áspera.

Por otro lado, al igual que hice con la ULL, ofrecí a la ULPGC, a través de la lista de correo de la OSL (oficina de software libre) la posibilidad de que Richard ofreciera una conferencia o un workshop. Me ha extrañado comprobar cómo algunos miembros de la lista no se han mostrado a favor de un evento como este. He respondido en dicha lista exponiendo mis ideas acerca de la idoneidad de que los alumnos escuchen o trabajen con alguien como Mr. Dale. Si yo fuera responsable universitario lo tendría claro, querría que mis alumnos compartieran el máximo número de horas posibles con alguien con tanta experiencia y buenhacer. Veremos qué pasa.

Richard Dale in Tenerife

Richard Dale has spent some days in Tenerife. I have had the chance to be with him most of the time and the only thing I can say is that it's been a pleasure. Richard is the number one in his job (Qt-Ruby) but also a great guy.

We have been trying to figure out how Kmenu works in order to customized it for mEDUXa. We also have been designing (with Enrique Zanardi) some other key mEDUXa's features.

He gave a conference in ULL (Tenerife's college). More than 50 people assisted. It was a great surprise. Esteban Manchado (another guy from Grupo CPD, a debian developer and an expert on RoR) is teaching a course in ULPGC (Gran Canaria's college) about RoR with a great success. It looks like it exists great interest related with free software in the Canary Islands. We (Grupo CPD) have to develop more events in order to satisfy that demand.

Richard and I have been talking about wikis vs word processors. These conversations will help me a lot in a document I'm writing about this. On september he gonna come back to Tenerife for another conference.

After Santa Cruz's Carnival

After Santa Cruz de Tenerife's carnival, a huge party, the mEDUXa companies are working hard to finish the first phase or our job. We are putting a lot of energy on the kiosk mode, in order to build up two profiles for students, depending on their age. The first one is for primary school's kids and the second one for secodary's. Richard Dale, a KDE developer, is doing a great job.

Lately I'm using Akregator (a RSS reader app) a lot. It's a great application. I wonder why I didn't use it before. Now I spent each couple of days half an hour or so reading what's new on freshmeat. It's amaizing how many new apps are there. I have no time to try even 1% of them. Another application I recommend, based on my job experience, is Mediawiki. It is a extremely powerful application. I'm making it popular to the people I work with. Newbies like it. I feel like a "wiki preacher" sometimes.

Next week Grupo CPD is organizing two courses on the Canary Islands. One of them is called "Iniciación a la administración de sistemas Linux" (Introduction for the administration of linux systems). The second one is called "Introducción al diseño 2D y 3D" (introduction to 2D and 3D design). This second one is based on Blender. Linux is becoming popular here and people demand technical courses. Another guy from our company, Esteban Manchado, a Debian Developer, will teach in a Ruby course on Gran Canaria's college. We have another 4 courses planned before summer. As you can see, education is a major part of our job. If we want linux to become more popular, we need to teach people how to use it, right?

One of the members of the mEDUXa team, Pedro Gracia (Neuroomante SL http://neuroomante.com ), has began to work in Mare Nostrum, the biggest cluster in Europe. It is in Barcelona, Spain. It is big news for all of us and demostrate we have a lot of talent here on the Canary Islands.


Yesterday I installed Kubuntu to a friend of mine called Michel Ruiz. He liked a lot, I think. My mother is also using it. In future days I'll write about their experiences with KDE.

Tomorrow Ana María García will join to my company for 4 mothes, thanks to a college's program that is trying to improve tecnology in the Canary Island's companies. There is no doubt she will learn a lot from us. Hopefully we also learn from her experience. She wiil get involve on mEDUXa educational linux distribution.

That's enough for today. Thanks for reading this blog and put your comment if you want to.