Just like a teenager who’s about to get his driver’s license for the first time, I was as nervous as one can be early this morning (14:00 UTC), while attending my first Ubuntu Council meeting. One of the subjects to be discussed was my possible membership to the Ubuntu Members Team. Topic after topic were brought up and dealt with… and as the minutes passed on by, I could barely remain calm… I was afraid I’d choke during my presentation and not say anything useful, but then… a huge calm came over me… and I spoke!

Tomorrow will be a very important to me! At exactly 14:00 UTC I’ll be presented to the Ubuntu Community Council for approval to become part of the Ubuntu Member Team! I have spent quite some time helping out the Brazilian Ubuntu community these last 2 months and I think I’m ready for the next level of involvement! The meeting will take place via IRC and I can barely wait to see what comes out of this!

It is with an enormous pleasure that I come to announce the birth of PhPlanet, the first (if I’m not mistaken) 100% Open Source blog agregator written by a Brazilian for Brazilians! Using the Planet program as source of inspiration, PhPlanet already shows many new features such as: Web based administration: Add feeds (authors) Approve feeds enrolled for the site Modify authors' information Add, remove and/or edit Hackergotchis Feeds (RSS and Atom) Archiving of all posts for later retrieval (MySQL) Registration of new feeds Sending of posts via email (optional)… For a complete list of the all innovations, check the project’s home page and take a look at the live demo page (sure, it is written in portuguese but check out the functionality).

This is a couple of days late, but worth to mention anyhow. This last Wednesday I was invited to attend the monthly Northern NJ MySQL Meetup meeting. It took place at the local Panera Bread in Paramus and I had to drive like a lunatic through traffic, afraid I was going to be late for it. Turns out traffic wasn’t as bad and I managed to arrive 30 minutes earlier.

When: Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 8:00 PM Where: Panera Bread 165 Rt 4 West Paramus Place Paramus, NJ 07652 201-368-0752 What: We’ll be doing a small MySQL 5 installfest! Bring in your laptop, desktop, hell… bring in your server rack too! Join and reserve a spot here.

Thanks to Clint, I now have a good list of advice for raising my child! Since you’ve been filling up Planet Debian with you “literary work” these days, have you considered possibly a new career?

Browsing Flickr the other day for pictures tagged with the word “Linux”, I came across the screenshot of a tool for uploading pictures to your Flickr account from your desktop. Now, I know F-Spot can do that too but this one seemed to be so simple! I haven’t had a chance to test it yet, so… head on down to the developer’s web site and check out how to download and install it!