This weekend I’ll be attending BarCamp Raleigh for the second year in a row. Together with a couple of fellow rPathians, I’m planning to pitch in the following talks: Building GNU/Linux appliances and deploying them in the clouds How to participate and contribute with open source projects like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Openbox, etc If you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to register in time for the event, tomorrow there will be a get together (think drinks, snacks and all the trilug geeks you can fit in a bar) at Tyler’s Tap Room (map).

As some of you may know, I’ve been doing a great deal of testing for rBuilder Online, rPath’s online community service for all your GNU/Linux appliances needs. As a QA Enginner I have a chance to play with the most innovative technologies we create (and dare I say some of the coolest things in the system/package management world?) before it hits the general public. It is because of this work and my recent super involvement with our products that I decided to create a videocast on how to create a virtual GNU/Linux appliance using rBuilder Online.

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Enquanto eu carregava 10,000 fotos no F-Spot ontem à noite, me perdi nas memórias de pessoas, lugares e eventos que vieram à tona… tudo começando com o nascimento da minha primeira filha Yv. Escolhei a dedo algumas fotos do primeiro ano dela e criei um álbum. É inacreditavel como o tempo realmente voa… ela vai completar 7 anos no final do ano!

[caption id=“attachment_519” align=“alignnone” width=“300” caption=“Yv Scarlett Maciel: the first year”][/caption] As I uploaded 10000 pictures into F-Spot tonight, I got lost in the memories of people, places and events that they brought back… everything starting with the birth of my first daughter Yv. I cherry picked a few pictures of her first year and created a set. It is amazing how time does fly… she’s going to be 7 at the end of the year!

I’ve been using Ping.FM to update my Twitter and Identi.ca accounts for the last 2 weeks. That is all good and great but I needed a way to read the replies and feeds from those 2 accounts as well! My “solution” was to keep 3 tabs open in my browser and periodically refresh those pages to see if there was anything new. In comes Gwibber. It wasn’t until last night that I found out we had it packaged in our repositories (the WebKit branch) so today I decided to give it a go.

Agora eu posso finalmente falar sobre minha grande novidade: Eu estou voltando à escola este outono! Todo mundo que me conhece sabe o quanto eu queria ser um Tar Heel! Existe algo sobre a Universidade de North Carolina e Chapel Hill (cidade onde moro) que me faz sentir que aqui é o meu lugar. Desde a primeira vez que eu vim aqui eu me apaixonei pela cidade, pessoas e lugares… e eu sabia então que um dia eu ainda iria chamá-lo de minha terra.

I can finally talk about my great news: I’m going back to school this Fall! Everyone who knows me well knows how much I’ve wanted to be a Tar Heel! There is something about the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill that makes me feel like this is where I belong. From the very first time I came here I fell in love with the place, people and places and I knew right there and then that one day I’d be calling it home some day.

Uma captura de tela do meu desktop no laptop do trabalho. A configuração atual tem o Openbox com uma tonelada de atalhos de teclado, PyPanel, Twitux, Glipper, Gajim e GNOME Xchat. Adicione o Terminator com vários paineis, Epiphany e Rhythmbox (ausentes na captura) e você tem todos os aplicativos que eu uso no dia a dia.