I’m very excited to announce that I have taken the role of committer for the Brazilian XFCE Team! I bring to the table my background as a translator for the GNOME team for the last 9-10 months, as well as my background as a translator and former leader of the Brazilian Ubuntu Translation Team (and some minor contributions with the Brazilian KDE Team). I want to take the opportunity to properly thank Adriano Winter Bess for kindly stepping down as the pt_BR translations maintainer, and allowing me to take this role.

foresight-notification-theme Originally uploaded by kenvandine This one goes to Jonh Wendell who made the suggestion last night! Critical level notifications will have a red band on the left; Normal will sport the light green you see on this screenshot, and Low will have a light tan color.

Over the weekend my next door neighbor managed to damage the passenger side door of my Honda when he parked too close to my car… That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that it was the second car he’s damaged in the last month… also mine! Now, he’s an older professor from UNC who has been very nice and polite ever since we moved to Chapel Hill, and I let it slide the first FIVE times he scratched/dented my Pacifica… but enough is enough!

I wanted to comment on Tristan Rhodes's latest post before but didn’t get a chance. Last time I checked he had received 56 comments on his suggestion to “unify” the Ubuntu name (and by unify he means to avoid the proliferation of several different distribution versions, that distinguish themselves based only on the window manager installed by default). I must tell you that I have to agree with him, mainly because I feel that the many [U|X|Ku|n]buntu out there could be very confusing to an end user who’s decided to check out GNU/Linux for the first time.

My last post brought in a few interesting replies, the great majority of them showing support (somewhat) to the idea of unifying the Ubuntu name. While I let the caffeine surge do the talking toward the end of the post, I should have added the following statement to completely close my argument: I’m not suggesting that we stop manufacturing/shipping/distributing the other “flavors” of Ubuntu in the form of CDs and downloads.

Lunch time here at BarCampRDU, and the food selection was AWESOME! We had a great variety of Mediterranean food and it reminded me a lot of the food we have at the Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill! Good opportunity to chit-chat and goof off, specially if you happen to sit next to devnet!

The second session titled “Building online communities”, or something like that, drew in a considerable group of people who were mostly interested in the social aspect of it. It was fairly interesting how the problem people were complaning about could be moderated by something like the Ubuntu Code of Conducthttps://launchpad.net/codeofconduct! Great session and Luishttp://tieguy.org/ had a great analogy as for how a community should work like a well thrown party! :)

Or something like that! My buddy Ken Vandine will be this year at the GNOME booth at OSCON. If you’re around, stop by to say hi, learn more about GNOME, Foresight, and get some swag, like the GNOME LiveCDs! ;) By the way, did you notice Foresight’s new flashy logo? (apparently Flickr didn’t like the transparent background?)

Start them young! :)

I was extremely pleased to see my application for the GNOME Foundation approved. I have spent the last 9 months working very closely with the localization teams, making sure all work being done by the Ubuntu Brazilian team is submitted upstream first for all GNOME packages! I’ve also been very vocal about a unified Brazilian localization team, completely distro independent. I want to thank all of those who put in a good word for me.