About today’s outburst, I have the following to say: The GNOME Foundation has established a democratic process by which its members and directions can be chosen. If a process or person has not delivered that which was agreed upon or expected (due to a role), that is the price one pays for democracy. Please, let us not lose out cool and take advantage of the system to do what is right for the Foundation.

This last week has been but a blur to me due to the holidays (Thanksgiving here in the US) and my house being full of relatives who came to visit from upstate New York. With the exception of a patch I sent (and committed by Jonh, thanks!) to bugzilla, my time was spent doing the following: Following and answering the questions that were asked for those running for the GNOME Board of Directors (I’m one of them).

So yesterday I finally managed to find some time to send in my application to run for the GNOME Board of Directors. Now back to your regular program…

A couple of updates before heading out to the weekend: Been working hard together with Fábio Nogueira on the XFCE translations before the eminent 4.4.2 release. Things are looking really good! Tonight I was feeling a bit adventurous and took the pre-alpha Foresight 2.0 KDE Edition and installed it at home. Like I said, I was really feeling adventurous and installed the x86_64 bit version too, and so far everything looks good!

… or for the “real” kids, three fun educational games that are guaranteed to be a big hit! GCompris (highly recommended for younger kids!) Super Tux Kart Tux Type 2 (highly recommended for younger kids!) BE WARNED: Once your kids play these, there’s a great possibility that you won’t be able to use your computer for many hours! :)

For those who noticed my sudden disappearance from the web late last week, I was attending FossCamp in Boston as a Foresight Linux representative as well as representing my own interests in the localization arena. Unfortunately Ken could not make it and I was left with the daunting task of talking to people about conary. My flight was pretty peaceful with a quick stop in NYC where I met up with my older sister.

Quick series of small family related news. If you’re looking for tech stuff, skip this post. :) Before flying to FossCamp, we carved a couple of small pumpkins in preparation for Halloween. This will be baby Kate’s first Halloween and it was also the first time I carved a pumpkin. Yv was very pleased with the final result, specially when we turned off the lights and lit some candles.