Openbox 3.5.0 was released yesterday, and with it several bugs got fixed and a few new features were added. Out of these features the one that I liked most was the ability to add icons to menus (and submenus as well)! Yeah, I know some other managers already do this but for someone who enjoys running Openbox because of its simplicity and keyboard binding limitless possibilities, I was sure glad to see some eye candy make its way to it.

[caption id=“attachment_56” align=“alignleft” width=“199” caption=“Aline Duarte Bessa - Accerciser”] [/caption] Another episode of my Castálio Podcast, this time with Aline Duarte Bessa, another Brazilian who is participating of the GNOME Women Outreach Program (GWOP). Even with a fever, cold e technical issues getting a working system to record this show, she was gracious to spend some of her free time and tell me about her current task of updating the developer’s documentation for Accerciser.

The idea of doing a podcast is something that has tickled my [STRIKEOUT:curiosity] fancy for quite some time. As a matter of fact, I am already the survivor of 2 other mildly successful attempts, which sadly, died prematurely due to commitment issues from my partners and my inability to record and edit audio using Linux. About 6 months ago the need to scratch this itch came back in full power, and thanks to the support of my friend Evandro Pastor, Castálio Podcast was born!

After debating for the last couple of months about re-organizing my two blogs into a more intuitive (perhaps logical even?) format, I finally took advantage of some down time over the weekend and made a few changes. From now on, www.ogmaciel.com will no longer be my blog written in English, but instead will serve as a “business card/window” into my world. My “English” blog is now hosted on en.ogmaciel.com and my “Brazilian Portuguese" blog lives on pt.

I had a chance to interview Igor Pires Soares from the Fedora Project and chat about how he got started with translations, participating on several organizing committees and his travels around the world! He talks about getting lost in Chile, learning English and Spanish, the role his university played on his career, his top 5 books, movies and his interest in music, including a very special moment during a U2 show in São Paulo.

Howdy fellow GNOMErs! I’d like to invite you all to join us once again for another GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting! When: Wednesday, June 15th, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (your local time) Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation Foundation IRC meetings are just that, meetings held on #foundation in irc.gimp.org to discuss current matters related to the GNOME Foundation. Any GNOME Foundation member or non member are welcome. As long as you contribute positively to the discussion you are welcome.

Tomorrow marks the 20th year that I have been living in the United States. Not to use an old cliché, but it definitely feels like it wasn’t too long ago that I embarked on the greatest and most dramatic adventure of my life: at the young age of 16 (only a handful of weeks shy of my 17th birthday) I said goodbye to most of my friends back in the small town of Conceição da Barra, Brazil and got on a plane with my youngest sister bound to New York City.