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31 Books, 13360 Pages and Counting
Dec 15, 2010One of my New Year’s resolution for 2010 was the ambitious goal of reading one book for every week of the year! In other words, to read a total of 52 books for 2010! I knew that it would be very hard to complete this resolution without cheating and choosing thin books but I figured: “Aim for the moon, that way, even if you miss you’ll still be amongst the stars!
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Dec 13, 2010Spent a good chunk of my free time reading all 9 (out of 10) parts of Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Organist this weekend! I don’t know where to begin to describe how incredibly awesome this comic is! The graphics, the clever writing and jokes, even the sometimes absurd plot twists all combine for delivering a fantastic, fun reading experience!
I highly recommend that you read at least a few episodes and allow yourself to wander around the many links and tidbits about Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Quasiamicable Pair, musical instruments, math and many other items in the notes section!
GNOME Foundation New Members: December 2010
Dec 10, 2010Just passing along the information sent by Andre Veri on behalf of the GNOME Membership Committee to announce our new members (in no particular order):
Zachary Goldberg (PyGi, Zhaan, Bug Filing, UPnP Hacking) Sebastian Dröge (GStreamer, Debian packaging) Sumana Harihareswara (Marketing, GNOME Journal, Empathy) Jelle de Jong (Bugreporting, Debian packaging, Marketing, Testing) Christer Edwards (Sysadmin Team) Pablo Castellano (Buoh maintainer, Bug fixing and Triaging for Seahorse and JHbuild) José Aliste (Gedit-plugins, Evince) Daniël van Eeden (Dutch Translations and GUADEC 2010) Francisco Diéguez Souto (Translation to Galician language, Coordination of Galician language) Jeremy Perry (GNOME Shell design) Thank you all for the splendid work, dedication and support you have shown and welcome to the GNOME Foundation!
Boston Summit 2010: Day 2
Nov 10, 2010I got back from the Boston Summit around 22:00 Sunday evening and by the time I arrived home from the airport I was too tired to write up a blog post. Then Monday morning came and after all the meetings, work and side projects, I decided to spend some quality time with my kids, as I had not seen them since Friday evening.
The second day was very busy and full of things to do and interesting discussions.
Boston Summit 2010: Day 1
Nov 07, 2010Finally sat down to write down about my first day attending the Boston Summit 2010 but Paul [1] and Jason[1,2,3] already beat me to it. From my perspective, it was really nice to finally meet face to face with some of my fellow Board members and make new friends!
I want to thank Novell for hosting us at their office for our Board meeting (there should be a picture of us posing in front of a Novell logo) and our gracious host.
Let Me Hear Your Voices
Nov 03, 2010This weekend I’ll be attending my first Boston Summit, courtesy of theGNOME Travel Committee! It will also be my very first time meeting my fellow members of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, which makes me very excited!
I wanted to ask you, readers of my blog, what kind of questions would you like me to ask on your behalf? Do you have any constructive comments or feedback for us? What are the areas you feel that we should invest more of our resources on and which ones should we spend less?
Ending Another Chapter
Nov 01, 2010Woke up this morning to find the following email in my inbox:
Renew membership of Og Maciel in Ubuntu Members
It’s been a while since I last thought about this membership so this email had me thinking for a bit. Ubuntu is where everything started for me, and even though I have not seen eye to eye with Canonical, I harbor no ill feelings toward the distribution itself.
So for the last 5 years I’ve been associated with the Ubuntu ecosystems and dedicated a large chunk of my time trying to get the distro properly translated into Brazilian Portuguese and doing a lot of advocating along the way.
Are You Planning a GNOME 3.0 Launch Party?
Oct 29, 2010In order to promote the GNOME 3.0 launch and spread the idea amongst the GNOME community members, I’m sharing the following message! Please translate it and share it with your friends and help us organize the biggest GNOME Launch ever!
Dear GNOME friends,
The GNOME.Asia committee is working on making a big launch party (which includes a 5 days hackfest) to celebrate, promote and work on the GNOME 3.0 release as part of our effort to promote GNOME in Asia.
Boston Summit 2010
Oct 20, 2010I’m also coming to the Boston Summit for the first time! I’m looking forward to hanging out with my fellow Board members, meeting some of them for the very first time. I’m also looking forward to attending the Snowy Hackfest and other sessions related to GNOME 3.0!
Think you can join us? Take a look at the GNOME Foundation blog for more.
Helping the Belarusian and Esperanto Translations
Oct 10, 2010Thanks to comments by booxter and Patrick Niedzielski, I have added support for 2 more languages to Pylyglot: Belarusian and Esperanto! So far I had been adding languages according to their translation percentage, starting from the top and slowly moving down the list, but it probably makes sense to add some of the languages that need a bit of help catching up with the other teams and provide them with a means to check their standardization.