Bajan Beach
From my point of view, 2009 has been an extension to 2010, basically a stronger development of projects on the professional task of making OpenOffice.org a viable project with independence and more robust roadmap. This year I establish the OOoES as a legal entity, I celebrate contracts with first clients, and got structure an organization.
This year I came close to become a part of the OpenOffice.org Community council and finally gave a talk at OOoCon2009. As a matter of fact I had 4 talks of OOo including some projects where I am playing a key role including OOo4Kids, ODFKit, and OpenOffice.org Certification. With more experience also dealing with people and a more ‘closer’ attitude I hope that 2010 continues my education on making and starting deals.
In basketball I lower my exercise but also came back to be a passionate NBA fan and following my team thanks to online video I was able to follow last season as well as the current. I was able to record my first video playing basketball in a while and also got a new ambition to go back into competing.
On the traveling side, I was able to go to many places, including Barbados, Barcelona, Canary Islands, Brazil, Rome and United states. I was able to travel also withing Mexico and also got in touch with some friends I haven’t talk in a long time. I got to meet long time friends like Leandre and felt happier of having someone to care for.
Technologically speaking I didn’t accomplish more except of maybe keeping trace of whatever is hot including, html5, Google technologies, and some more python.
This year I got to hang a lot more with old friends from school including Victor (College) and Lalo (high school), Alejandro (high school) and now working together on doing something that could be interesting. Also I saw how hard life was for some of my friends and many others I wasn’t able to meet at all. Actually I am quite surprised this year there wasn’t many meetings from friends. However I was able to meet a new community of friends that we share the same passion for technology through the twitter network, we are further getting together to come out with cool stuff to do together including a vidcast and now we are thinking on a network. Another group of friends might come from another acquired passion which is hiphop which this year was rewarded with an unexpected comeback to the Wu renaissance with Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Pt II and Ghostdini. But a whole crew here in my hometown became visible enough for me to catch the show and maybe even be part of it in the future.
I still burning for an unmatched desire to come back to Europe and stay for a while, same thing in the U.S. and unfortunately I haven’t been in the position to do this, I hope next year I would be able to breakout. I also hope to meet new people and continue my good relationship with my friends. I also hope to get back in shape and workout and also improve my overall health and lifestyle improve in quality.
Tags: 2009, 2010, arji, barbados, barcelona, basketball, brasil, certification, cleveland, college, Europe, friends, google, lalo, lebron, linux, nba, OpenOffice.org, podcast, rome, technology, twitter, us, vidcast, wu-tang
Tomorrow I will be at the first hiphop show in my city, I am very excited and plan to be there and enjoy a good hiphop evening. Myself being a long time hiphop fan with figures such as Biggie, Raekwon, RZA, Method Man and Mos Def, I am basically proud that I will be able to finally come into what hiphop is all about. well to be honest I am not having such high hopes and I have been about hiphop in the past since living in the US and being able to listen to Mos Def, and Ghostface perform live, also lived in Mexico city where underground groups also performed, however this is the first time something like this happens in Villahermosa.
Some groups will be here from other cities around and I wonder how they sound, I will probably buy their cd’s or whatever they have on sale just to give back to the movement. I have heard some rappers already on youtube and have already some songs from the Internet, they rhyme mostly in Spanish and one doesn’t sound bad at all. Unfortunately the rest seem to be more limited and don’t really sound that hot. Then again I am glad this is happening and I hope to do some networking.
Looking forward to it… will report back.
Tags: agresor, ghostface, hiphop, method man, rap, rza, south cartel, villahermosa
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So during my trip earlier this year to the Dominican Republic, I met a teacher that was serious about making a difference. With a lot of effort trying to bring people in the country for the event, he personalized and took charge by bringing us together into the same table and having an open conversation about how to bring the open source proposal and bring it to the highest people int he university.
The meeting was ver interesting since it brought many latin american personalities into the open discussion on how to best show the potential of open source in the educational environment and why is the best thing for the university to adopt it. This video also brings some interesting points about how careful we should be with free culture and how can it radically impact on many different ways the current society.
The conversation unfortunately is in Spanish and even thought this is a mostly a blog in english I still want to bring it to the attention so there could be views appointing to what the values should be.
Tags: cosecol, creative commons, dominican republic, education, floss, free culture, free software, OpenOffice.org
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Conference is way too boring in Berlin, so the marketing efforts where pretty bad. Too technical and too boring.
Openoffice.org takes over the personal productivity suite. Microsoft is driven to a collaboration suite, which is not a personal, anymore.
Sharepoint stack push the collaboration environment into the organization.
They have five groups on facebook.
Invite journalists into newsletter, also within vertical market.
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So a few days back I sent this email to the OOoES community in support for the ODF file format to support it on the Google translate upload feature. The upload features allow the user to translsate documents as opposed to URLs or chunck of texts. Adding support for ODF will allow the users to have larger pieces of text translated and also be able to be more productive.
To let the Google translate team know, they have a form up on their Help files for suggesting features. I will encourage the users to remind them that is a good idea to have support for ODF because is an open standard for docuemnts and that many governments and companies around the world are currently migrating to and also that there are many tools already avialable to provide that support like ODFpy and ODFToolkit.
Jazz is one of my favorite musics, I really love the way sax sounds and the mellow instrumentation that is played in between is really a concert of pretty high melodic notes with very surreal loop of almost indistinguishable sound. So has my work been today, just a full amount of work work work. However I have been very productive today. Beside the regular email replied I finally got to audit one of the last guides, and even thought there still one to go, this has been almost the conclusion of my project.
Next up is the work with OpenOffice.org localization and more exactly, pootle. The Pootle localization tasks this period has been extremely intensive and the strings that showed up look almost infinite. However with some free time and good music on the background and even with the help of The Computer Action show. It helped me gain some sense and if not concentrating on the work at least distracting me enough to not feel the huge amount of time dong mind numbing tasks.
Yesterday I was able to finally watch on of the most anticipated movies of the year, I have been waiting for this movie since July and nothing happened, not even now October, almost to be over 2009. The movie even if it shows on tv now, I still haven’t had the chance to look at it and what is worst, it seems that it will take just another week or to to show. So I finally went on-line and got it. The movie is awesome, the plot, effects and everything in between didn’t disappointed. I do believe there was some level of racism but in general I think the whole movie was about exactly that.
All in all I had a very productive weekend even if I didn’t got to go much away from my room I was able to finish many things that I have been procrastinating and feel better now that they show some significant development.
Tags: entertainment, l10n, localization, movies, OpenOffice.org, podcast, pootle, work
For my spanish speakin buddies, there is a new course for Linux Beginners. The course will be carry on top of the moodle platform and registration is free.
Here is the original invitation:
Hola: Es para informar que están abiertas las inscripciones para el nuevo curso gratuito que se dicta en LinuxesLibre. Este curso es para los que recién comienzan con linux, así que tal vez no sea para nadie del grupo, pero sí para amigos y conocidos. El curso se dicta totalmente por la web mediante un programa llamado moodle que es un verdadero colegio virtual con lecciones, evaluaciones, tareas, etc. Para inscribirse http://linuxcursosgratis.org/cursos/login Para ver los cursos como visitantes http://linuxcursosgratis.org/cursos Para ver el indice de temas del curso básico http://www.linuxeslibre.com.ar/cursos/mod/resource/view.php?id=6 Inviten amigos y conocidos que puedan estar interesados y recuerden que los cursos son gratuitos. saludos Andrés Beny
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So I am finallyin Mexico and I have been doing a lot of work lately with what I felt that needed some. I have had meeting all along with some of the issues regarding the Open for business initiative, also the ODFKit and the deals with the Valencian government.
I have also been interested with the things going on at UX and have solidify my position on getting rid of the upper toolbar. Another project which I have driven my attention is webdev which did a recent upgrade on the wiki and it affect the template from OOo.
I wonder if I should update my wordpress theme to the OOo site type of theme. I really like the way that theme blends and is a very cool factor. I also had done this in the past fo the mediawiki and would like to see it on my site. Plus the wordpress community could benefit from it.
Finally I am trying to get back in touch with the contacts from Brazil and make an impact and an alliance. The program RCSLA is one of the projects about sustainability on free software development.
Well seems that plans keep coming and I will need to be developing them for as far as I can.
Tags: free software, OpenOffice.org, skins, theme, wordpress
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This is these conference day of the talk and we got Aaron Newcomb on the talk about using video to communicate about Open source software. The first day was more about the expo, this one is more about the conference, not that the first day had no conferences, but I wasn’t very aware of them until the very end.
The talk on Aaron talks about video blog, and general video on the web, with free software of course. Talking about cinerella and other video tools.
The issue of flamewars and other issues that make things simpler and less analog. Open network system live with John Fowler Aaron talk about Lumiera which is a new project about video editing. So seems that we could use more and better apps into Linux. OpenMovieEditors another app also useful to do video editing.
After the apps we looked into the codecs and transcoding tools about the different formats including Theora, H264 and other video transcoding tools.
Aaron went on to do a demo of the video editing tools with cinelerra and how he do some of his editing. He took some recording of the conference and then he replaced it with some external audit track.
The final part of the talk was more about the web services to manage videos.
Tags: blog, OpenOffice.org, sun, the source, theora, video
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BrOffice team
The first day started with me on the air on my way to Sao Paolo, departing from Mexico city at midnight I arrived to Sao Paolo at 11am, just in time to get on the flight into Porto Alegre.
When I arrived to the city I was lucky to find it easy to arrive into the conference even before arriving to the hotel. The conference was great, I was able to chat with Knut from Qt and was a great small chat. I also got into the OOo boot which help me managing my lougage and suite.
I got to chat with many people but not as much as before since they mostly speak portuguese. I have manage pretty good to know my way around people, however still feel like they dont understand what I say when I speak.
I went to one conference where I met back with one government official from Sao Paolo, Marconi, who recognized me instantly and I was pretty surprised. Since I got on the afternoon, I couldnt attend to most of the talks, however they were enough. My only problem is that I havent found many governments or companies from out of state which would be my main target.
At night I had some issues finding my hotel but eventually got to it and enjoy a good rest, which I was so tired I couldnt go to the Bar.
Tags: brazil, broffice, fisl10, floss, jza, OpenOffice.org
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