Diego, el gnomo

(No matter I didn’t filled GNOME bug #500000)

I filled bug.#500000
(and behdad dupe’d it)

So I installed Debian Sid and found out that -among other numerous bugs I found- caps lock led gets turned on and off no matter I’m using that key as compose key.

I’m used to see it always off. Now it annoys me with the constant blinking :). Any ideas lazyweb?

Yes, after being encouraged by some people, I finally decided to do it.

A quick cut-n-paste from my mail to foundation-announce and foundation-list:

Who am I?
I’m Diego Escalante Urrelo, I’m peruvian and I’m 20 years old. I’ve been using GNU/Linux since I was 14. I’m a GNOME user since 2.2 days (I confess I hated 1.4 :)) and a GNOME contributor since 2.14 days. Probably we exchanged one or two friendly words (or maybe kicks if you played the soccer match) in GUADEC last July. In GNOME I’ve worked on Epiphany, the Accounts team and Busquad. Locally I’m an active member of DebianPerú, a LUG right now devoted into getting people involved into Free Software projects.

Why am I running?
I feel that right now I can help GNOME more being on the Board doing administrative tasks than hacking, I’m not a rockstar hacker and I’m not planning on becoming one the next year and a half.
My experience working as a coordinator for DebianPerú has taught me a lot about working with people, public relations and administrative stuff.
I see myself as a motivated, creative, energic and (sometimes) perfectionist person, I’m sure this skills can be useful to the Board.

What do I plan to focus on?

• promoting and supporting more people getting into GNOME in Latin America
• transparency of the Board
• putting attention into details

Some more thoughts

• I want to help in the Board because I feel that as a hacker I’m far less productive than as an administrative guy.
• I confess that I’ll help the Latin American Mafia to take over GNOME.

So, what’s going on? Where is the people, I just wrote to the Cookbook list suggesting the following roadmap or actions:
- Discuss and propose the “content layout” of the book
Which are the sections? shall we include X or Y thing? how are usual cook
books organized? shall we use gnomey names on the sections?)

- Find and set the way we are gonna put all the content together,
I’m a total ignorant of collaborative editing so my only guess is that using
GNOME’s svn and some format like the one used for documentation or that
would do it, we would only need to use our template over it and it would be
ready.

- Start putting the content together
This is obvious, I would like to see some way to get feedback from people
without them needing to checkout the latest book source or something like that
Ideas welcome, but it would be cool to have feedback over the receipts of a
major audience than us, the footware chefs.

- Translate, beautify and publish it!

I humbly think they are in big terms the goals we should set or the milestones we should try to achieve. But I have to ask, where is the people? Everyone has just vanished!.

I’m hungry, let’s make a kickass book and let’s publish it before GNOME’s 20th anniversary :).