Bad timing. I’ll be travelling in a few hours to Valparaíso, Chile for the 10th Encuentro Linux and Día GNOME 2009. I’ll be giving a small talk/workshop about some cool stuff you can do with WebKitGTK+. I gotta say I’ve stolen content from Xan López, Gustavo Noronha and Christian Dywan’s talk at Gran Canaria, don’t blame me, it was a nice talk.

I’m focusing in examples so I hope the code I’m producing will prove helpful as a base for more talks, I’ll try to translate it to English and upload it somewhere visible . Many thanks to Encuentro Linux organizers for sponsoring my ticket and accommodation.

On Saturday, I’ll be speaking jointly with Pedro Villavicencio about the GNOME Community and how cool it is and why you should join. It will have interesting info, comments and, of course, photos .

This year I’m glad that two new peruvian GNOME contributors are travelling with me to meet with the GNOME Chile people and enjoy their first GNOME-related conference. Sergio Infante, triager and GNOME Hispano IRC talks organizer, together with Juan Rojas, patch maker and tester, will be talking about the good and bad of involving with GNOME: what can we do better, what are we not doing, etc. Their talk is really promising for me, since they have a much better point of view than any of us, since they are new contributors. They are travelling thanks to the GNOME Foundation financial support of DíaGNOME.

So, if you are in Chile be there. And whether you are there or not, wish me better health! :^).

This March 7th and 8th, as part of the involucrate.org project, Lima will host an international FLOSS event that for the first time gets together the real actors of its development.

involucrate+GNOME is the name of this event, and despite the name makes the topic clear, there will be participation of diverse other FLOSS projects.

Thanks to the support by the GNOME Foundation and our generous sponsors, this time we’ll have the presense of developers from GNOME (Chile, Colombia), Dokeos from Belgium and peruvians from projects like Debian, Ubuntu, PHP, FreeBSD, GNOME, among others.

The website has more details about the schedule and the speakers, whom will be eager to share their experience and knowledge about this wonderful experience of contributing to FLOSS. There will be time for BoFs and hack sessions.

The event will have Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Computo y Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Lima – Perú) as its venue.

Participation is free of charge, as long as you register yourself. We are waiting for you!

-involucrate.org Team

About involucrate.org
involucrate.org is a project coordinated by DebianPerú with the goal of promoting the participation of new peruvian contributors and developers in FLOSS projects.

Through the creation of spaces, momentum and ways that facilitate a close experience with the real actors behind FLOSS. We are looking to help create a point of reference, a model, that can lead our country to be noticeable in the worldwide FLOSS map.

It’s also a good excuse to repost the poster:

In case you like it so much you wanna print it, then you can grab a higher resolution version in Involucrate.org.

More news soon!

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So far so good, investors have shown interest in providing financial backup to the event, materializing this offers is expected to happen next week.

Local intertubes media startup Inventarte has already agreed to be one of the media partners for the event recording a live show of their usual video material, interviews and lots of fun expected. “I would even dress up as Konky for the interviews” said Impagable’s Carlos Wertheman. No organization team member wanted to confirm the existence of a Konky costume or plans for getting one, they didn’t deny it either.

Another successful local startup focused on recording events and conferences, Eventos en video decided to once again show their support for free software providing the talk recording service. The conference videos will be freely available in their site for everyone to watch and learn. On exclusive for The Travelling GNOME, Laura Anaya said that the company “has plans to produce a Behind the Conference tv series, a reality show, and this might be the perfect chance for doing it”.

One of the conference organization members confirmed that international speakers are about to confirm their travelling dates and talk topics, he assured that the schedule would be publicily available next week. “They are surely coming, 2 of them already started walking this way” -said Diego Escalante.

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