GNOME « Diego, el gnomo

Archive for the ‘GNOME’ Category

FreeFA tournament

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

freefa in 2008

Remember, tomorrow (Thursday 9th July 2009), 15:00 to 17:00 ¹, is FreeFA.

Join in at around 14:40-45, join us in front of the main University Building. We’ll get to the pitch by foot.

Summing up:

Bring your football kit (trainers, or moulded shoes, shinpads)
Bring T-Shirts of different colours (at least a clear and dark one)
Show up at 14:40

The teams haven’t been set up yet, as we don’t know whether we’ll have smaller goals available (it’s currently setup as a full-fledged 11-a-side pitch).

If you show up late, you won’t be able to play…

¹: Might last a bit longer

Tags: freefa, gcds, guadec, soccer
Posted in GNOME, guadec, planetgnome | Comments Off

FreeFA cup 2009

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Every year brave players from the 5 continents gather together to define who’s the best in the deadliest sport there is: soccer.

FreeFA 2008

photo © by Alia and Zaheer Abbas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aandza/2653266909/

While in its already various years of existence the FreeFA cup haven’t yet taken any victim, we still like to think it’s quite dangerous and brave to play.

If you would like to become part of history books and be admired for generations yet to come, sign up now in the GCDS wiki (registration required on the main page).

Pack up your shinpads and football shoes, plus one or two colours of shirts you can sweat confidently.

Teams and time will be sorted while on the island.

Tags: freefa, GNOME, guadec, soccer, sports
Posted in GNOME, guadec | 2 Comments »

We need lots more of this

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Fully quoting Lluis Sanchez:

How to build MonoDevelop with Visual Studio in five easy steps:

Install GTK# (get installer here)

Install the Mono Libraries (get installer here)

Get MonoDevelop from SVN

Open main/Main.sln in Visual Studio

Press F5

And for everyone completely clueless about the important fact in Lluis’ post: No, I haven’t just said “we need more Mono!! yeah!!!1 OMG PONNIES!!!111eleven”.

Tags: developer, GNOME, gtk+, mono, windows
Posted in GNOME, planetgnome | 6 Comments »

If you are a GNOME Foundation member and want to learn some ninja skills and get free beers at GUADEC, consider joining the membership committee.
That good guy named Bruno (I’ve heard he lives in Brasil) made a call for volunteers just today.

If learning secret arts nor free beer gets you excited, you should know what the MC does: accepting new members, setting up elections (as in infra, not something else) and like every other GNOME team: just being cool. It’s a great way to get to know lots of new contributors to the project. See Bruno’s post for more info on this.

Don’t be afraid to participate, Bruno is completely inoffensive as you can see:

Tags: call, committee, GNOME, mc, volunteers
Posted in GNOME | Comments Off

Hello PlanetGNOME

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

My name is Diego Escalante Urrelo, although the full one is Diego Roberto Martin, but Diego is ok . I’m 21 and live in Lima, Perú where I work with some other guys to get new contributors to GNOME and other projects in what we call involucrate.org. I’m trying to change the world before it changes me, and in general I’m a good guy.

I have been contributing to GNOME since March 2006, I try to hack stuff that bothers me in general, but I’m more focused in hacking Epiphany, the GNOME web browser. I’m very proud of the woohoo bar that’s coming in 2.26 .
I also promote GNOME in conferences giving talks and organizing them. Lately I helped with Involucrate+GNOME in Lima and the GNOME Latin America Tour. Right now I’m serving at the Board of Directors (since December).

I like photography (although I’m not really good yet), sports (mainly soccer) and just having fun without hurting anyone, specially me.

You can find me on the internets:

homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~diegoe/
twitter: http://twitter.com/diegoe/
flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/diegoe/
mail: diegoe on everyone’s favourite mail alias, gnome.org

And in case you are Spanish enabled: my Spanish blog

Posted in GNOME, life | 3 Comments »

On Board

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I’m really happy and proud to say that I’m now part of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. .

I can only say that I’ll do my best, although I have to confess that I will be shameless in taking over the control of the Foundation together with Lucas in favour of our beloved Latin América.

Thank you everyone!

And my first official action is to appoint Bruno Balboa Boaventura as Board’s security.

Tags: board, bruno, foundation, GNOME, greatnews
Posted in GNOME, life | 2 Comments »

Evolution templates plugin integrated into trunk

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Thanks to the integration work by Bharath Acharya and the review by Srinivasa Ragavan, we now got Evolution template plugin (which I wrote some weeks ago) into trunk:

All this will be in 2.24 if nothing goes wrong (nothing should). So… yay! Maybe I’ll get a world-wide fan base now.

Kudos to Yannick for the original funding of my work.

Tags: evolution, hack, templates, trunk
Posted in GNOME | Comments Off

GUADEC nostalgia in NetworkManager

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I’m getting this sometimes at the venue:

Ah, the nostalgia.

Tags: bugs, lol, networkmanager, wifi
Posted in GNOME, guadec | Comments Off

PiscoParty at GUADEC2008

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

We will have our traditional PiscoParty at the reception party (at the university) Wednesday night. We’ll make PiscoSour and if lucky Algarrobina.

Drop by and grab a glass, there’s not much so… keep an eye on the Pisco Crew members.

Tags: guadec, party, pisco, piscosour
Posted in GNOME | Comments Off

The Istanbul Agenda

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

FreeFA World Cup: All the fans of the most beautiful sport in the planet, deep lovers of the most important thing among unimportant matters. You are invited to come and join us in the fight for the supremacy, Tuesday 8th, at 17:00 in Ayazaga Spor Tesisleri (be ready at the university -the GUADEC venue- at 16:00, a bus will take us there).
PiscoParty: Those among you that last year had the chance of enjoying the fun of making and drinking Pisco Sour, this year it’s not different. The Pisco Crew will serve you the finest cocktail of all GNOME. This time, with a special guest cocktail: Algarrobina.
CheapBastardFoundation Annual Meeting: For the first year, we are getting together to discuss our world domination plans. You are free to join us, but be warned that you’ll have to prove your cheapness.
The Latin American Complot: we can’t let those gringos get away with all the fun!. Let’s get together and discuss some ideas for our tasty and sunny continent.