In case you sent me a million dollar offer or something really important, this is why I haven’t replied.

Sigh.

For the curious, my proposal is finishing and enhancing the web UI for the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS for short). Which is a great system but lacks some features that as a GNOME developer have learned to love and, from my humble point of view, think that Debian would benefit from. If you have ever used Debian’s BTS after getting used to GNOME’s Bugzilla, you know what I mean.

Regarding this great news, I’m also happy and confident to say that I’ll be able to keep up with GNOME and Debian work without a hitch. Lots of engineering went through my head to ensure I’ll be able to give my best in what I’m currently doing.

Also, my dear friends Marco Villegas and Manuel Cerón (of LunarEclipse fame) got selected for Drupal and Mono respectively.
Marco will be creating the infrastructure needed for Drupal.org to go the git way and Manuel will be doing some MonoDevelop crack (actually a visual class designer).

It was a great day!

PD: Hello Planet DebianSoC! perhaps you want to read a short intro of myself in this old post.

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

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.

Can’t wait to smellsee you all!

Cellphones and phonelines died for almost 3 or 4 hours after the Earthquake. Luckily I was able to communicate with my family via SMS. I’ll need to update their communication skills so they can use Internet which was the ONLY service that was still working. Police even had to use a local radio station to broadcast some info to the policemen.

Right now it’s 4:30 AM, no idea if I’m watching live coverage on local TV (maybe it’s just a rerun of earlier coverage). But hell lot of chaos. 155 people have passed away and 1300 is the estimate of injured ones.

You can follow up the event on Wikinews. Also some info is being archived on the Wikipedia article about the Earthquake. Also El Comercio, the biggest local newspaper, has a lot of coverage on its website (that looks pretty cool btw).

And yes, it was on GNOME’s 10th birthday . Well, time to get some sleep but before I’ll put some stuff on my survival kit (which, guess what, includes my N800).

I’m amazed of how in this short time I have came to know a lot of cool people and friends, people that live in the other side of the world, people that live on my neighbour countries. It has been a really great experience, and I’m sure I’m not gonna regret having spend my time meeting and working with such fantastic people.

Remembering all this makes me home^WGUADEC-sick, I can’t wait to see you all next year!. That also reminds me that some days ago, after watching Harry Potter I thought: “hah, GUADEC is like my Hogwarts” LOL.

Thanks to all that people that has helped me answering my questions, smacking me in the head, reviewing my patches, carrying me out of the pitch like a bag of potatoes, etc. I really owe it all to you guys!.

Among the remarkable things of this week, I can bullet point the following:

• Vincent is a cheater, his ice cream was way smaller than mine. We’ll see next year who wins.
• Bastien can now sleep, since he has this photo to counter this other photo.
• Thanks to Richard, Etrunko, Fernando and red-team-guy (Chema?) for taking me to the nearest trash bin so they could keep playing, also thanks to the medical team composed of random players.
• It was great to know a lot of people, a LOT!. But it was also great to know new people like Sílvia, Gil, Benjamin, Michael, Shreyas, Manuel, Ádám, Daniel… the list is really big!! Greetings to the Cheap Bastard Foundation founding members.
• I’m featured on the es_PE translation of bug 455415. Andre’s contribution takes the prize however.
• I’m using Ubuntu again, due to practical facts.
• Pisco Sour was a success, everyone liked it except the ones with fobia to egg white. Receipt to be released as FreeDrinkware soon (so J5 can put it on The GNOME Cook Book).
• My luggage is still somewhere in Amsterdam thanks to KLM. They say it will be here tomorrow.
• I couldn’t help buying this while being in Amsterdam’s airport:
  
• Got a lot of biz cards, I really like collecting them . Got a few coins too!.
• Lima is too cold , I miss the hot 14C of Birmingham, here there’s cold 17C (yeah I know, makes no sense).
• People here forgot to pick me up yesterday on the airport, they say they thought I was coming back today.

Also, I’ve uploaded almost all my relevant pictures to Flickr so you can check my set: GUADEC2007.

I’m going to GUADEC this year. I just got my UK visa. I’ll be seeing you the whole week and of course being sponsored I’ll be at Etap. More details later.

Thanks to GCubo guys for all their help.