Diego, el gnomo

Finally I’m back in Lima. GUADEC was really great and I owe a big one to the people that this year helped me get there.

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.

Fellow hippies,

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.

Looks like I’m not stepping my foot on Spain after all. Let’s see if I can still go to GUADEC @ UK.

Thanks to GCubo guys for all their help.

Description of the situation:

I got sponsored to go to GUADEC 2007, which is obviously this year, at Birmingham – UK. On the way there I’ll be attending GUADEC-es 2007, which is held on Granada – Spain (that’s where The Alhambra is).
Being a natural from Perú, I’m required to get a visa (no, not the credit card) for almost any country I want to visit, no matter the reasons.

Description of the actual problem:

I have to be interviewed by the spanish embassy to get approval for a visa, good thing: I’m good at words and being loved by people, bad thing: my appointment is for July 2nd.

Suggested solution:

Seek for someone with friends to get you in as fast as possible. This is were I am at.

Meanwhile, GCubo people (organizers of GUADEC-es) have been very kind and helpfull with all the paperwork I have to do, turned out they now have to invite me to Spain via a police station of the city. Funny.
Of course, gnome-uk people have also been very friendly with me. Paul and Thomas have been worried about my adventures with paperwork and stuff.

Many thanks to all of them!

And of course, the ToDo is still huge. But at least now I fell I know what to do next.

NP: Mar de Copas – Sol Soberano