Zenity 2.12.0
This is the final Zenity stable GNOME 2.12 release. News:
Tiny hack
I had some spare time in the last days, so I had a quick look at the EOG critical bugs for GNOME 2.11/2.12 and fixed one of them.
Music
Luis suggested me to listen to Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” album. Well, I liked it, very good one. Specially the “Concierto De Aranjuez” songs. Though, the album is too much “classical” in some ways. I liked “Bitches Brew” more. :-)
Last week, I played with Pã twice. Good shows. In the other band, Paroano Sai Milhó, we’ll start recording our 4th album. The recording process per se is very repetitive and tiring but the end result is always compensative!
Readings
I’ve been reading some interesting books about democracy and ciberspace:
Work
It’s been hard to me to have to work on things (mainly web development) that I don’t feel almost any pleasure. I wish I could work on GNOME more (quantitatively and qualitatively), this would be REALLY great. Well, just dreaming…
Gift and Free Software
I’m reading some basic work about the “gift” sociological Marcel Mauss (anti)-paradigm. I strongly suggest reading this Godbout introdutory article (in portuguese). Those who are involved in free software communities will have lots of insights about why we hackers do what we do. Mauss paradigm seems to be the sociological aproach that best explain lots of aspects of free software culture.
Tiny hack
I and my great friend Aurélio hacked firestarter to fix a little problem.
It’s been a long time I don’t post anything. So, here are some stuff I’ve been doing.
Music
After a short talk with kmaraas on IRC about GNOME and musician hackers, he created the GNOME Musician Index at l.g.o. GNOMusicians, add yourselves there, so, we can have a huge jam session at GUADEC 7!
GNOME
The last development Zenity “Muqueca” release (2.11.92) before GNOME 2.12 is out! Here are the news:
EOG was crashing when navigating through a directory with invalid images. This bug is solved now. :-)
Mastering
I’ve finished a little paper (in portuguese) about Free Software and Ciberculture. INHO, this paper is not good yet but the deadline forced me to release it.
Google Talk
Congratulations to Google for using jabber open protocol in Google Talk. My account is lucasr.at.mundo gmail com. Feel free to add me. :-)
Movies
GNOME Desktop Workshop
I gave a workshop on GNOME Desktop as part of FACED’s Free Software Week. I got very happy to see some teenagers from Alto das Pombas (a very poor place) in the workshop.
I looked for some ready-made slides for this purpose but I didn’t find any. Maybe I’d be good to have “official” slides for GNOME Desktop workshops.
New “All we need is love!” Zenity release (2.11.91). Again, almost nothing new – we’re feature (and, from now on, string) frozen.
New and updated translations (thank you dudes!):
You can get it here.
My head
Two days ago I had the worst headache ever! I think the cause was something I ate in lunch…
Movies
Music
Mastering
I have to write three articles in the next 40 days! Oh shit, I need to hurry…
New “Almost there!” Zenity release (2.11.90). Almost nothing new:
Get it here. Enjoy!
I created a zenity maintenance page in GNOME wiki to keep track of potential development tasks for 2.13.x releases.
Spent this weekend having resting and watching some cool movies:
I’ve migrated zenity to use gnome-doc-utils. So, now It should be easier to translate zenity manual. Go, go, go translators!
Bad news today:
I and Carol saw the following movies:
I played some days ago in Canavieiras (a litle city near Salvador) with Paroano Sai Milhó band. Paroano Sai Milhó is one of the most traditional carnival groups of Bahia – more than 42 years of existence. We play popular brazilian songs and rhythms like ijexá, samba, frevo, galope, baião, xote and many others. Canavieiras is a beautiful place. Here are some photos:
 Canivieiras has wonderful beaches |
 Snake found in the beach |
 We play dressed as clowns |
 People that saw our show |
New Zenity “All night long” (2.11.1) release for GNOME 2.11.5 Development Release. The news are:
You can get it here (md5sum: 3c8fa30d6621686cbce5a7593310bb5c)
Enjoy!
I and Carol watched a movie called Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and others. Not great, just cool. In fact, most of the american movies I’ve seen were just cool or worse. They seem to be all the same! There are exceptions of course! :-)
I’ll begin to write an article called “The Ciber-sociality in free software development communities” as part of my mastering research. Sociality (I don’t know if this english translation fits) is a Maffesoli sociological concept to define the new tribal, hedonist and vitalist social aggregation form that arrises in the post-modernist society. The empirical reference for this article will be the GNOME community. So, I hope you all help me with some semi-structured interviews on IRC or e-mail.