Well, i'm getting the habit of blogging about non FLOSS things, this is about this morning discussion with a woman on the underground.
So that's the situation:
* I get though the entrance, a woman does too, two north-african get throught the entrance without paying
* Woman says "Here in Spain we do pay for the service!" in very loud voice
* The north africans think its better saying nothing and just continue their way
* i have a "Let's improve the world" feeling and try to argue with the woman
* "That was a bit of racist comment, don't you think?"
* "Racist? Me? No! What bothers me is that they are no paying!"
* "Yeah, that's what you said in Spain right?"
* "I did not even look at their faces!"
* "Come on, if it had been me you would have also said in Spain..."
* "Well, really i wanted to inform them, maybe they don't know..."
* "You really think they are utterly stupid and don't know they have to pay?"
And some more strange things she said i don't completely remember.
Maybe the woman does not want to be racist, but her subconscious is, maybe only a bit, but...
Friday, June 30, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Spying a bit on GUADEC
Today i went to Vilanova to assist to a few talks of GUADEC to see how our gnome friends where doing.
Today and tomorrow are the "warmup weekend" and most/all the talks where in spanish or catalan and directed towards the local people. I went to a dbus talk, 5 mins of GTK programming (where i thanked $DEITY that we do not use C for doing OOP), a talk about l10n of gnome to catalan (they seem to be doing a bit better in terms of number of translators than ca l10n team of kde) and a talk about the new distribution that will go into all catalan schools next year, based on Suse, using gnome desktop as default but also shipping KDE.
Some things worth mentioning:
All i all, is nice meeting/hearing people that have different preferences so you don't end up in self indulgence
Today and tomorrow are the "warmup weekend" and most/all the talks where in spanish or catalan and directed towards the local people. I went to a dbus talk, 5 mins of GTK programming (where i thanked $DEITY that we do not use C for doing OOP), a talk about l10n of gnome to catalan (they seem to be doing a bit better in terms of number of translators than ca l10n team of kde) and a talk about the new distribution that will go into all catalan schools next year, based on Suse, using gnome desktop as default but also shipping KDE.
Some things worth mentioning:
- They had rather big posters hanging on the outside of the buildings where GUADEC takes place, that is a GOOD THING and we should do something similar, AFAIK it was not done in málaga last year.
- They seem a bit more concerned about us that we about them, at least all talks i went mentioned KDE in some way or other, i don't remember that happening in Málaga (although maybe it happened)
- It is much nicer having the conference center in the center of the village, like GUADEC in Vilanova or this year's aKademy in Dublin, than in the outside like happened in Málafa
- Gnomies are normal people! WTF i thought gnomes where small people with a large beard!
- They had a nice o'Reilly stand in the main hall selling books, although some of there were not really ON TOPIC there (think JavaBeans)
- There was WIFI hotspots for all around, first time i listed available networks i thought "i'll go home with some hundreds of neurons less"
- There were very few power plugs
- Warmup weekend is free, but the core sessions are 30€, i think making contributors pay is not a good thing
- freenode IRC network was not working (probably due to too many people trying to connect from the same IP)
All i all, is nice meeting/hearing people that have different preferences so you don't end up in self indulgence
Monday, June 19, 2006
Shame!
Warning: This is not KDE nor FLOSS related, you can freely skip it if you don't want to read a real life rant.
Yesterday, in Catalonia there was a referendum to vote about a new statute of autonomy.
And more than 50% of voters did not vote, i feel shame for that. Not voting means you are out of game, you can vote yes, vote no, do a blank vote, put KDE logo on the voting envelope, or even put a photo of yourslef on it, but VOTE!
If you don't vote, you just demonstrate that you are nothing more than a drone, going to work, having some vacation, seeing world cup on TV and repeat, you can not express a "i'm dissapointed with politics" with abstention, you just demonstrate dullness of mind.
Yesterday, in Catalonia there was a referendum to vote about a new statute of autonomy.
And more than 50% of voters did not vote, i feel shame for that. Not voting means you are out of game, you can vote yes, vote no, do a blank vote, put KDE logo on the voting envelope, or even put a photo of yourslef on it, but VOTE!
If you don't vote, you just demonstrate that you are nothing more than a drone, going to work, having some vacation, seeing world cup on TV and repeat, you can not express a "i'm dissapointed with politics" with abstention, you just demonstrate dullness of mind.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
I rock :-)
Just saw on Adriaan's graph that i'm the oldest commiter with a 100% activity percentage :-).
Obviously i'm not the best commiter, coolo, dfaure, and mlaurent have to fight for it, but ei, i'm the first on something :-D. Cheers to markey for beign the runnerup on the oldest commiter with 100% activity!
More seriously, we might consider removing commit rights from all that oldies that only have a "square" for their first week and never ever commited anything more.
Obviously i'm not the best commiter, coolo, dfaure, and mlaurent have to fight for it, but ei, i'm the first on something :-D. Cheers to markey for beign the runnerup on the oldest commiter with 100% activity!
More seriously, we might consider removing commit rights from all that oldies that only have a "square" for their first week and never ever commited anything more.
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