More and more people is now using KDE 4, and specially non technical people. Since KDE4 is improving fast but do not have yet all the features and apps that KDE 3.5 did, it is easy to think that old KDE users will have many requests or questions the following monthes. Since the usability of … Continue reading Social networks… a new challenge and a new risk for software libre projects
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GCDS Conclusions II.
What has been the impact of the event worldwide?This question has different answers. I'm going to concentrate today on the GCDS website.We presented the project to the Call for Host on a public wiki. Usually both boards recieved a .pdf archive. Since the decision to go for one particular location was made by both communities, … Continue reading GCDS Conclusions II.
Aprendamos de José Tomás
Para mi el hit del día es sin duda el lanzamiento del N900 de Nokia con Maemo. Lo es no porque hablemos de Nokia o de Maemo. Para mi lo es porque hay desarrolladores españoles, empresas españolas, de ASOLIF más concretamente, detrás.Porque para algunos la innovación no se mide por el tamaño de la empresa, … Continue reading Aprendamos de José Tomás
GCDS Conclusions I
I've taken some time to write down about the event. This is the first post of a serie about the event I pretend to write. It is a personal view, although I know many of these ideas are shared by other local team members, since we have disscussed them before.I would like to begin thanking … Continue reading GCDS Conclusions I
Ilusión y realismo
Cuando se inicia una aventura, es normal que se generen grandes expectativas, sobre todo, si ésta es innovadora y arriesgada, pero a la vez, con posibilidades reales de tener impacto significativo en un entorno concreto. Esa energía inicial debe, no obstante, contar con dosis altas de realidad, que no frustren, sino que canalicen, toda esa … Continue reading Ilusión y realismo
Nothing in particular…
I'm sitting in the backyard of my grandfather house, in a little village, by the mountains, in Segovia, Spain. It is called Matabuena. Here it is usually cold except in July and August. Just a few families live here in winter but the place gets alive during summertime, like many little towns all over the … Continue reading Nothing in particular…
How do your company do it?
Many of the ASOLIF companies have different ways of distributing the workday. Others simply do not have any way at all. Another group has a 8 to 5 schedule.Reading Jorge's blog, from Warp Tech (a well known ASOLIF company from Zaragoza) planet (in spanish), I come out with a nice distribution that solves some of … Continue reading How do your company do it?
Quemad a Judas, azotad a los empresarios
Nuestro Presidente criticó con dureza a la patronal de empresarios, y muchos de los voceros del reino aprovechan estos días para dibujar al malo malísimo de la película de un modo simplista. La búsqueda e identificación del culpable de la crisis no está siendo, desde luego, una labor digna de la Sra. Fletcher o Colombo. … Continue reading Quemad a Judas, azotad a los empresarios
¿Quiénes somos?
Durante mucho tiempo el movimiento empresarial relacionado con el software libre no ha salido en la foto. Al igual que ocurriera con el el movimiento técnico primero, y el movimiento ciudadano/social después, las empresas han venido desarrollando su actividad sin generar demasiada controversia, madurando y creciendo, creando nuevos servicios, nueva tecnología, nuevas formas de organización … Continue reading ¿Quiénes somos?
Interactions between soft. libre communities and small free soft. companies
Free software communities are becoming more and more efficient in tasks not directly related with code or self organization. They are evolving into totally new organisms without predecessor. Companies are aware of that and they are getting closer and closer to them. Right now the free software impact cannot be described without the interactions between … Continue reading Interactions between soft. libre communities and small free soft. companies
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