Desde hace unos tres años vengo trabajando con wikis y LaTeX como herramientas básicas de generación de contenidos. Aunque sigo usando el procesador de textos en algunas ocasiones, e imparto cursos ofimática, soy cada vez más escéptico frente a la utilidad real de esa herramienta.En España, y en otros países, está generalizada la idea de … Continue reading Visión crítica de los procesadores de texto frente a los wikis

Vemos en la foto, de izquierda a derecha, a Gonzalo Aller (gerente de Fotón, del Grupo CPD), Lars Ellebretch (de la Fundeación Apache), Antonio Larrosa (desarrollador de KDE) y un servidor. Fue sacada en la pasada Conferencia de Software Libre de Málaga, en febrero de 2006.No se nota demasiado, pero nos lo pasamos la mar … Continue reading Imágenes de Gonzalo y un servidor en Málaga

Atendiendo a algunas peticiones de lectores para que escriba en español, quiero hacer unos comentarios sobre la conferencia de Richard Dale en la ULL.El pasado jueves 23 de marzo, la dirección del Centro Superior de Informática y la SSL (Secretaría de Software Libre) de la ULL (Universidad de La Laguna) invitaron a Richard Dale a … Continue reading Conferencia de Richard Dale en la ULL

Richard Dale has spent some days in Tenerife. I have had the chance to be with him most of the time and the only thing I can say is that it's been a pleasure. Richard is the number one in his job (Qt-Ruby) but also a great guy.We have been trying to figure out how … Continue reading Richard Dale in Tenerife

After Santa Cruz de Tenerife's carnival, a huge party, the mEDUXa companies are working hard to finish the first phase or our job. We are putting a lot of energy on the kiosk mode, in order to build up two profiles for students, depending on their age. The first one is for primary school's kids … Continue reading After Santa Cruz’s Carnival

At the end of the conference, we went to eat at the same place we did the days before. I met Michael Wechner and Lars Ellebretch, from Apache Fundation. After lunch we took the bus and went back to the residence. We tried to prepare a presentation of mEDUXa in Gonzalo's laptop. Although back at … Continue reading Friday afternoon at Malaga Conference

The last day in the conference was also very interesing. We assisted to the last conference. I had the guts to ask a question related to the future role they visualice that small freesoft companies can play in the comunity. The answer wasn't satisfactory, although they pointed some interesting comments.Me and Gonzalo Aller showed a … Continue reading Last day of the conference

Two kids mounted on a motorbike tried to steelmy laptop. They couldn't. Back in the conference place, I talked with a couple of companies to offer our services.I've talked with workers from some companies thata assisted to the conference.I assisted to the conference that Javier Bustamante and Francis Pisani gave (don't remember the name of … Continue reading Second day in Málaga’s Conference (thursday afternoon)

In the morning we woke up late. Yestarday we had a nice party time. We tryed to assist to Alan Kay's presentation. There was too many people and the conference room was too small. We tryed to talk to the organization so they change the location of the conference. They gave us no solution. Many … Continue reading Thursday morning

I assisted to Michail Bletsas's conference. But I arrived late so I didn heard the hardware part. It was a nice conference. Meanwhile a talked with the Miguel García Capilla, from XOOPS project.I've been talked in the afternoon with KDE developers, the developer of Quanta Plus, Andras Mantia, a developer of KDE PIM, Till Adam, … Continue reading Wednesday afternoon in Málaga (first day)