Archive for November, 2006

Eog-Ng: Putting Hightech Glasses on the Eye

November 16, 2006

I’ve received some emails from people interested in helping on EOG development. EOG is a very nice project to start contributing (in the GNOME context) because it’s a simple and useful application. I’ve
written the plans and related tasks for Eog-Ng on this wiki page.

EOG is old in many senses: its code, its look. In the last two release cycles EOG received a lot of love and some very-wanted features were implemented. However, there’s a need to rethink about the future of EOG in terms of its code (deep refactoring/recoding needed) and features. There are some design problems in the current code which are seriously affecting EOG’s stability. Eog-Ng is a branch which aims to agregate all development work related to what we want from EOG from now on. Eog-Ng main goal is to maintain a very solid and stable core with the very basic feature of an image viewer but with support for some extensibility

For everyone interested: contributions are always welcome! Follow the general instructions on Eog-Ng page, assign yourself to one or more tasks, discuss the solution where applicable and hands on code!

Give some love to EOG today and have a better GNOME image viewer tomorrow! Let’s make EOG rock your world!

GNOME Journal submission deadline

November 11, 2006

The GNOME Journal is preparing for another great new edition!

Join our We-tell-the-world-about-GNOME-and-it-rocks club, and find the love of your life! The deadline for submitting articles is December, the 1st..

The next edition is going to appear on December, the 15th 2006. General information about the GNOME Journal, the submission guidelines, an other stuff is available in the wiki.

Don’t forget to add you article to our article submission queue! Do this within the next 24 hours and win flight tickets to Saturn. :-)

Importante note: GNOME Journal is urgently needing regular writers. Tip for all GNOMErs (journalists, users, developers, lovers, all this at the same time, etc): if you’re planning to blog something more structured (be it an opinion, a tutorial, an application review, desktop feature review, development tips, etc) this is a good chance to submit an article to GJ! GNOME Journal reaches a different (and very important) audience from our mailing lists, GNOME Planet, wikis, etc. It’s about reaching the “outsiders” with high quality GNOME-related content. Let’s make the GJ’s december edition rock!

GNOME Song Contest Idea

November 11, 2006

I have this idea of promoting a contest to choose the GNOME Song. IMHO, this is kind of activity promotes community integration and helps creating passionate users™. Also, having a GNOME Song would be cool for marketing stuff! My intension is to put the several recordings of GNOME Song from several people around the world in the GNOME CVS repository. l10n work could be done on recordings with translated versions of the lyrics. Isn’t it awesome!?

I’ve prepared a draft here. This is far from complete/stable. I want suggestions about the submission process and how to rate the submissions. Also, not sure about the best release date yet.

Comments?

PS: Jono, this could a great oportunity for Jokosher to get more users. You could release a tutorial teaching how to easily record melody submissions only with rocking free software. :-)

Carol@Mundo, finnish food, and other stuff

November 10, 2006

Carol’s blog
Carol, my lovely wife, created a blog (in portuguese) to post her impressions about our daily life in Finland. Check out her first post!

Finnish food impressions
I’ve received lots of comments (well, much more than I expected!) on my last post about my first finnish food impressions. Actually, I received support from many people at work. Funny to see the finns defending their food in such a positive way! Actually, I’ve received some cool restaurant suggestions. tigert, Zetor is in my top list for future dinners, let’s go there!

PS: If someone considered that post arrogant or felt offended in some way, please don’t. Those are just impressions from a foreigner, nothing more! :-)

Nice coincidences

Carol in front of "Carrols"

Drinking czech beer (Velkopopovicky Pivo) at Chico's

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