By public demand, we’ll be keeping Seth’s awesome animated hackergotchi during the GNOME Usability Hackfest week when he’ll be blogging more often. Cheers!
Archive for February, 2010
lucasr.org
February 20, 2010
I’ve just published the “0.1-alpha” version of my new website. I definitely plan to do some incremental design improvements but I’m quite happy with the initial state of things now. Working with WordPress was a very good experience: a lot of Free themes and plugins, easy to extend and customize, etc. It was funny to mess with PHP code again, after 5 years far from any real web development. For some reason, PHP felt quite annoying. Maybe it’s just because I’m not used to it anymore. Dunno.
The front page is inspired by Vimeo’s front page textual updates (if you’re a Vimeo user, you know what I mean). They list all updates in one paragraph that appear on top of the page content. Feels quite natural, less techie, more human. Maybe a bit more verbose, but that’s fine. Anyway, I applied the same approach in my website’s front page by having a short dynamic paragraph that is generated from the data fetched from the web services I use for blogging, microblogging, books, music and photos.
I won’t be posting anything in blogs.gnome.org from now on. I’ve already updated Planet to aggregate my new blog. Comments on the new website/blog are welcome.
Resigning from the Board
February 17, 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot about what to do about my participation on GNOME Foundation’s Board of Directors in face of the fact that my wife and I are expecting our first baby in February. After careful consideration, I decided to resign. I want to be fully focused on my family (especially in the first few months) without feeling bad for doing Board stuff while I could be with my family or not doing Board stuff while I’m spending time with my family.
So, considering my priorities now, I feel that I would be more useful to the Board by stepping down and letting another person with a lot of energy to take my position on Board for the rest of this mandate. The Board has decided to appoint Jorge Castro to replace me. He’s highly motivated and I’m sure he’ll give good contributions as a member of the Board.
I’ve had a great time in my two and a half years on Foundation Board. It was a great way to support the community in several ways and to work with some very nice people. The GNOME Foundation is getting better everyday and I feel very proud to be part of it.
New EOG maintainers
February 06, 2010
It’s been quite some time that you Felix Riemann and Claudio Saavedra have been doing all the development work in EOG and I think it’s time to pass the ball to them. So, this is just to let everyone know that I’m officially passing the EOG maintainer post to them.Thanks Felix and Claudio for the great work!