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I will be back to Seville in less 36 hours, and I already can say that I had a great time in Oxford.

Meeting with all these software hackers, doing what they best do, has been a really amazing, unforgettable experience. I’ve learned more in this couple of weeks than in the last year, I’ve met a lot of interesting peope and, of course, I’ve had lots and lots of fun.

Thank you dudes. And good luck.

Sixth day in England, and I’m having a great time. I was in London for a couple of days (and a half) with two friends that are working there. London is one of those cities that does not sleep at all, and it smells funny. I took some pictures there.

Then I went to Oxford and today is the third day at the Canonical Conference since I was gifted with an invitation too. Everything these guys are involved with is amazing. The hotel is also wonderful and even food is good what is not trivial when being in England.

I’m just sniffing out here and will try to give some feedback to Debian (and it’s derivatives) from the Guadalinex userland. In addition, I try to squash as many bugs as possible for the imminent freeze/release.

OSWC almost over, I’ll write about it and what we did in the I dDebian meeting:

It wasn’t a really hard week, though at work we are reaching a good limit of per week hours of stress. But the weekend withouth family at home contributed to reduce that. Reading a lot and listening to good music. Hmm, I should implement The Pila

Last Wednesday, we uploaded a new revision of Mono, because the last one depended on libicu26 which is not in SID yet. Also, monodoc is already in NEW, and a new upstream revision of gtk-sharp was uploaded too. Wish blam! will be soon up there, it rocks the blogs.

And next week, the OpenSourceWorldConference will be a hard but really fun event. Heh, we’ll even have a royal presence, our sacred Spanish prince will open the conference. Take a look at the congress center

See you there!!!

As I already wrote some days ago, the OpenSourceWorldConference is real soon now, from 18th to 20th of February in Malaga, Spain.

And, as I also told, the GuadaLinEx team willed to organize a meeting with other Debian based distributions and with the Debian project itself, and regarding how they interact with each other and with the main project. So, after several days of social networking, we got financiation for it from the Junta de Andalucia, the regional government who is affording the GuadaLinEx project.

After the meeting, the main idea is giving back some feedback to debian-devel and try to improve how the infrastructure for Debian based distros work.

We have just made a webpage, (thanks to the Plone project for making such a good product that allows making a nice webpage in an easy way), with some more information: assistants, provisional schedule, etc.

If you are going to Malaga and want to talk about this interesting workgroup, don’t miss dDebian !!!

Today was a hard, but fruitful, day.

Firstly, in the morning, I had to burn several CDs that we gave to the press a bit later, during the GuadaLinEx press conference where the project, which is a bit more than a distro (hardware standardization, Free Software courses, etc.) has been presented to the press.

In a month or so, several thousands of CDs will be delivered all over Andalucia with the newspapers, in the Internet, in schools, etc, etc. GuadaLinEx is based in Debian, works as a live CD thanks to the MetaDistros project, and we try, together with the LinEx project to avoid duplication of work. We expect about two million users in about a year and a half, when the distro is in all the schools and most citizens computers. Yes, that means two million Debian users. A great userland.

After that, I was with other folks from ADALA and HispaLiNUX in meeting with politicians of the Junta de Andalucía (regional government which is developing and leading the GuadaLinEx project) talking about the posible ways of spread the free software philosophy, GuadaLinEx and so on.

Later, we were having a couple of beers and tapas and talking about the Open Source World Conference which is going to be held in Málaga next February 18-20. It’s going to be a really interesting congress.

Of course, there will be a Debian meeting there, regarding how Debian derivated distros (LinEx, GuadaLinEx, SkoleLinux, the Greek project) can feedback all the users and developers experience to Debian. I’ve already invited people from SkoleLinux, from Greece and tbm and I’ve contacted other developers I’d like to be there and see what we are doing. You can come too, Málaga is a really nice city!

Wow, it has been a too long entry, I’m sorry.