After spending a week in Sunnyvale I’m back from the UDS. It was a long trip and I can definitely say out loud that it was a fantastic experience, very hard to put into words, part of which you’ll be able to see in the video-recorded sessions (available soon?).
I gave speeches on 3 projects of mine: Xorg Options Editor, Tablet configuration tool (the project doesn’t have a name yet), Display configuration tool (no name yet). I’ll blog about these projects as soon as I clean up the relevant specs and the wiki pages. It’s been an extremely productive UDS and (in addition to these 3 projects) I think I have already work for Jaunty+1 (and maybe Jaunty+2 too). The feedback I received was really great.
The Silicon Valley is exactly as I expected (if you played GTA San Andreas you know what I mean) and I really liked the place, which is very different from the European towns I visited.
The UDS is all about people (apart from serious development) and I met a lot Ubuntu enthusiasts. I met some old friends and made a lot of new acquaintances. Actually the term “acquaintances” doesn’t do justice to these extremely nice people which therefore I’ll promote to “friends”:
mv acquaintances friends ;)
Having studied Spanish (together with English) at the university, I had a great chance to practice my Spanish with Ara, María and Luis and I also bugged them with some notions of Spanish Linguistics that I learnt. Do you see the irony? An Italian guy who talks to native Spanish speakers about some peculiarities of their own language 😉
I also received a lot of hugs and ended up in the Ubuntu Hall of Fame. I really didn’t expect to see myself on that page, therefore I was very surprised when Bryce showed my picture and the article on his laptop. A lot of people congratulated me on this achievement but all I have to say is simply that it’s the Ubuntu Community that really rocks. I have yet to find another community which makes you feel not only at ease but perfectly integrated, as in a very big family. It’s definitely something you have to experience (at least) once in your life.
I won’t list the names of all the people I met since I really wouldn’t like to flood Ubuntu planet but I would really like to thank them all for being so nice to me and for making this UDS even better than the one in Prague (which I deemed impossible).
A special thanks to Google for hosting the event at the Googleplex (Mountain View). It’s a really cool place and I met Guido Van Rossum (yes, the creator of Python) there. I told him that I started learning programming thanks to Python and he joked about it by replying that he was sorry that his language made me enter the programming world. A very cool guy.
A big thanks to Canonical for sponsoring my travel and to all the people who made this possible.
Muchas felicidades!!!
Bien merecido por todo el trabajo para ayudarnos con Ubuntu.
Saludos
“ablet configuration tool (the project doesn’t have a name yet),”
Does this include wacom and digipro drawing pads or just like touchscreen stuff? ..’cause I have a digipro and if you need any feedback or help testing stuff, I’d be glad to help when I have the time. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll have time to build the new 0.7a1 wizardpen X input driver and if that goes well I should be able to consider packaging it.. In any case, let me know if you need any assistance.
ethana2@gmail.com
Congratulations! I think you are worth!
But… let’s go man… we are waiting for envy dealing with the latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers – cause we are so lazy do install it manually…
If I was a NVIDIA/INTEL/ATI CEO you would be my employee.
Muitas felicidades e tudo de bom neste próximo ano são votos deste brasilerio para você.
May the Lord Bless you!
Fernando.
Brazil.
Hi Alberto,
I hope you are well.
It was great to meet you @ UDS.
I really like your blog by the way
See you soon.
Maria