AlmaLinux Summit + CentOS Connect + FOSDEM 2023

Last June I joined CloudLinux to work on the AlmaLinux Build System (hereinafter ALBS). Since then, I was feeling like my contributions to the AlmaLinux community could be a nice excuse to bring my blog back to life, and here I am. But let's get straight to the point, because last week was an exciting …

Cloud4all/GPII presentation at LSM’13

For all of you who are attending the LSM'13 in Brussels, my colleague Christophe Strobbe and I will be giving a talk about the Cloud4all project and how we are contributing to build the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) personalization framework. It will not be a very deep 'tekkie' presentation but we will talk about the major components we are …

GPII on Fedora 18

As part of my participation on the Cloud4all project, I've been working on packaging the 0.1 release of GPII. This is because we need an easy way to install all the components and required dependencies for the end-user. With this, we will be avoiding an end-user from dealing with git and/or installing some dependencies by …

GNOME + Beers = GBeers

GBeers is a world wide initiative for GNOME meet ups with lighting talk presentations and beers! Want to read more? Want to organize GBeers in your city? Check this out! The first GBeers was in Madrid, and last thursday, we meet a few GNOME lovers in the Emergya office willing to start this initiative in …

The return of Linex

In 2002, the Extremadura government (Junta de Extremadura) decided to end the monopoly of Microsoft in its region due to the expenses of its licenses. To do this, they decided to create a Debian-based distribution designed to cover the needs of home users, government or schools with GNOME as the desktop environment. Linex was born. …

Heading the Cloud4All first pilot rounds

This week we're starting the preparations for the first Cloud4All pilot rounds, whose will start in January 2013. In this first pilot round we will focus on: Testing the early version of Cloud4All semantic infrastructure Testing the Semantic alignment mechanism Comparative testing of 3 types of watching algorithms First round of SP Applications This first …

DBus module for Node.js

As part of the initial code for the Cloud4All project, we already have a GSettings bridge for to handle some desktop settings, but we needed a mechanism for to deal with other behaviours/settings of the GNOME Desktop, and DBus fits here. The endline for this implementation isn't too close, but we're already making the Cloud4All …

Resumen del primer Coud4All/GPII Implementers Workshop

La semana pasada mi compañero Alejandro Leiva y yo estuvimos por tierras austriacas con el motivo del Cloud4All/GPII Implementers Workshop and Hack-A-Thon. La cita concretamente tuvo lugar en la Universidad Johannes Kepler, situada en la tranquila ciudad de Linz, al norte de Austria. Allí, se dieron cita el equipo de arquitectura de Cloud4All junto con …

Here we go!

For all those who don't know, it will be an A11yCamp this year at GUADEC, and as Juanjo Marin said in his announcement in some mailists: "A11yCamp is an unconference designed to help improve GNOME Accessibility wherever we can". So, as a Gnome Accessibility Team member, I encourage *you* to attend this event. We have …

Accerciser 3.5.3 released

I've just published a great release of Accerciser, the first unstable one. Accerciser 3.5.3 comes with a lot of bugfixing, and new improvements too. As a brief resume: Joanmarie Diggs fixed the macaroon's script recorder Joanie and I fixed some i18n UnicodeDecode problems I fixed a problem where accerciser failed to start on F17 Now, …