That’s right, once again I could count on Igalia‘s kind support to be able to go to this great conference one more year.
Just like last year, I’m giving two presentations:
* Making the printed world accessible: A11y in OCRFeeder, in the Accessibility DevRoom on Saturday at 11:00;
* Grilo: Integration of Multimedia Contents in Applications Made Easy, in the CrossDesktop DevRoom on Sunday at 13:45.

This will be my fourth time attending FOSDEM and every year I love it more. In what other conference can you attend presentations about: GNOME, MeeGo, Django, Accessibility and much, much more. And let’s not forget about the Friday Beer Event, that allow us hackers to socialize while sipping on the finest beers on earth. And of course, to some of you, I don’t need to tell again how much I like Brussels, and Belgium in general.

By the way, this year there is a new, more Maemo-ish, FOSDEM Maemo app called Sojourner which will help you schedule the talks you wanna attend, so, be sure to install it in your N900. (I’ve contributed with a couple of patches last Friday, which are pending integration )

Other news from my part is that since last week I am a member of GNOME Foundation. It’s been a year since I started developing OCRFeeder under GNOME’s infrastructure and I finally decided to apply for membership. The process was really easy and I thank the folks involved. It’s good to be around such good hackers.

Hope to see you all FOSDEM next weekend!

I have my blog syndicated in Django Community since a while now and I’ve always respected Django Community’s rules by only having Django related posts appearing there, that is, by making good use of the Django category/filter have syndicated there.

Today, I’ve realized that many of my posts unrelated to Django have appeared in Django Community. Trying out the category I originally set for this, I see now that it doesn’t work anymore; I don’t know what changes I did to the blog but the mentioned category is broken and so, it defaults to all the posts…
I am surprised nobody complained about it to me.

To correct this, I’ve just sent an email to Jacob and asked him to please update the feed to the correct one.

I’ve always respected the guidelines of the planets I’m syndicated in and I am sorry for this mistake. Let’s hope Jacob fixes it soon.

One more year, Igalia will give me the chance and the pleasure to attend GUADEC one more year, this time in Den Haag.

My fellow Igalians Iago, Alejandro Piñeiro and José Dapena will give talks about Grilo, Cally and Modest 4, respectively.

As for me, I’m hoping my lightening talk about Text Prediction on GNOME gets accepted.

So, as usual, if you wanna talk about GNOME, OCR, Input Methods, Grilo, Django or Free Software in general and have beer while we’re on it, come along!

Hope to see you in Den Haag.

Last Friday I gave an introduction to Python as class in Master in Free Software.
In this session I tried to cover Python from the very basics to decorators, properties and PDB. All covered only as an overview, not in deep detail.

After the introduction we did a simple PyGTK application to list the files from a folder the user gives it; it will hopefully come in handy when they start to develop their project’s UI.

So I’m sharing here the presentation I created for it. If you’re thinking of learning Python or have started learning it recently it might be helpful for you.

… and also, this year I giving two presentations there.

I’m presenting OCRFeeder in the GNOME DevRoom and SeriesFinale in the Embedded/Mobile DevRoom!

I just love FOSDEM, the spirit of it, the number of important Open Source projects in there and the city of Brussels!

If you wanna have a chat about OCRFeeder, SeriesFinale, Hildon Input Methods, Rancho (for Django folks), Igalia or other important Open Source projects, while drinking a nice Belgian beer, let me know!