Next Friday morning I’ll be flying to Brussels to attend FOSDEM for my second year.

I’d really like to thank Igalia for this opportunity. I loved Brussels and the spirit of Open Source that was spread during the event last year and are really looking forward to attend some nice talks this year as well.

I was a bit sad though to find out that almost nothing will be related to Python/Django. Anyway, it will surelly have a bunch of quality subjects covered and I’m excited to go check them.

Two days ago Nokia announced that Qt will have LGPL as a license option for its 4.5 version (to be released in March).

I am a proud GNOME user and a GTK fan but I must recognize the power and flexibility of such a framework as Qt and I am glad it will now be available with a more permissive license. Of course it also kind of makes one think about the old GTK/Qt matters… we’ll see how stuff gets handled. Another important question is also what is the PyQt move? Will it also have the new license option?

The 3rd day of this month, a new step towards Python‘s perfectness was taken. Python 3.0 (or 3000 like is most known) was officially released.

Like the good old Python style this version breaks up with many of the stuff used before but this time it is an even deeper break as this is the version that corrects some of Python’s design issues. For example, Python stands for conciseness but before this new version, the print function was not concise with the function’s definition:

print “text”    instead of print(“text”)

Since this might be an issue, a 2to3 converter script is available to minimize eventual headaches when porting your software. On top of this, the performance was improved at about 30% which means Python will continue kicking, for example, Ruby’s ass in what comes to speed.

See what’s new in this Python’s version.

Let’s hope for a big acceptance of Python among its users and get big projects like Django and PyGTK supporting it!

Update: It seems I got it wrong about the performance improvement… Sorry fellow Pythonistas, my bad! See the comments for an explanation.

Nokia‘s N97 has just been released!

With its features you end up really wandering why to buy a netbook if you can get one of these.
Here you have a video showing it off:

Since a while ago I started a project with friends to develop an Open Source group/project management tool with the best web framework out there – Django!

Today is the day! Rancho 0.1 alpha is out!!!

Rancho goal is to make it easy for any company or group of people to manage its projects and people.
Here are some of Rancho’s feature:

• Clear and simple graphical user interface
• Wikiboards that provide collaborative editors that also keep old versions
• Exportation of wikiboards to several formats like PDF or HTML
• Multi-lingual
• Companies to group people
• Threaded messages
• ToDo lists
• Milestone lists
• Files with support for versions
• Simple users management
• E-mail notifications for actions within the projects
• Statistics of every item in every project
• Powerful permissions system

Go ahead and download Rancho from here or try a running demo here. Both the user name and password are ‘admin’.

In case you like Rancho, give us a hand and help us translating Rancho to your language.

For this or for questions, feedback, etc, please write to us using the contact form here.

Have fun with Rancho!