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I just give it back to KDE at least some in return of all i received in all last 10 years. Please, if you in some ways had KDE improved your day by day , help to fund Randa meetings. Read More

This has been an very different year for me, but so far so good, things happened and despite the crazy itinerary to get the most "almost" cheap tickets...

Hello blog, long time no see :-) In last few months, Collabora, my employer, moved me and a team of good hackers to a mission of enable in some way automatic open source tools, code and libraries on top of AOSP ( Android Open Source Project ), and with our central focus are Wayland, Gstreamer and Pulseaudio, and a bit with Qt5 before, but this for later and will be some personal project soon. Read More

Another year, my first Desktop Summit, plenty of things to do, gstreamer training, help organization, even be a referee in a geek football match. Crazy days ahead. Leaving sunny Florianópolis right now !! Read More

I've been last week in Concépcion, south of Chile to attend another nice open source conference, been the second brazilian around ( Sulamita Garcia beat me first :-). But for me was special since last year we have finally some latin american KDE communities giving life signs, and i would expect that take more time to have they start to appear strongly, even more most of latin america been a strong Gnome supporter for years. Read More

So, as looking that everyone is in the hiring mode... Yes, Collabora is hiring. So if you are passionate for open source, want join a company that share the same passion as well, want to work from any place in the world and have at least some of these skills below, then we want to know you. Read More

Brazil's copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use Chile becomes first country to guarantee net neutrality Software Now Un-Patentable In New Zealand What is your country is doing for you ? Read More

Long time, no post... So, this probably is the first post from the multimedia sprint, after an interesting internet setup which a fire alarm was a crucial component :-) Read More

Amazing Blog This is the amazing idea that came with Amanda from the new local KDE-MG group. Simple, beatifull and the most interesting way to get conference people to enjoy your booth, put his ideas out of the mind and getting everyone close. At this picture, you see Tomaz ( no tap dance included ), and the board, saying ODEIO ( I Hate ) on left and AMO ( I Love ) and everyone can express their feeling about our beloved project where we can improve it or not, writing a note, whatever you want to write. Our small booth is really more interesting:-) Right now, i'm in the talk table to introduce Anne-Marie in her's bugsquad presentation ! Later will talk more about our second Latinoware experience, getting better and better... Ahh, i forgot to say, there's a nice tipical "Minas Gerais" prize waiting for one of the guys writing the note ! Read More

So some already heard the news, but just today i felt that is time to push my own message. After 10 and a half years, i'm leaving Conectiva and of course Mandriva. Among all this years i shared all the up and downs, saw literally hundreds of colleagues leave company in all sort of situations, saw company evolution from a linux box distro to a major world linux developer, survived position changes, office changes, even building changes. As everyone that lived all the past and current histories knows that are all to stay for life. I arrived at Conectiva to do one of amazing hard work, which is convert an migrate the first ATM machines in the world from DOS to Linux in a stupid very short time ( bank is well know as Banrisul and you can see many pictures allover the web ). Guess what, still works, and you can see application running as today, with all post revisions. And i joined later the corporate development team at Conectiva. But was my post assignment that created my real meaning in FLOSS, when i joined the distribution team ( the distro !! ). I will not deny that much of what i learn until now came from the guys there, some of then today found in companies that already are or starting to grow and learn FLOSS. And was there that i get my real love for code, and in special some desktop interface called KDE. Same thing that bring me to know the world, and many friends. From there to now, i've been doing so many things is FLOSS that i really loose track. But this is a not ended history :-) At Conectiva, would be unfare to say thanks for a specific person, since was not a workplace, was a family, as disfunctional with good and bad days family. But survivors. And to Mandriva french friends, i have special thanks for Anne ( extended to her husband Erwan ) that welcome us in a moment that lot of people at .br are having doubts if merge would work and mostly to received me at their home as close friends, even with a surprise invitation to their wedding. And to Blino too, since he was a party buddy and good support at .fr side. ( yes,PLF people, i will not forget you, so no hunting me please :-). And i can say that KDE will be in very good hands at Mandriva starting November... Read More

Hello everyone, from some time br.kde.org, the Brazilian KDE page was maintained in a slow pace, due the heavy duty that me, Maurício, Felipe ( the previous mantainer ) and other translations guys in role are into ( like real life ). Was basically pt_BR carbon copies of main website, nothing more. As Felipe asked for a temp departure, we are in need of new fresh blood insane people to join the hard task and bring new life to the home. So i'm proud to announce that Tomaz and Sandro, from the Live Blue project accepted take the task. So, thanks to Felipe for all the years in the translation team and taking care of the site, and welcome to the new overlords of Brazilian KDE Site. Hope they will aim to a new high quality project as our friends of KDE India are doing !! Read More

Yes, sounds strange. Why should i did it ? Well, first is known among the distros that qt-creator in first release is not the most friendly to packaging. Not only beacuse qmake, but because some distros rely on things like splitted packages or 32/64 bits coexistent libs and plugins. Second, was quite a challenge for me do this, because i need to learn some new tricks ( thanks dfaure for automoc4 help ). Third, dressing my packager hat, i would love to see qt-creator been in the main Mandriva distro, compliant with our policies, and been adopted as well i expect for kdevelop4 when be released. Qt Creator is one of the amazing IDE's around and i thought that worth the effort to give some love in buildsystem to have it in a full Mandriva way, including our flags and standard cmake build. During the process, i could manage to fix all bugs open in our bugzilla about packaging, and at same time enable the "most wanted" feature here, the designer plugin, which for some reason was not enabled in our qmake previous compilation. Read More

Arrived the time of year of doing another test upgrade for Mandriva users. This time is a little bit special, since you will be using Qt 4.5.0 final, with all our efforts to make it stable with backports, annoying some KDE devels ( thanks dfaure and Thiago ), etc.. If you want to know who are the guilt ones for this release, go and see nice about tab in "KDE about" after installed :-) Standard urpmi repositories are available. README for some detailed information. Read More

Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.0 packages now updated for both i586 and x86_64. A standard urpmi repository is available. README for some detailed information. Some reference to a corrupted l10n packages will be verified and fixed this weekend, but not affects regular usage. Read More

Thanks to a good earphone playing lots and lots of loud and good trance music, i'm providing Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.0 packages. For now only i586 packages are available, x86_64 packages will be provided after initial feedback. A standard urpmi repository is available. README for some detailed information. Read More

With some delay due the heavy workload at Mandriva offices, i manage to provide some experimental packages for Mandriva 2008 Spring. A standard urpmi repository is available. Please refer to README for detailed information. And of course: Read More

Well, was a huge journey for usr this time. 2008.1 was not only an updated 2008.0, but since early design, was clearly that we would try do a big step on our development. Just to mention what arrived since 2008.0, we're integrated Manbo labs work, which means now we're have a real common core system between us and Turbo Linux, we're integrated PulseAudio on whole distro, which was a bold move and even not been so perfect yet, for me proves at all that was the right decision, and of course, we did most of possible fixes and insanities on KDE 3 !! I can tell, we sacrificed polish a kde 4 environment, today in contrib, due our heavy tasks to make KDE 3 as best as possible. I can't measure the stress of hunt and do changes like we want, and some couldn't be solved to last moments, but i can say was one of the best KDE deployments the Mandriva KDE team did ever. From the screensaver to the kicker changes to menu changes, all small patches and fixes almost impossible to be noted, but which took hours from us to find, or even touch in monster codes like kicker one, and integrate new features. As i promised myself, the day we gone gold, would be last day i would see KDE 3 in my personal work machine, so now i'm using in production KDE 4.0.68 over 2008.1 base and i guess you know why ... So congrats to everyone that did a wonderful job on Mandriva Spring and we finally break the curse :-D Read More

First of all, on behalf of all Mandriva KDE team ( me, Gustavo Boiko, Danilo César and our main contributor Nicolas Lecureuil ), we want to to say a big thanks for the enourmous efforts and the present result named KDE 4.0.0 ! Been for some time in the last years actively involved in KDE development in many ways considering distributions and even the amount of rants and talks on conferences, i'm proud to be the small part of this huge project that prove in many ways that we can deploy desktop on opensource with quality. If users are looking for Mandriva packages, we have it at http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.0.0/Mandriva/ Read More

Troy was a little too much polite for me. Really. Is easy to understand when we saw critics. Most easy when are from the people that can't or couldn't help the subject but want express their own feeling about this. But NOT when came from the people that CAN HELP and MAKE PART OF THE SUBJECT. Read More

First of all, i'm working in a Linux company, i use Linux for almost everything in my life except gaming. Second, my company sold like hundred thousand of linux machines all over the world. Third, it's obvious for any smart person that actually read regular information about computer world see that linux is growing A LOT. Then, suddenly, the bank that i use ( and many of my fellows co-workers ) decide the very smart move to include an security applet that simply makes mandatory the use of Microsoft Windows. And they tell this explicitely. They provide a telephone to users of "other operational systems" to inform then that they're not using MS ( maybe to tell then to use telephone operations ). Ok, would be barely ok if.. ..i'm outside my country. The only way i have to pay my accounts is by internet banking, as my family lives away from my city. And will not back until the terminal date od back change, 19 October. So, if some issue happens during my stay out my home, like pay the credit card debts, that i'm using here, to avoid lock, i'll be helpless, or use some non-personal computer with Microsoft Windows to deal with my money. Nice, huh ? To have security, i just need abandon my current security in favor of a use unsecure computer that i can't assure if is reliable. Maybe can i ask ABN to give me R$ 500,00 in my account to buy a copy of some non portuguese Microsoft Windows here to solve my issue :-P Read More

I started Jambi package to Mandriva at Akademy this year, but process was complex since we're dealing with buildsystem changes, Java new packages, Qt4 layout changing, so lots of barriers to get the task done. My personal effort on this is have next Mandriva releases be ready for developers in all cases, to use best available Qt and KDE technologies as possible, improving our situation from the past. Then, yesterday i had all things in really good shape, and finally a good initial package could be produced. I tested many environments. gcj/ecj was having some compile issues, but java 1.6 sun and the best, java 1.7 icedtea worked as a breeze. Linking against system Qt 4.3.1 was not a problem at all. Great that both i586 and x86_64 arches are compiled fine as well ( thanks for David Walluck tips ). So the major trouble in my special case is the install process, as Jambi not provide a proper install script, and even a proper layout to install. I decided make launcher and designer-jambi scripts to lauch on doc and devel package respectively, and separate Jambi jar and libraries in different packages, and most of files fall down on same qt4 dir on Mandriva. We fall down with this result: Read More

Ok, 22 days after, the bag is back ! All stuff inside, no damage at all, just the bag itself with some scratches. Interesting thing in that clearly luggage was open and all things changed position, even things that was inside a necessaire, like a deodorant, was drop on bag, and necessaire was still closed :-) I will not complain about the scratches on the bag, i had enough stress about whole thing last weeks, i'm happy enough to have all things back with me. Case closed !! Read More

BIG RANT MODE Seens like air companies are really lost on this days. My luggage still not arrived, and neither companies, TAM and British Airways seens able to find what's happened. Read More

( For english speakers, translation will follow soon portuguese entry ) Bom, acredito que a maioria dos interessados nessa arena de programação do FISL devem já ter recebido o recente comunicado sobre premiações e desafios que pretendem colocar. Eu fui pessoalmente convidado, com outros colegas brasileiros do projeto KDE para ajudarmos na mesma, sendo que somente eu poderei estar presente esse ano. Para tanto, tive que fazer algumas considerações sobre o planejamento original da arena como nos foi requisitado. Foi aventado a possibilidade de colocar no contest uma certa quantidade de bugs do KDE ( também Gnome e Debian ) como os ítens de resolução. Poderia ser até uma boa idéia, porém estamos falando de um torneio de tempo curto e seria muito difícil que os participantes, salvo excessões, tivessem conhecimento básico de tecnologia KDE e Gnome, e ainda mais sobre específica distribuição como Debian ( assumindo que todos os participantes usem no seu dia a dia a distribuição ). Foi de comum acordo entre o grupo que não seria viável simplesmente escolher bugs do KDE e separá-los por dificuldade, ainda mais se decidiríamos por kde 3 o kde 4. Isso é irreal no espaço de tempo curto envolvido. Eu me ofereci prontamente para ajudar no último dia se necessário, porém meu planejamento pessoal envolve, com muito gosto, ser o "tech news man" para o br-linux, o qual o Augusto já tinha me convidado a tempos, portanto, meu tempo está reduzido em relação as atividades extras e as pessoais. Mas de novo, me coloquei a disposição de poder ajudar, mesmo quem sabe ajudando a avaliar problemas reais e factíveis da arena, para que realmente possamos encontrar bons programadores, porque quem vive nesse ramo aqui, sabe como isso é escasso e raro... Read More

Nada como um "desafio" de uma arena de programação. Esconderam um código na página e com dicas do futuro lá também :-) O "código" escondido é um pequeno javascript do infame Rot13 "criptografado" em Rot13. Espero que o grau de dificuldade posterior vá bem além disso, porque um bom programador ia acabar se sentindo ofendido de entrar num trial com esse tipo de questionamento. Basta dar uma pequena olhada nos trials do Google que se entende o que é uma dificuldade real. Read More

Breaking my long time without blogging and doing talks, i couldn't forget to say that we have soon the new Linuxchix event, and now with a new important target added on the roll, the teacher's side. Basically one part of event will be dedicated to give headings for school and university teachers to how to teach and bring new students to the open source world. Quoting the official press release: "LinuxChix Brazil Meeting - Webcast, teachers and sponsors Next September 8th and 9th, the 4th Linuxchix Brazil National Meeting will take place in Florianópolis, Brazil. The Meeting will be held in the Barddal Foundation. There is no need to pre-register, and registration will be on site. The talks will be presented in Portuguese. The subjects this year cover OpenLDAP, Linux in 64 bits processors, Python, Academic Management Systems, Modern Graphics Interfaces, Gentoo, High Availability, FreeBSD, Asterisk, Udev, Kernel for beginners... it will be 22 talks, 4 mini courses and a Teacher's Afternoon." Read entire press release here: [http://www.linuxchix.org.br/?q=node/72|LinuxChix Brazil 2006] Read More

Couples ( actually way more than couples ) of Caipirinhas, beer, and here we go... Aaron Seigo play for the masses.. Many thanks our fellow XSun for the picture Read More

... is that usually came with a not long enough wire :-) After some hours spent in front of my home computer, even been a extremly good Stanton headphone, i've become tired of make my chair pass with his wheels over the wire again, and again, and again.. Yes, no damage of wire, it's all working, but i really want a wireLESS one finally. The problem is as i live in a building, and like sound is a not so gentle volume, i think that people at my side would not like the weirdo sounds after 22:00, so i need the phones for the sake of neighbours sanity. "We want freedom, to do what we want ... we wanna get loaded: ( Easy Rider moment on Primal Scream seminal song "loaded", album Screamadelica ). In my case, i want freedom ... to go to my refrigerator without taking out my phones ! Ah, for reference, at this right moment is playing "Bad Base" from B.T.B. Read More

Simple as should be: Merry Christmas for everyone... No exceptions... :-)

For everyone's blaming me not blogging for some time, i wouldn't feel good to write anything before recently changes. Too much work, not good days, even hard to get a good mood to work on KDE, but... Well, last happy weekend i saw a lot of movies, from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with an great Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet to American Splendor, another amazing picture retracting some part of United States culture, and have the presence of Crumb ( anyone who read cartoons MUST know him ) as a crucial part of the history, to the terrible but brilliant Der Untergang ( Downfall ), an crude and too alive picture from the last days of Hitler on Berlim saw by eyes of persons not biased by second war cruelty, making his point of view unique Three complete different pictures, and for me, which most came to my attention was soundtracks. all perfect in their context. Of course i'm gone to find some of the tracks. One in special, from American Splendor, was an old latin tecnopop hit called Silent Morning ( Noel ). This is a well fitted song for today, when 80's is around everywhere, and i would really like to listen more of same style ( not genre now ). So i'm gone for the first obvious channels, google and amazon. I got some results from google, like having time references from the 80's, some top hit songs, but even in the 20 first hits i couldn't find the info i needed. Charts from those times are very hard to find and sometimes inacurate. So, i gone to Amazon to see what buyers bought togheter with Noel CD. I got some interesting references, like Stevie B's and Johnny O's, which record lead me to TKA and other's. So ok. Now i got some more references. But all this references are from available cd's on amazon. I would like to try singles that probably never would be released on cd and maybe ( i said maybe ) some "genious" from music industry put him available on download. So, next try ? Audioscrobbler. Terrible idea. Too many references from people who listened Noel, including crap brazilian funk music ( Funk Pancadão on local language ). Not works for who want some basic results. So i decided not follow the users path ( even on google all the results lead me to make cross references on user indications ). Now it's time to find by genre. So i gone to insane and funny Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music and let them point me the genre of this kind of song. Was nice since i could remember and listen for the good old hip-hop like Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang. Backing to the genre, i thought was some kind of Miami Bass, but no. Neither Electro Funk ( hail George Clinton ). Electro is getting near and links moved me to SynthPop ( Human League anyone ? ). So after inumerous references, guess what style most fits on my needs ? Freestyle. Can you imagine how easy is to find something based on "freestyle" genre ?. So, getting the point. We have a lot of information available around internet, lot of ways to search, and even users cross references, but NONE way to find this in an easy method whithout leading you to make a personal data mining. I got something like 20 songs after all this searchs, and takes me a time that a not obstinated computer geek would take. There's still too much things to research and develop. That's a fact Read More

Well... This year i intended to take vacations at mom's house, in a beatifull place called Florianópolis.. I scheduled my vacations to april, 3 and i was thinking that everything would go smooth until the week before arrived !! So, i was invited for 3 KDE, Desktop and Qt talks in this month. Ok, i thought, it's just 3. But ( always have a but ), i didn't imagine what's coming next.. Here's the itinerary: Read More

Vacations lead you to do strange things... I waked up this morning and strangely aim my eyes to the huge closet barely opened in last three years at my apartment.. So, i decided that it's time to throw out almost everything in there, since i really didn't need this stuff. And in this times you see things that did your past and probably meant a lot for you. From letter of ex-girlfriends to friends cards. From a full collection of Wired magazines ( in their good times ) to a Dr. Dobbs and C++ Journal editions ( you need been a brazilan to know how expensive and hard was to buy such magazines, life used to be a lot hard here in those times ). From a X-Men collection to a university notes and old computer books. It's misterious how mind's work, bringing missing feelings, and histories with this inanimated objects, and causing some affection to then, trying to keep you away from the "throw away" idea. But i decided that's time to move on on this things. Among things, i decided give my fully working old Super Nintendo to the son of one of securty persons of my building, give another Board game to another son of other security guy and the full x-men collection to the son of the third security guy ( they are four at all ). I made this to assure that this things will give same fun i had on the past for new children. From magazines, i decided keep three Wired editions that marked me a lot, specially the one showing the dawn of Atari and how this technicias become half of entire Silicon Valley companies. From ex-girlfriends things ? Garbage. Good and bad memories, but must go. I keep special pictures. From Comics, just the Graphic Novels that i re-read from time to time, mainly the Sandman ones. And the university notes, i kept just the conclusion work. I really wanted save old work, but it's interesting how's Internet provides everything that i use to have in paper. Not that is a good thng, is dangerous. We are becoming too dependant. But even with this, i decided throw away everything. As everything have the good and the bad side, the bad side was throw my notes where i can saw that truly grow up and did a lot of mistakes, but the good is that i'm opening space for growing more ( and make new mistakes )... Anyway, life's going on Read More

Well Following the tuff days at Conectiva ( company restructuring is always tuff ), we are finishing our next Conectiva release. Many people know how insane and massive split package policy we have, and adding new packaging features like automatic i18n subpackages generation and auto detecting i18n install by language ( all thanks to LUA language embedded on apt ) looks like the things are become harder to manage, no ? Really no. We reach a good technology stage and a good efficiency with our small team and we do this things easily. BUT ( always have a BUT ), there is such beasts as KDE i18n Packages... I and my trainee suffer a lot every time we need create de KDE i18n packages. Why ? We package whole KDE, Koffice, Quanta, Kdevelop, etc.. As a distribution, we always choose a branch stable bugfix release ( of course ), so let's use branch i18n packages, right ? Terribly wrong... Let me enumerate such points: Read More