Embracing the changes

Right now I am writing from what is still my bedroom, and my bed. If you had a look around, you could see 7 boxes full of books, clothes, gadgets, things that I need, things that I do not need at all but I feel stupidly attached to. All of them sum up my almost 4 years abroad, not that I can put all the great people that I got to know along the way into my boxes. Those, I keep in my memories and my heart. I just ask myself, how much stuff is a person able to collect in such a short period of time??

These last years have been full of good, and also bad, moments and cherished people. I can say that I learnt something new every day, lived in 7 different places, learned a new language, worked in different companies… It was a great and long adventure, a precious piece of my life, also with big emotional costs, but still, just a part of the adventure. And like every good story, and as Freddie Mercury said, "the show must go on", and my show is just starting!

The destination of these 7 boxes is Gran Canaria; it is also mine. I am moving back home for now and I am really excited about all the new things that are awaiting me in the future. My time at Openismus has come to an end, and therefore, I will have time now to finish my studies—something I really wanted to do a long time ago. I also have the honour to say and re-announce, that I have been selected as one of the interns for the GNOME Outreach Program for Women! This means, that you will still keep on hearing from me! I have been very lucky, I must say, and will be mentored by David King to work on the Cheese project. I cannot wait to start!

Autotools Project Manager, part 4: Moving from Gitorious to Gerrit.

After the first code review from the Qt Creator team, and due to the new Nokia changes related to open governance, this project has been migrated from Gitorious to Gerrit. This migration has blocked the development of the project more than expected, mainly due to the bureaucratic processes involved, but now things are back to normal, and after a second review it seems that we are closer to seeing the plugin become part of Qt Creator.

Also two great pieces of news. The first, is that the configure.ac file is now highlighted in the autotools project. Credit goes to Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, who pointed me to the right place and person in order to make this happen. The second, is that Mathias Hasselmann  has come up with a great idea: a script for converting devhelp books into Qt help collections.

As you see, all good news! Now, let's go on making Qt Creator rock!

Update: Since there is no way to have even read access to Gerrit unless one has an account in their Qt Bug Tracker Jira system, I will go on keeping the Gitorious repository up to date with all the changes. Enjoy!

Autotools Project Manager, part 3: The Merge Request

During the Desktop Summit 2011, I had the chance to meet some of the guys working on the Qt Creator (QTC) team. I took advantage of this opportunity and talked to them about the AutotoolsProjectManager plugin. After some discussion, among other things about the lack of available documentation and the intention of making a merge request (MR), I was invited to visit the Nokia office in Berlin. So, last week, I had a very interesting and productive evening there and got to talk to some of the developers, Tobias Hunger, Daniel Molkentin and Oswald Buddenhagen, as well as to Leena Miettinen (in charge of the Qt tools documentation), all of who I have to thank for their patience and the time they took to help me. After the visit and their great advice, I had some homework to do (fix some code style issues, add the documentation and code completion…) to get the plugin prepared for the MR. Now, it is finally available in gitorious, waiting to be reviewed by the QTC team! Let's keep fingers crossed!

Desktop Summit 2011: happy and proud.

I know that it has been two weeks since the Desktop Summit 2011 Berlin came to an end, but I really wanted to write this post.

It is my desire to express loudly and publicly how happy and proud I am. Happy because everything worked better than good, because being a member of the organization has been one of the most gratifying (and also exhausting :-)) experiences this last year. As the volunteering coordinator, I could not be prouder of all the volunteers. You simply did a great job and made things happen. Thanks to the core team for being such a great one, to all the volunteers, also to all of you who volunteered at the last minute, and to all of the attendees for attending and for their understanding when things did not work right out of the box.

Working together with the KDE and GNOME community was a fantastic experience where I got to know lots of interesting people who I hope I will keep in touch with. I will miss all the KDE guys next year at GUADEC! 

See you hopefully soon at any geeky conference!