Last week was
the GPLv3
conference, and right now I'm at GUADEC, both of which were in the
provence of Barcelona.
The GPLv3 conference, in Barcelona city, went really well and the
whole thing was recorded on video by Sean Daly. Raw audio should be
ready by Friday, so some of us will start working on transcripts and
summaries while Sean is generating the Ogg theora video and vorbis
audio files. On Wednesday July 5th, or the 7th at the latest, we'll
put online whatever we've managed to make.
I enjoyed Barcelona city. I didn't get to see any of the city's
famous architecture, but Barcelona has weather I could get used to,
and it has the largest Filipino community I've seen. I found about
eight Filipino food stores, three restaurants, and two video libraries.
I still couldn't find any books other than the usual series of short
romance novels, but I did manage to pick up some Tagalog karaoke CDs,
ate dinuguan (blood stew), and had plenty of conversations in Tagalog
without them or me switching to English.
The karaoke CDs are both for educational value, and for practicing my
party piece. There's almost always karaoke at Filipino parties, and
I'm not much of a singer, but a Caucasian singing in their language is
pretty rare, and my Dublin-accented Tagalog gets some laughs. I have
some recordings which I'll put online when I get around to it.
I went back to Brussels after the GPLv3 conference, and am now back
to Barcelona provence, a week later, for GUADEC in Vilanova. I had a
speaking slot to talk about GPLv3 and
it went better than planned. I got positive feedback about the
content afterward, and in a rare feat, I managed to speak slowly and
clearly.
My slides are
online now. The presentation software I use is something I really
like called S5. It's
css and javascript based and you just make one HTML file. One nice
feature is that it changes the font size depending on your window size
- so when a projecor can't display my non-standard resolution, I can
resize the window to fit the part of the screen that is being
displayed, and my slides resize to suit.
I was introduced to it by Gareth Bowker when font problems broke the
software I had been using 30 minutes before I had to give a talk. S5
presentations are simple and quick to make, and they just need a
working installation of Firefox (other webbrowsers probably work too).