Kubuntu Podcast

This was my last day at this year’s Akademy, because the next day I took off back home. This day wasn’t very active, for me, at least. The day trip took place today, so most people were not at the venue, and visiting Berlin. Me, the Kubuntu team and the WikiToLearn team, and a few other people decided to stay behind and hack.

I took the opportunity this day to get an interview from Riccardo IACONELLI, the god father of WikiToLearn, for the Kubuntu Podcast. It was a fun interview, especially since I was alone to take it, so I didn’t have separate devices for video and audio. I managed to borrow a phone from someone and have the video recorded with it, and record the audio with mine.

As you’ve seen in my previous post, I went to CERN for a KDE / WikiToLearn sprint. I’ve talked about what WTL is, so I won’t repeat myself. But it’s still awesome. Many have tried to digitalise the college curriculum, but only in their own University. WTL bridges that gap and makes that knowledge available to the world. And because of its openness is why CERN is interested in collaborating with WTL.

Time has been crazy lately for me. So crazy that, I haven’t even managed to blog about many things that I wish I’ve had. And because time is till crazy (haven’t finished packing and taking off in a few hours), I’m blogging about this trip in the last 100 meters.

The story goes like this:

Last Akademy, I found out about the WikiToLearn project and that they have joined the KDE community. I could write a whole series about what WikiToLearn is, so I won’t go into all it’s details. In short it’s a encyclopedia for students to organize their curriculum and share the knowledge.

This post came in a bit late, because I was unsure of what to write. I’ve been pretty busy this month with work and some family matters, so my contributions were pretty much non existant. Or so I thought. Then I remembered:

Contribution to Free Software is not just writing code, it’s anything you do for the improvement of a Free Software project.

This includes bug reports, translations, meetings, promotion, etc. And I’ve done plenty of those.

Let’s see now: (in what ever order I remember them)

I’ve had the idea for a while now to write a blog post at the end of each month where to summarize my contributions in Free Software for the previous month, the purpose being to keep track of my contributions. So here’s my first attempt:

This month began with a super KDE Sprint for KDevelop and Kate. I’ve mentioned the things I did and learned in my previous blog post.

During this sprint I’ve had the great opportunity to meet more of the KDE developers and talk with them about many things related or not to KDE. In fact, one of the developers I’ve met there,I’ve interviewed in this month’s Kubuntu Podcast, together with Aaron Honeycutt and Rick Timmis.