So we reach 2012, and there are many things happening personally and also business wise. The biggest theme on the personal arena is about "being stable".

What does being stable means and how my friends have achieve that stableness? For a while I have been interested on learning how my friends achieve what they have had and what things they haven't achieved. During a meeting with a fellow friend with the same first name came to review. Only 2 stories within our 60+ friends have been able to make a future of their own. That means achieving a way of living without the help of their family.

However one of those stories, I have been one of those. I most say I am kind of proud.

On the business side, I got a call from a entrepreneur from a content company for certifications on Linux and soon OpenOffice.org. Which is a great news to start the year, this might be the break that would give me a business direction for 2012.

Promoting their material and having an agreement that will allow me to grow business wise, will be great for everyone.

I hope when I get back to Cancun I would be able to find new ideas and will be able to have a win.

So the last post of the year as I will try to look back on my personal life. My achivements and things that I think are moving for the next year.

• A whole year living in Cancun, nothing like chilling next to a beautiful beach. 
• Flying to New York and watching the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Mobb Deep, Immortal technique etc 
• Starting the certification for OpenOffice.org as well as the Internships 
• Building a new tech community in Cancun with Tequilla Valley 
• Becoming the technical lead for OLPC Mexico and country manager for FLISOL and Software Freedom Day 
• Giving some PHD classes on free software

Some goals for new year include:

• Expand the certification project to the rest of the world 
• Moving back to Europe 
• Going to ApacheCon and representing OpenOffice 
• Consolidating a olpc group in sugar development in Cancun 
• Push better quality and development community 
• Finalize the OpenOffice guide and bring it up to par with the english version 
• Give out a course on free software processes and environment for enterprise 
• Follow the NBA and see Lebron James live game

So the project seems that have been fully migrated to Apache Software Foundation and new projects seems to be on the horizon. From a new build, to other projecs like the certification project, the development project and others. The education project activities seemed that will pick up a new level and be able to work on team of interns and would also fuel the project for the initial months of the project within the Apache realm.

OpenOffice.org in 2012 will see more hacking and releases under the new developers pushing code from other projects like Symphony and even a new ecosystem with ApacheCon people coming in the project.

ODF would also see the impact of the new OpenOffice.org project and I think that it would also be benefited by other projects that work on ODF implementations.

There is also the LibreOffice project that would be pushing their way on the code and be able to modify the way the office suite work. Would be interest to see how these suites become something else, making them more hackable.

Good luck to the OpenOffice.org project in 2012 and I hope that many projects continue the evolution of the project.

Yesterday I was able to participate in a talk during a University event about the virtual internships through OpenOffice.org, project named "WayOOo".

The WayOOo project is a incentive to build the infrastructure of creating contracts with the universities about creating relationships and getting kids into the project.

OOo might not be the best project to start but is certainly a powerful and and popular open source platform to do so.

So the project has already produced a successful intern with a tangible result, and during the conference he was able to create a UNO naturalization to a popular OOo extension. OOo2Gdoc is an extension that will connect and exchange documents with Google Docs, Zoho and Webdav through their API.

So the presentation was a bit rocky, I got a bit lost explaining the concept of the presentation through a very awkward example of how traditional internships fail. However things improved when the intern talked about his extension and finally I think the QA was great since we were able to talk more fluently with the audience. At the end, I enjoyed it but the people attended was fairly reduced and I guess I was competing with other great talks, I only wish this talk was worth it for the few and will talk about it with their peers.

I am leaving the original presentation so you can check it out and comment on it, if you like it or have any suggestions please comment on it.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to blog that much, so here are just a summary of random updates about my recent activities. I have been busy with a new event called RubyConf, which is a hackaton on Ruby on Rails to generate new projects.

The Rubyconf will happen in Cancun at the ME hotel, at least those are the plans but things could change as we move along. So far the project seems promising and also help us reinforce the ties with the local universities.

On other news, I have recently talked with my ex but she seemed she was pretty mad on me and wasn't able to have a good conversation since she was feeling so bad.

I hope she get to feel better and eventually to her senses. I have also been on to Coatzacoalcos to give a talk on QA and other things related to software development and free software.

Speaking about OpenOffice.org I have seen many changes and proposals to change the trademark, the mailing list, forums and other things. This is a hard change for me since some of the situations seems a bit rushed. Maybe because some of the stuff is about the community being dismantle and also re-assembled somehow.

Today I got emails from our spaniard college where we finally got the documents to work upon the internships in Europe. We won't be offering payment unfortunately but they will surely be able to be part of the efforts happening in OpenOffice.org as they are starting to generate some code. These students will be able to build and provide documentation on it. Also some will need to be able to code some mid-size code to have an acknowledgement of their program. 

For exmaple:

• Core developers will first need to compile and run OOo from current source. From then they will need to learn about services and interfaces and optimize some parts of the OpenOffice.org suite. Some goals can include - improve the Draw interface, improvde the way calc functions get built, a GUI way to design dialogs for Java, a Python framework for UNO with more RAD driven code.
• Extension development will focus on create new extensions as well as improve some of the ones available. Several projects such as digital signature extensions, improved GUI and instant signature for some specific devices. 

These efforts would be need to start getting accumulated until we can have a productive suite. I was pleased that the spaniard university will assign as much as 6 students per profile (would need to verify) but the skillset will be great for them and for us as well. If the students don't acomplish their goals, it would still serve for their knowledge of the software as well as me. Working together will allow the patches to be commited and also tested and quality approved in one sole package.

Trip to Ecuador was quite intereting with most of the time being available to have a walk and meet new people, the thing thtat got me about Quito is how similar it looks to Mexico city -- without all the smog that is. With similar street marts and warnings we spent some good chatting and meals regarding the local free software community and how it's needed to deliver the services on top of OpenOffice.org. Likewise we also need some kind of refocus on the way software is created and improved.

A revelation that I had was explaining how the communities had been missconstructed. Which, instead of focusing on the product they actually went on to focus on other things such as the marketing, licenses and location. So a name such as "Local community of free software" it will be around a locality and also a name. I suggested a different approach to it and instead of girating around name or locality to girate around a product.

So having a product, it will actually encourage most of the community to girate around a body of work. This gives communities a better structure such as maintenance tasks, documentation, quality assurance, testing, and of course improvements.

How does improvements come around? Well this is a different dynamcis on community, usually there is so much work than is really difficult space to complain and to provoke flamewars. At least these will be more technical and provide a more product driven testing. So you will have a different branch with one solution and another with another. The best will be integrated into the code tree. 
So the goal of the trip was to do a training and I think we did a good job. The client was please with the performance althought negotiations in the end went a bit rocky. I would have liked to provide a good framework of flexibility. One thing that I think we could have improved is definitly better preparation. Set up the system and also comply with the way that the tasks would be handled in the future.

Right now we discussed about new opportunities for doing business in the current situation. We would be able to offer extra training focused in OpenOffice.org itself. Here is where I think we could generate some revenue as soon as possible, this of course have some dependancies such as if the way the trainning will be focused as a third party or as maybe a fourth party to the end client. 
I still got some thoughts on how we can position ourselves to be the most valuable to our client while at the same time building a cash flow to funnel it back to OpenOffice.org.

Lately I haven't talk much here about OpenOffice.org and what is going right now. However there are many threats that I have been participating and have woken up very defensive sentiments. One of these is against the trademark of OpenOffice.org. After 10 years defending the trademark as the official OpenOffice.org. The new Apache people are trying to diminish the trademark and change it in order to fit their view. Things like Oh most people I talk to say just OpenOffice.

That said, I have found that many people indeed are new to the project however, trying to change things just for change sake is really getting out of control. Right now most of our infrastructure is trying to be changed because is better for the admin. There are strong anti-php sentiments in the project. So having the Drupal, MediaWiki and other assets are a strong uphill battle against the Apache people.

Regardless of all that I think that the community itself is getting a new face and many people are starting to go further and further into the dark of the community. Louis suarez, is rarely seen on the Mailing list, even Peter Junge is also not as notorious. Other people like Hirano has mantain his presence from Japan and I hope there could be more Japanese contributors, and also Brazilian contributors like Jomar are also, for the first time. More participatory in the suite community (he is a strong ODF participant).

So this OOo community will not be like the past OOo community however some patterns are starting to show and I guess a long way will take place to become an OOo community and product.

The aftermath of the latest declaration by Oracle giving the OOo project to the Apache foundation. This sent shakes across the Internet and some of the mailing lists across the web including declarations from everyone across the block of OOo including TDF and others.

However after reading some columns already, this change provides more certainty that the project will live on and that OOo will probably need to rebuilt itself.

The more I read, there is some hope from many developers including Rob Weir from IBM saying:

I have a vision of a free, high quality productivity suite, one based on open standards and open source, one that doesn’t treat the web and mobile and tablet form factors as a design afterthought

Other peers have expressed that TDF power struggles and now becomes a new community with a FLOSS seal of approval and that TDF members don't control. Althought I wouldn't take it like that, I would actually hope for a project refocus on a more aggresive strategy to flatten out the community, and make it more dynamic and forward thinking including having goals like Rob Weir.

On the flip side, I think it will be a great thing for ODF since the fileformat could become more web friendly. Having Apache push ODF further will make it more accepted not just to things like Apache Forest but also other projects that can integrate with frameworks like ODFDOM, Simple ODF API etc.

Replicado del post de Eric Bachard http://eric.bachard.org/news/index.php?post/2011/04/04/OOo4Kids-1.2-is-out

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Desde hace 10 días, la versión de 1.2 de OOo4Kids fue lanzado. Haz clic esta liga para descargarlo OOo4Kids ha sido lanzado para Windows (instalable y portable), Mac OSX (Intel y PowerPC) o GNU/Linux.

Cambios
Nuevo startcenter (gracias para Phillipp Lohmann para su grán ayuda)
Cambia el nivel de uso directamente, usando la nueva entrada de menú Ver -> Nivel de Usuario Gracias a Ramtin Khoshniat and Julien Piret del Ecole Commerciale et Industrielle d'Ecaussinnes por su trabajo.
Nuevo modo de cursor, para modo de anotación de Impress. Codigo probado de Benjamin Vialle y Clement Delafargue, de Ecole Centrale Nantes. Gracias a esto!
Nuevo locales: Griegos (gracias a Anas Drakopoulos), Danes (gracias a Peter Leth para la traducción), Ruso y Ucraniano (gracias a Grygorij Gromko para la traducción)
Optimización ARM (OMAP3, Freescale i.MX515 (ARM Cortex-A8 800MHz), and genric armv6+ instruction set) Gracias a Simon Guinot and Fabien Rendu por su ayuda.

Otros cambios: mejoras de auto-corrección (gracias a Loic Breilloux), port OpenBSD (gracias a RobertNagy) y mucha mas...!!
Para el completo cambio de lista, desde OOo4Kids 1.1 ver el changelog completo.

Versión Debian / Ubuntu
.rpm  son disponibles, pero el .deb, ahora tenemos nuestro repositorio (no oficial) de Debian.

Paso 1: pasa esta linea a la lista de apt-sources:

Paso 2: corre run apt-get update (como root, o usando sudo)

Paso 3: instalar la versión de localización de tu elección
eg. Para versión francesa, solo corre, como root: apt-get install ooo4kids-fr (para versión francesa, pero otras estan disponibles, y solo debes reemplazar fr por tu localización)
Localizaciones disponibles: ar, da, de, es, el, en-us, fi, fr, it, nb, nl, pt, ru, sl, uk, zh-cn, zh-tw

IMPORTANTE: procura desinstalar previamente el OOo4Kids.
Instalar ooo4kids-$tu_idioma ejemplo apt-get install ooo4kids-fr

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