Feelings at Guadec-ES 7 (A Coruña)

July 26, 2010

Last Thursday and Friday I was in Coruña attending to the GUADEC-ES, the most important event of GNOME and “hispanic version” of GNOME Users and Developers Conference. It was my first event focused in GNOME and was simply amazing. I met a lot of GNOME Hackers and get the feeling that I’m in a collaborate with great community. I enjoy all the talks but I have to highlight some of them.

Git it done! by Mario Sánchez. I use git for more than 2 years but Mario gave us a glorifious crash course about it. You can find the slides [ES] in the next link: http://tinyurl.com/2wzqy6d
Other of the talks that I prefer is ”GNOME 3 para desarrolladores” (GNOME 3 for developers). Carlos Garcia Campos explain us the main differences between last GNOME libraries and what was done to achieve GNOME 3. Clean up !!
The great discovery talk was ”Vala, un lenguaje para Gnome 3.0” by Roberto Majadas. I heared just a little about Vala but Roberto with a lot of examples explain us the posibilities that Vala has to develop with a high-level language but with the benefits of optimization and speed of C language.
And finally ”cómo estudiar y participar en software libre sin morir en el intento” (How to study and participate in Free Software without die trying). Diego Escalante, developer of Epiphany, IMHO is the best speaker I have the pleasure to attend. The talk had a funny tone mixed with real experiences. Again you can find the slides here: http://people.gnome.org/~diegoe/slides/20100723_Coru%25C3%25B1a_Estudiar-y-participar.pdf

GPUL, coorganizers of this GUADEC, promised to make accesible all the videos recorded there. When this happen I’ll update this post to link them. Conclusion: I recommend all to go this type of conferences cause you can learn a lot in just some hours and you’ll meet a lot of amazing people.