About a trip to Canada, or Montreal Summit

So in the last two weeks I have been for the first time in Canada. I was first some days at the Banff Centre, which is awesome, and spent last weekend in Montreal for the GNOME Montreal Summit.

This was my first international GNOME (no)conference, and it was great to finally meet people like Colin, Owen, Ryan, Cosimo, Karen, etc.

I discussed and asked a lot of questions to Ryan, Cosimo and Colin about some ideas of the future of Evince related technologies. For instance, we agreed with Cosimo that it probably makes sense to have a evince-based plugin for your browser (finally!!) because it could be better for the workflow where you don't
want to download the document (and you don't need to). I also asked Ryan and Colin for ways of making evince safer by splitting the rendering code into a sandboxed process. And I asked many other things with cosimo about evince, gtk, css.

I also participated in some sessions like the jhbuild session, the GSoC session, and I even organized a short session about online metadata for our desktop. Although not many people were excited about my ideas, it was nevertheless great to have the feedback of many talented hackers in GNOME.

I also discussed with Andreas the idea of getting some cool Laptop Skins with GNOME designs, so hopefully he will get some cool designs soon, and with Marina I discussed about Women outreach and how the gnome-chile community is working to promote GNOME and all these programs.


Overall, it was really great for me to meet all the prople, and I thank all the people i met for all their feedback, surely I have now a lot of ideas about how to improve evince... if only i would have more time. The GNOME Foundation for sponsornig my trip and to an anonymous friend for letting me crash at his couch on Montreal.

Time to go into the plain.... some 10 hours ahead to be back in a sunny Santiago again

I am going to the Montreal Summit

This is just a quick note to say that I am going to the Montreal GNOME Summit. Contrary that for many the move from Boston to Montreal was bad, I just happened to be in Canada on the same dates, so for me it was a lucky move! I am looking forward to meet some GNOME devs for the first time on live.


Greets

Gedit-latex has been ported to Gedit 3.

So this post is to announce that I just have released gedit-latex 3.1.1. This is the first (unstable) release of Gtk3 port we did of the great plugin by Michael Zeising. You can download it from http://download.gnome.org/sources/gedit-latex/3.1/ and please file bugs against GNOME Bugzilla (product:gedit component:latex). We have been using it for quite some time and should be fairly stable. We hope to release Gedit-latex 3.2 along wi th the GNOME 3.2 Release.

Many thanks to Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, John Stowers, Lucas Roesler and Michael Zeising for all their help.

Enjoy!