Balance personal / professional this year already know that for many years or at least the beginning of the so-called "new-kind personal purposes" begin in September, and I was not going to be less.
A little over a year that began a new career in my life, I went from being an analyst-programmer and Head of Computer Department of the UNED in Malaga to a professional, with lots of freedom and theoretically much time to do everything I wanted, and now it's time for a brief summary of this year.
SUMMER 2006: JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
During the past summer (2006), and as has become a tradition in my life for many, many years, I began to organize a summer of training and outreach, and in this edition it was called e-verano.org
: A Look at Society free. After achieving objectives unexpected and a great satisfaction by all participants, both organizers, speakers, attendees ,....
came time to close a number of projects during the month of September (performance of memory, DVD of the event, reaching ,...) accounts in October, which also produced one of the best times of my life in many time.
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2006
As I said before, without a doubt one of the best times in recent years of my life, not just believe it and no willpower, I pack my bags and I went almost three
months Dublin-Ireland to try one of the best English schools fight one of my major handicaps: the total lack of English (yes, I know, as you can, right? it is what you have studied all your life and have French academic a father who speaks fluent).
During those three months and until the December holidays, I was living in Dublin, and also to learn English, I had the opportunity to collaborate on some projects in Spain. On my return
played in preparing the next stage Hispalinux
, performing a program for the new application
Board .
JANUARY 2007
Some short trips to attend some events and meetings, the main
Hispalinux assembly to elect a new Board . This was also an intense month of work organization, working with the International Conference
3.0 Free Software and more specifically with friends Paco Huertas, Carlos Castro and Antonio Soler, great architects of the success and cohesion obtained at the conference. FEBRUARY 2007
More preparations for what is undoubtedly the most important
find the free software community at the national level and subsequent stay there (
Badajoz) during the days of the event and some more (dedicated to the organization .)
also had the opportunity to draft a migration to free software for the Commonwealth of Axarquia and make preparations for another long journey. MARCH 2007
My second stay outside Spain
again happy to try to improve my English, and this time, a new destination, I had to find a place that was not only cheaper, but also did not have many English. Building on that I could not travel on the same day to Malta, I used my round trip to visit some friends (in the first leg in Milan and Dublin back).
During this month, which was also very active at the level of
laws and regulations to technological freedoms Spain, was also involved advising on some other technology projects, and back, I still expected to present several projects to subsidies that end on 30 March.
APRIL 2007 I participated in some interesting
conferences in Fuerteventura, where no doubt, all the speakers, except the speaker, were of a high level and not only national but international.
And of course, again a hard work to coordinate the response
citizens and social groups against another attempt to bridge the technological freedom. Start the job
intense coordination of the new e-verano.org
MAY 2007
Month intense as they come, first a quick trip to Madrid
for a first job interview in a place that really motivated me and we left both sides very satisfied. Back
trip to Seville to attend the Summit Ubuntu
.
then nearly even starting the month, a 18-day journey through different places in Spain
in the safety of the President, a very enriching experience, and although he had nothing to do with the world of new technologies, taking advantage my stay in any city to
meet friends who normally collaborate on projects remotely varied.
still have time to go to Seville and Almendralejo, perhaps one of my worst decisions, but which took
very positive things, especially at the level of response. JUNE 2007
longest month I was in Malaga, in fact most of the month (and for almost a year since I spent more than a week straight in my home), dedicated exclusively to the organization
e-summer org. , an event that requires much effort, not only for its length and content, two weeks and different activities under one umbrella, but by the large number of speakers
attending. Not to mention the numerous meetings and negotiations to secure the financial resources and material resources, the certification
assistance or institutional support from government level Junta de Extremadura, Junta de Andalucía, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Linux Reference Center. .. or Universidad Pablo de Olavide own, which no doubt we are very grateful for all the efforts and involvement developed. JULY 2007
Another month intense, especially when talking of new projects, meetings .. and lots of socialization during
e-verano.org, almost a month away , deserving and well worth it.
During the e-verano.org Not only were able to attend the first international conference, but that closed some new projects and partnerships
, not only government but also with business associations and other free software groups attending. AUGUST 2007
Although it is the quintessential holiday month in Spain, and many of the projects in which I participate is stopped or slowed down, there's always time to make
feedback, reports, closing accounts of e-verano.org , ... and why not to take advantage and take a mini-vacation, in this case (and after many years of collect them)
a week in Egypt.
