Our next interview comes from another member of the local GUADEC organizing team Emilio J Padrón.
Whats your name?
Emilio J. Padrón
Where do you live and/or work?
I both live and work in A Coruña, though I often stay in Ourense as well, my hometown.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Mainly reading. I also love playing (and watching) basketball.
With GUADEC 2012 starting in just two weeks, GNOME News is starting a series of interviews with members of the local organizing team. Our first interview is from one of the members of the local team, Laura M. Castro.
Where do you live and/or work?
I live and work in A Coruña.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Nothing out of the ordinary, really.
Our next interview comes from Serafín "riptide" Villar, who is a member of the local GUADEC organizing team.
Where do you live and/or work?
Now I'm living in Cambre (a town near A Coruña) and work throughout Galicia.
What do you like to do in your free time?
Any kind of stuff with computers, play flag football, walk with my family, friends and dog.
What is your favorite part of A Coruña (and/or
Our second interview comes from another member of the local organizing team Alejo Pacín:
Q: Where do you live and/or work?
Alejo: I live in the best place in the world! Taboada, a small rural municipality in the province of Lugo (about 140 km from A Coruña).
GUADEC is only a few days away, but GNOME contributors are already gathering in A Coruña and getting down to some important work. Today marks the beginning of a two-day design event that is being hosted in the Igalia A Coruña office.
The UX Hackfest brings GNOME designers and developers together to review ongoing development initiatives.
The public Call for Participation for Lightning Talks, BoF and Hackfest
has officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European
Conference (GUADEC [1]) conference.
You can read the call for participations at
http://www.guadec.org/lightning-bof-cfp and submit your proposal at the
submission system [2].
GUADEC 2012 will be hosted in A Coruña, Spain, from July 26 - August
1st.
The full program for this year's GUADEC conference has been announced. GUADEC is the premier GNOME conference, and is being held in a Coruña, Spain, from July 26th to August 1st.
A few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accesibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people involved and then learn a bit more about this interesting Project.
Our next interview comes from one of the new members of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Tobias Mueller.
Where do you live/work?
I live in Hamburg, in the lovely north of Germany.
Why is open source/free software important to you?
I believe that Free Software makes the world a better place.