First of all, I want to welcome the new readers I’ve got after become part of planet Skolelinux. It was a surprise to me when I received an email from Japan commenting my blog. As usual, the “global village” is a real fact, but it’s still amazing for me.
This is a small post to remind some of the things I still remember of the past summer:
I want to thank all the Debconf 9 organizators, specially to Anto Recio who worked really hard to be able to support (in all the sense of the word) so many geeks for two weeks.
Many big companies went to Extremadura to meet our President. They always want him to see that they are the best, have the better ideas, and even look brighter and shine more than the others, and of course, shine more than the poor public workers who are doing the IT development inside the government. From Microsoft to Intel, or IBM, they use big words and press notes with their big ideas, maybe thinking we don’t know their ideas are not new, and many other people have already demonstrated and implemented how things work.
And, last, an almost political detail. After the announce of the project “Escuela 2.0” that will provide a notebook (in fact a, subnotebook) to the school children. The spanish education minister remarked that the publishers shouldn’t worry, as the machines are not going to replace the text books. I think there still a lot of public people who don’t know the century they’re living on. What most of us would desire is saving our bank accounts and our sons backs of the weight and price of those old, expensive, useless and stupid text books. In other parts of the world, they’re releasing text books in electronic format, written by teachers, free in all senses. Maybe we’re so rich that don’t need to think on this and we can go on destroying our sons’ backs and feeding the accounts of the big publishers.
I usually write in spanish in this blog, but Iñ(TM)ll try to write in english some brief explanations of my entries. Even if not all the text is translated, at least the non-spanish readers might understand the head of my ideas.