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dimanche 25 janvier 2009

Sale Tuentifox 0.1 beta de las manos de Mozilla Hispano labs

Mozilla Hispano acaba de anunciar la primera versión pública de su extensión Tuentifox 0.1 beta

Esta extensión ofrece a los usuarios de la red social para jóvenes españoles Tuenti un panel lateral que les permitirá interactuar con los servicios de Tuenti (cambiar su estatuto, enviar mensajes, subir fotos, ver qué amigos están conectados...) sin tener la página de Tuenti abierta.

La genesis de esta nueva extensión tiene rasgos muy interesantes tanto a nivel de Mozilla Hispano, como del proyecto Mozilla en general. En efecto, se inició este proyecto cuando hicimos un taller de creación de extensiones en Madrid el mes pasado con mi compañero de trabajo Paul Rouget. El amigo Juantomás García también había hecho un resumen detallado del evento: Resumen Workshop extensiones de firefox.

Este taller (que llamamos MAOW para Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop) era el segundo después del de París de una serie de encuentros que estamos organizando por toda Europa (el próximo taller será en Berlín en marzo). Habíamos decidido adaptar el contenido al mercado español creando la base de una extensión para Tuenti en directo y proponiendo a los que asistieron al evento recuperar el código y seguir el desarrollo.

Los chicos de Mozilla Hispano (y en particular Nukeador) decidieron tomar las cosas en serio y lanzar el desarrollo comunitario de la extensión a través de sus foros, ¡¡todo un éxito!!

Al final hemos aprendido muchas cosas de este experimento:

  • Basar el taller en un proyecto concreto y adaptado al mercado local era una buena idea para motivar un público con pocos conocimientos de las tecnologías mozilla. Cosa que no habíamos hecho en Francia porqué ya tenemos allí una comunidad fuerte de desarrolladores XUL con sus propios proyectos.
  • Continuar el proyecto a través de los foros de Mozilla Hispano era una excelente idea, primero porque nos da una herramienta de medida del éxito del taller, y segundo porque fortalece nuestra comunidad española.
  • Colaborar con Libresoft de la universidad rey Juan Carlos para organizar la logística del taller era también una buena idea

Dentro de un par de semanas estaremos todos en FOSDEM y podremos hablar todos juntos de cómo se organizó la creación de Tuentifox. En particular, estaría interesante ver si este modelo de desarrollo es reproductible en otros paises Europeos y si podría fomentar la creación de una comunidad local de desarrolladores de extensiones para Mozilla.

lundi 12 janvier 2009

7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me

7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me

It eventually had to happen, I have been tagged by Stas so here is a few dirty little secrets about me :)

The rules:

  1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
  2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
  3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
  4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Seven things:

  1. I was a bee-keeper when I was a kid, with two hives in the garden. My record production was 20 kilos of honey (not great but I was just a kid ;) ).
  2. Before working professionnally for Mozilla I was running an office furniture business that I created in 2001 and was working with my little sister. She is now running the family business but I still give a hand for paperwork and everything computers.
  3. 2001 is also the year when I started my involvement in the Mozilla project, helping people in forums, being a nightly build tester and later doing community Tech Evangelism. That's how I met Tristan on Usenet, he was working for Netscape Europe Tech Evang team.
  4. I spent a semester in Wolverhampton as an ERASMUS student in 1995. It was one of the greatest periods of my life and I met amazing people. Some of these people have become close friends and I actually am going to have dinner with one of them tonight :)
  5. I spent a year working as a hall monitor in a ghetto school, this was an alternative to military service (yes, I am old enough to have known the last years of conscription in France :) ) and this was an interesting experience, especially since I have always been interested in education.
  6. I worked several years as a part-time translator during my studies for a company called Linguatech localizing software for companies like Microsoft or IBM. Few people know it, but I was part of the team that translated the help files for IE 4!
  7. To validate my master's degree in international business, I spent 7 months in Alcatel's competitive intelligence department working on quantitative analysis and building a small intranet. Professionnally I learned a lot from this experience, in large parts thanks to my mentor Alain Pradelle.

Ok, now my victims :) :

  • Juantomás García, famous Spanish open source hacker. Because he is a great guy and he helps Mozilla a lot with his contacts in the Spanish market. He is also an incredible source of funny stories!
  • Fabien Cazenave, AKA Kazé, the guy behind KompoZer. Because he has a blog that should be syndicated on planet but isn't :)
  • Nukeador, our relentless Spanish web localizer :)
  • Henrik Skupin our German Web localizer and now part of Mozilla QA team
  • Axel Hecht fellow Mozilla Europe board member, fellow l10n-driver and rum baba lover !
  • Delphine Lebédel who just joined the European Mozilla team to help on community events and other community related tasks, I know you have already been tagged by Stas so you can't escape!
  • and finally Kalman Kemenczy our Hungarian localizer who does not blog in English but maybe this could make him change his mind ;)