«Producir y nutrir,
producir y no poseer,
obrar y no retener,
acrecentar y no regir,
son el misterio de la vida.»
«Chris stared out of the window», a theological tale
My English class. You should write an story starting with 🙶Chris stared out of the window waiting for the phone to ring🙷. Let’s do it.
Chris stared out of the window waiting for the phone to ring. He looked into the void while his mind wandered. Time is passing, but it is not. For an eternal being all time is present, but not always is time present. The past, the future are just states of mind for an overlord. But he is still waiting for the phone to ring. Time is coming. The decision was made. It had always been made, before time existed indeed. Chris knows all the details of the plan. He knows because he is God too. He knows because he conceived it. No matter if he had been waiting for the starting signal. No matter if he expects the Holly Spirit to announce it to him. You can can call it protocol. He knows because he had decided how to do it. But Chris doubts. He is God. He is Holly Spirit. But he has been human too. The remembrance of his humanity brings him to a controversial state of mind. Now he doubts. He has been always doubting since the world is the world and before the existence of time. And after too, because he is an eternal being. He now relives the feelings of being a human. He relives all the feelings to be all the humans. He revisits joy and pain. Joy is good, sure. But joy is is nothing special for an overlord god. But pain… pain matters for a human — and Chris has been a human. Chris knows. Chris feels. Chris understands how sad human life can be. Chris knows because he is the Father creator. He created humans. He knows how mediocrity drives the character of all the creatures privileged with consciousness. A poisoned gift. He knows how evil is always just an expression of insecurities, the lack of certainty of what will happen tomorrow. What will happen just the next second. 🙶Will I be alive? Will be the pain still exists?🙷. He knows because he feels. And he doubts because he feels. He feels it can’t be fair to judge, to condemn, to punish a living being because it was created in that way. This would not be the full of love god the Evangelists announced. How could he punish for a sin he was the cause of. But, if not, can it be fair to all the others who behave according the Word. All of those, maybe with love, maybe will pain, maybe just for selfishness, fulfilled God’s proposal of virtue and goodness. How can not distinguish their works, to award their efforts. How can it be fair. How can he be good. His is the power and the glory. He is in doubt. The phone rings.
Some GNOME / LAS / Wikimedia love
For some time to know I’ve dedicating some more time to Wikimedia related activities. I love to share this time with other opensource communities I’m related to. This post is just to write down a list of items/resources I’ve created related with events in this domain.
Wikidata
If you don’t know about Wikidata probably you’ll look at it because it’ll be the most important linked data corpora in the world. In the future we will use WD as the cornerstone of many applications. Remember you read this here first.
About GUADEC:
About GNOME.Asia:
About LAS 2019:
And about the previous LAS format:
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is my current favorite place to publish pictures with open licensing these days. To me is the ideal place to publish reusable resources with explicit Creative Commons open licensing. And you can contribute with your own media without intermediaries.
About GUADEC:
About GNOME.Asia:
About LAS:
- Category:Libre Application Summit
- Category:Libre Application Summit 2018
- Category:Linux App Summit
- Category:Linux App Summit 2019
Epilogue
As you can check the list is not complete neither all items are fully described. I invite you to complete all the information you want. For Wikidata there are many places where ask help. And for WikiCommons you can help uploading your own pictures. If you have doubts just use current examples as references or ask me directly.
Linux Applications Summit 2019 activity
Here it is a summary about my activities at the past Linux App Summit this month in Barcelona.
My first goal has been spreading the word about the Indico conference management system. This was in part done with a lightning talk. Sadly I couldn’t show my slides but here they are for your convenience. Anyhow they are not particularly relevant.
Also @KristiProgri asked me to help taking pictures of the event. I’m probably the worst photographer in the world and I don’t have special interest in photography as a hobby but for some months I’m trying to take documentary pictures supposedly relevant for the Wikimedia projects. The good thing is seems I’m getting better, specially since I changed to a new smartphone with it’s making magic with my pictures. Y just use a mere Moto G7+ smartphone but it’s making me really happy with the results, exceeding any of my expectations. Just to say I found the standard camera application doesn’t work well for me when photographing moving targets but I’m doing better indeed with the wonderful Open Camera Android opensource application.
I uploaded my pictures to Category:Linux App Summit 2019. Please consider to add yours to the same category.
Related with this I added items to Wikidata too.
Also helped a bit sharing pics in Twitter #LinuxAppSummit:
https://x.com/olea/status/1194583401635991552 https://x.com/olea/status/1194613341269975042 https://x.com/olea/status/1194550203166208005
And finally, I helped the local team with some minor tasks like moving items and so.
I want to congratulate all the organization team and specially the local team for the results and the love they have put in the event. The results have been excellent and this is another strong step for the interweaved relations between opensource development communities sharing very near goals.
My participation at the conference has been sponsored by the GNOME Foundation. Thanks very much for their support.