For your convenience I’ve compiled in just one file the book Software Quality Assurance by Claude Y. Laporte and Alain April. The book is provided for free download at the publisher website as separated files. Download the full book.

About the book: «This book introduces Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and provides an overview of standards used to implement SQA. It defines ways to assess the effectiveness of how one approaches software quality across key industry sectors such as telecommunications, transport, defense, and aerospace.»

It is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Claude Y. Laporte is the editor of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard of software engineering for very small entities (VSE).

PD: Added licencing details.

PD (2024/08/15): Removed the book’s file because Wiley made a DMCA request for a content they let for free download. Whatever.

It took me a while but now I can gave you some stats from GUADEC 2018, following past year Sam’s example.

They are very rough but I hope informative.

• Attendees: 207 (and about 215 registered), two less than 2017.
• 9 days: 2 days boards meetings, 3 for conferences and 4 for BoFs and workshops.
• 44 talks and videos.
• 35 BoFs and workshops.
• 3 great parties, including the flamenco show by «la Chinelita and group».
• About economics just to say it was very successful. Thanks a lot to our sponsors and donnors. And special kudos to the sponsoring team for such impresive job.
• The medium age was 32.7, from the 143 persons who provided their age. Minimum age was 15 and maxium 61.
• The Spanish attendants were 43, 20.8% of the total. Significative presence from the UK with 20%.
• The maximum of persons per day hosted at Civitas residence where 75. I would have expected a bigger number but some factors affected: GUADEC dates were in high season with a particular peak because some local events (at some point there were not a single room available in Almería city), other was a coincidence with a university summer course and finally many people tried to book at Civitas very late.

The attendees who filled they country of residence, by country:

The GUADEC occupancy at Civitas were:

Thanks Benjamin Berg for helping to collect the data.

Thank you all for visiting us in Almería. Don’t forget to come back :-)

PD: post edited at 2018/11/15 adding details of residence occupancy.

In a previous entry I put the data I’ve collected about Wacom digitizer tablets. Collecting the data took to me more time I really wished. But now I’m happy to publish an exhaustive list thanks to Carlos Garnacho:

As a reference these are the standards DIN sizes comparable with those models:

The source of this data is directly from the Wacom driver and is extracted with this C program Carlos provided:

/* Build with:
 *   gcc -o wacomfoo `pkg-config --libs --cflags libwacom` wacomfoo.c
 */
 
#define IN_TO_MM 25.4
 
#include <libwacom/libwacom.h>
 
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  const WacomDeviceDatabase *db;
  WacomDevice **devices;
  int i;
 
  db = libwacom_database_new ();
  devices = libwacom_list_devices_from_database (db, NULL);
  printf ("| model | active area size mm | active area size in | \n");
  printf ("|:--------- |:--------- |:--------- | \n");

  for (i = 0; devices[i] != NULL; i++)
    {
      if (libwacom_get_width (devices[i]) == 0)
        continue;
      printf ("| %s | %.f ✕ %.f mm | %.f ✕ %.f in | \n",
              libwacom_get_name (devices[i]),
              (double) libwacom_get_width (devices[i]) * IN_TO_MM,
              (double) libwacom_get_height (devices[i]) * IN_TO_MM,
              (double) libwacom_get_width (devices[i]),
              (double) libwacom_get_height (devices[i]));
    }
  return 0;
}

PD: Fixed the correct value for milimeters per inch.