Sumarizing 2010

After being so "silent" in my Open Source world, i need to sumarize the last year.

It could look that i leave the FOSS world, but nothing further from the truth. I've been FOSS advocate at my actual company, improving our FOSS ecosystem.
I had to fight in some fronts of the Computer Science that i never had contact with before:

• I had a combat with binutils/gcc/newlib for ColdFire v1 devices, and i win (we get a multi platform toolchain ready to work), both Windows and Linux builds are working fine.


• I also deal with other compiler: SDCC. It was hard, but it's our official PIC compiler :D


• Configure and make an application with RTAI and comedi to measure quality and some important parameters of our physical final products (it was a working proof of concept, we need to improve it a little bit, but it's working). In the while i have to evaluate the use of Scicoslab, RTAI-Lab, Scicos-Hil, Scilab, Xenomai, RT-PREEMPT patch and robotics frameworks like Orocos.


• I get hands dirty with LTSP, as sys-admin, and i configured some servers and services.


• And some other propietary stuff or internal work.

Unfortunately, i didn't found time to work with Efika-MX, Ben-NanoNote and carry on hacking my Neo Freerunner (between all my hw toys), neither post some words about my advances. But, at the end of the day i did nice FOSS development, and i also touch the Linux kernel, in a personal way.
So... 2010 was not a bad year :)

My 0x1F day

As a bit mask, today is my 0x1F (31) birthday (i´m almost 0x20). But the day is going ok.

A lot of changes happens lately:

• In my personal life, i moved my house from Spain to Brazil (really big change). One of the best consequence of this movement is the people i met at my new job, really nice people with a nice job.
• In the job side i´ m working in a open-minded company for the hardwar/embedded path. That gets me happier.
  

So i´m comfortable and almost fully installed in my new home.

In the Open projects side, i´m improving my knowledge and i´m proud to announce that Wolfgang added me to the qie-hardware planet [1] :)
I´ve been testing the Ben Nanonote. A wonderful and amazing gadget that promise a lot. Wolfgang, with his efforts, is also engaging me to all the projects they are raising. I love the Milkymist project and the SAKC is a good hardware device for approaching the FPGA development. He is also encouraging some open-like hardware projects & putting them (or us) in contact to deal with "open philosophy" together.

Thanks Wolfgang & all the people involved in Qi-hardware. Some of them: Mirko. Xiao. Adam. .... & some old friends Tuxbrain (David & Victor), Ida Systems (Rakshat) I hope to see more people involved & growing this community effort.

See you soon.

[1] http://en.qi-hardware.com/planet/