My first contribution to FSFE Catalan translation.

Today is a great day!! I got accepted my first translation in FSFE. I'm quite happy, but this contribution won't be alone, I'll continuing contributing to Catalan community at FSFE.

You could reach my first translation at FSFE website.

An interesting scholarship contest

Linux.com is reporting an interesting contest on patentability, any one from Catalan countries interested to apply?

Linux.com is reporting that the End Software Patents project is launching several new initiatives to help drive support for their cause. Among the new methods are a web site, a report on the state of patents in the US, and a scholarship contest promising to award $10,000 "for the best paper on the effects of the patentability of software and business methods under US law." "The project is being launched with initial funding of a quarter million dollars, supplied primarily by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Under the directorship of Ben Klemens, a long-time advocate of software patent abolition best-known for the book Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software, the project is being supported by the FSF, the Public Patent Foundation, and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). One of ESP's goals is to enlist support from academics, software developers, legal experts, and business executives. Its initial supporters show that the project is already well on its way to building such a coalition."

Pròximes Jornades de Programari Lliure a la UOC

Des de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya estic intentat d'ajuntar un grup de gent interessada en organitzat l'edició 2009 de les Jornades de Programari Lliure a la UOC. Estic segur que podem trobar un grup d'estudiants UOC interessants en tirar endavant el projecte, que se de bon grat que hi ha molts implicats al programari lliure a la UOC. Si voleu més informació, i/o col·laborar he creat un wiki pública on tothom pugui participar en elaborar una proposta per a la Universitat.

Més informació a: http://jornadesuoc.wikidot.com/start

Back from fosdem

Back from Fosdem and with some interesting thought about Free software, and this kind of events. Tomorrow I'll write something about it, but for now I must have a rest (I had five days of intense moving on some events).

Families mileuristes comences a necessitar ajuda d'ONG

Trist és que estem vivint actualment i ja moltes famílies de la mal anomenada classe mitjana, necessiten ajuda social per arribar a final de més. Trist és veure com això no és pas una cosa inesperable i que de ben segur veurem més.

Hasta hace unos meses, entre los dos, llegaban a final de mes, a pesar de haberse metido en la compra de una vivienda hace tres o cuatro años. La suma de sus ingresos superaba los 1.700 euros y -aunque no había para excesos-, tiraban. Ahora, víctimas del paro, de la subida de las hipotecas y del precio de los alimentos, se han visto obligados a pedir ayuda a una ong por primera vez en su vida.

Font: Diario sur.

Belgium Salary Survey

Median Salary by Job - All People in All Surveys (Belgium)

One short comment, when we'll see this in Spain?. As a Senior Software Engineer I'll never be paid as this survey, for Belgium, shows us. I hope my Country will change him mind, because If we doesn't change we'll give our child a non friendly place to live.

L'Habitatge al Japó

Avui un enllaç per tots aquells que no veuen el futur que ens espera. Al Japó el preu mitjà de l'habitatge està molt per sota del nostre,

L'any 2006:

Tokyo 2012 EUR/m2
Yokohama 1172 EUR/m2
Osaka 1016 EUR/m2.

Font: Immobilier Japon