It’s hard to write this post, but I need to write to honor André Gondim. The notice came through twitter, later I confirmed through his facebook. He just passed away, due some complications with his health.

André Gondim was one of the major contributors of Ubuntu Brazil. He was the leader of Brazilian Council and leader of the brazilian translators team. I always said to him that he was a “non-translated strings hunter”.

I can’t write anymore. I’m at UDS and all here who knew him is very chocked.

More about him:

Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~andregondim
Site: http://en.andregondim.eti.br
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andregondim
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/andregondim

I would like to invite you all to my new site: A Programmer’s Life

This site is a translation of my brazilian portuguese site Vida de Programador, with daily strips about the programmer’s life.

I hope you enjoy it (and follow @ProgrammersLife)

It’s a 3D game, simple and nice…

To install on Ubuntu, go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center and search for “armagetron”:

Click install.

Now you can find it on Applications > Games > Armagetron Advanced.

It’s based on the old movie, but it’s very nice.

Tip: at the first time, don’t forget to configure the keyboard (Player Setup > Player 1 Settings > Input Configuration).

You also can play it online.

FISL 11 was very good, altough some technical issues. The picture below was taken at the first day, when the stands’ area was closed, yet “under construction”:

On the second day everything was stabilized and many laptops came to our “island” to be installed or to have something configured, like webcams, 3g modems…

Unfortunately many ubunteros couldn’t go, but a very good team was there, most of Sao Paulo regional team of Ubuntu-BR. A special thanks to: Kemel Zaidan, Marcos Amorim (Mosca), Alexsandro Carvalho (Muambeiro), Diego Rodrigues, Thiago Bellini, (Aspira), Kretcheu (and someone else I may forgot the name) and André Gondim, who organized many things and made the main contacts.

Kemel Zaidan, Leonardo Amaral, Andre Noel (me) and André Gondim

Also we had a nice help from Fuctura (a brazilian Canonical partner), who gave us the banner and some gifts to share. Look the pictures below when the gifts was being raffled:

5º Ubuntu Brazil National Meeting

At the last day we had the 5º Ubuntu Brazil National Meeting, where we could talk about our community, how to participate and help. It was cool, because there were people from many places and we talked especially about Ubuntu-BR Regional Teams.

Also it was nice to find/meet some persons we only talked virtually and discover that they really exists…

Install Fest

Fortunately today the Linux install is very easy and we don’t need so much install fests, but many machines was installed there (I don’t know the number). Many people liked to see this MacBook Air running Ubuntu:

Lastly, FISL 11 was very good. We met more ubunteros we could imagine. Also many others user groups was there and it was nice to talk with them. Other distros also made a nice job there.

Now, let’s go to the Latinoware, FISL 12, and many others…

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First, you have to enable two options on Labs (don’t know what’s Labs? Go to the end of the post, later came back).

Enable “Canned responses”:

And “Inserting images”:

So, click on “Compose Mail” and write a blank mail, just with your desired signature:

Then insert the image you want (look the button selected above):

It will be something like that:

Then you save you canned response:

And name it (please, a good name, easy to remember):

And this is it! You have created you signature with image!

And how can I use?

Well, write anything… Like that:

Then, insert your canned response:

And your mail will be something like that:

This is it.

Like Google says: “Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time.”

In a short way, Labs are very nice add-ons to your mail. Be careful, it addicts.

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Wow! I’m amazed! How they can do something so cool with just three circles (or elipses)?? If you want to buy one to send me, the link is: https://shop.canonical.com