It looks like it was yesterday that I firstly flew to EU to meet some Fedora guys at the FUDCon in Brno. At that time, September of 2008, I had just finished my GSoC application and lots of ideas were going around our minds (Me and Dimitris Glezos), mainly about what we should do about Transifex.

My first time in Greece, Dimitris’ country, allowed us to discuss many things, including the redesign of Transifex. I remember we realized we had in our hands an idea that, at least for us, could sound very promising and with lots of potential. We were kinda anxious and unsure on how we should push things on, but we had a shared common feeling -  We need to do something.

Time Flies by Bichuas (E. Carton)

In a long short history, I came back to Brazil in November of 2008 and 3 months later I was working full time on Transifex as an Indifexian. February of 2009 was a mark for me. At that period, my life was kinda turned up side down, not in a bad way, just in a complete different way. New challenges and horizons  just shown up and it’s been like this until now, 1 year later.

Today we are not anymore 2 crazy guys, locked down in an apartment, ordering food and hacking most of the time during the night.  The team has increased and we are really happy about it. We keep working hard to hit our goals seeking ways to make ‘Translations a click away’. Talking about it, Transifex 0.8alpha is just out, be sure to take a look at the new features.

Happy translations!

Ahh… I can’t resist it… So I’m gonna tell you:

We’ve found a dancer among us.

Since Toshio got Brazil he can’t stop dancing… even when there is no music! (seriously… hahaha).

Does anyone know where is the switch to turn him off?

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Argh I don’t have any photo from Toshio dancing… but I will find it out. I promise!

That was a very interesting experience. We had some good discussions, laughs with Max’s cat called Scooby (yes, cat called Scooby), lunches/dinners and also a very busy week. I and Dimitris could only walk around the city during the day one day part time on the week. Anyway, even with no much time, we managed to visit the Heineken Experience and some places around Max’s place.

I could leave Amsterdam without ride a bike, but I could not leave Amsterdam without walk at least 3 times on the Red Light District.

Finally, on Friday before we leave, Max did an interview about the Fedora Localization Project and Transifex with us. You can find the Ogg file on his blog post.

Thanks, Max, for everything and mainly for your hospitality.

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Going back…

Friday night, after Max picked us up at the airport we came to his interesting apartment, as Greg told me. After that we went to a Thai restaurant to eat something, drink a beer and catch up on the news. Thai food is awesome!

Yesterday morning we went for a walk around the city to buy some stuff and do some sightseeing. On afternoon, Jeroen, a Dutch Fedora guy, joined us at Max place and we had a day of discussions and some hacking. At night we went to have an Argentine dinner (I don’t know why, but the three of them were enjoying seeing me there) with some typical meat dishes from South of America. As long as Dimitris is not a true vegetarian, the four of us had a meat dish each.

/me runs

Amsterdam – Netherlands

Right now we are in Athens and in a few hours we will be at the airport.

/me woke up very early today and need some more coffee.