A week after, I’ll write about the Guademy that GPUL celebrated in the Faculty of Computer Science(FIC) of UDC. I still wonder how in near four months Bille, Chema and Millán organized maybe the best event ever in our free software group. We had the reference of the CTSL’05, but this hackmeeting was planned as a more informal one.
Well, that’s I live those days: on thursday I still was ill because a bronchus problem that began three weeks before. But I must get up to prepare the cameras to record the speeches. That would be my main work through the weekend. I went to FIC in the afternoon, and I spent all the evening ensuring I wouldn’t delete on any record of the documentary I began to film last year about the history of GPUL. That evening arrived the young Rafa Fernandez from KDE and Carlos Garnacho and Esteban Sánchez (Steve-o) from Gnome. Meanwhile, outside of 0.00 office, the anual wild ‘San Pepe’ party. We were worry because the hackmeeting zone was dirty with trash and beer…
…But we had a marvellous reaction of cleaning service. While we had the opening act at ten o’clock on friday, they left perfectly cleaned the floor. At eleven o’clock, Bille begun the fire talking about QtJambi. Guademy on! Around the noon, the audience was meaningful.
We went massively to have lunch to the canteen of the Faculty of Laws, we had reserved some tables. I eat fastly to go back to FIC to take over somebody from the reception. I received Susana González and Iago Toural from Igalia, but as I forgot ask about the procedure, they must wait until Chema went back to FIC. In that dead time, Jacobo show us his new juggling with balls and hoops 
The evening was pleasant, and we had a chance to talk with our guests around a coffee. I could leave the cameras some time because David Codesido needed some help to get ready the wireless net at the Elviña stadium room where some of the guademyers would sleep in sleeping bags. So I missed the interesting speech about multithreading computing. Finally sessions ended around nine o’clock. Then we had a fun dinner with Galician empanada and pizzas. I wanted to taste the vegetables empanada, but it was reserved to Aaron Seigo (he’s vegetarian). It seemed it was delicious.
The great moment of the night was the broadcast all-around-the-world of the queimada. Everybody was happy, singing around the fire. I called by phone to Benji, that was in Madrid, also I commented it in the #dudes channel at OFTC. People was laughing and singing when Emilio and me went to airport to bring Antonio Larrosa. When we were back to FIC, some people where going down to the pubs zone of Coruña. Another part were going to sleep to the stadium, then I went with Kabute and friends (GULO people) to my Civil Engineers School first party in the year. We were tired, so, in a hour GULO people went back to the stadium and, after a pair of cuba libres explaining to my friend Antón what laptop he must buy, I followed them.
When I arrived to the room, somebody had brought a Wii and a projector and there was a boxing championship I opened my laptop and read emails. Bille showed some beer cans. I didn’t want drink more alcohol, but he dared me so I joined to the group outside in the stadium with both David, De La Vega, Bille, Alba, Henrique and Millán. That was a strange, drizziling beauty night. When we were cold, we returned into the room. Around five o’clock, Bille showed us how bad he is playing mus. Then we went to sleep.
The Saturday would be the hardest day of Guademy. I needed to fill the black Guademy mug with coffee to be ready. That morning we began to parallelize the sessions. Pich would help me with the 2nd camera, but he got ill so I must improvise some assistants.
On saturday the campus canteens are closed, so we had hired the catering of the Faculty (Catering Ricosme) to open the canteen and serve us the lunch. It was the worst, ashaming moment of the Guademy. They served us a lone, disgusting dish and they charged us the double they charge in a working day. Bille, Emilio and Mary (Emilio’s wife) conspirated to fire the catering the next day, as they did.
The next anger came when we didn’t find the person in charge to open us the futsal court. But finally, the historical match Gnome vs KDE was played. And the result: 5-2 winner Gnome KDE people said “Gnome people couldn’t do badly everything” 
Most sessions. I recorded Andrés Gómez workshop about amazing Nokia 800 and Maemo (hi, Mooch). And when it ended we all went to hear Aaron Seigo talking about the near future of KDE. As Bille ordered me, I recorded this speech with the two cameras 
Saturday dinner was in A Cervexa. The menu was highly better than lunch, and the 4 l beer tubes do the rest. People went out very… happy We the fourty went on foot to the pubs zone. The night began in the Eclipse pub (what a coincidence!) and… I think it’s not a good idea write about the next hours … I returned around six o’clock with some Coruña people that left Rafa, Ivan Frade (from AsturLinux) and me in the stadium, talking about OpenSolaris and Dtrace. We are freaks…
Sunday, 11AM. We delayed Steve-o’s hacking session on buoh because public was still arriving from the binge. The last sessions where parallelized again, and I ask for record Álvaro Lopez Ortega‘s speech on OpenSolaris Desktop that turned in Sun’s free software policy I shooted him some questions “with spin”, but, in fact, as you can read in this blog, I’m very happy with Sun’s attitude. And after Alvaro’s speech, I’m thinking in opening a new section entitled “I love Sun Microsystems”.
Guademy finished with a better lunch than the day before. Emilio ordered a pair of roasted hams in the same bakery where they buyed the empanadas. I could talk with Ignacio a.k.a. Walter, a legend in the missing Coruña hackers group of the beginning of 90′s G.R.E.L.O. (Grupo Radical de Elementos Levemente Organizados, Radical Group of Slighty Organized Elements). After lunch some people began to go home, but we could take a photo of a great part of the group (ALO’s photoblog). I think people went away happy…
Guademy was a very important event for GPUL. It have been an important step for the GPUL world domination (we were mentioned as international LUG of the month by Linux Format magazine). And, it’s more important: a new little group of programmers is now beginning new projects based in GTK and Qt