Live Blue

This week’s CrashCourseWeek in the Biggest University of Lauro de Freitas, a City near Salvador in Bahia where I live. The coordinator of the course invited the Live Blue team to give 3  courses there, and as cute, flffy and cool people that we are, we are giving:

• an introduction to Linux for the non initiate, by Vito Chiarella and Moisés
• deep into C, programming secrets and code that can blow your mind, by Alexandre Raymond
• the path to become a Jedi. C++ Qt and KDE, a deep look, young padawan, you must have.

With this small effort, we are now in 100% coverage of KDE && QT && Live Blue in Bahia events, and almost 90% in Brazil,

we missed a few in brazil this year, let’s make this wont happen next year ;D

Today was the second day of it in extragear kdereview, and I tougth I should write what it is again, to remind people to test, try it, aprove it, disaprove it and use it as a toothbrush if in lack for a better tool for it.

So, a lot of people asks me “what is rocs”, and, simply it is an easy to use IDE for Graph Theory. What it does, and why an IDE for it?

It let the professor / student create a graph by plotting on the drawing area, by creating a graph file or by executing an script in javascript that will create the graph, and then he can simulate various algorithms in graph theory.

Is there any algorithm already implemented?

Nope. the idea is not to have the homework for the students, but to provide a simple graph API and a visualization area for them to implement it.

While I was doing graph theory in college, I found out that there isn’t any tool to visualize the graphs and apply algorithms to it.

searching by “Graph Algorithm Tools” over the web, the only one that I found that’s similar to mine is GDR, Graph Drawing Tool , but it’s from 1998, and sigthly outdated.

Over the emails someone said (sorry, donesn’t have an mail client here and gmail is blocked, so say your name in the comments and I will update this  ) “While we have good graph drawing programs, it’s actually cool that someone took the time to create one simple just to experiment with scripting and algorithms, this can help college students and professors alike”.

Well, that’s not exactly what he said, but the idea remains the same.

So, peace, and try out. Cheers.

And told us that it want the sideburns back.

 Dear Gearheads, there’s been an unholy, ungodly and unkdeish fact happening on the lowest part of the globe, 5 years ago, all universities had 5 to 6 hour in the morning / afternoon, and 4 hour classes in the night ( Morning, from 7 to 12, Afternoon from 1 to 5, Night from 6 to 10 ).

If the professors had 4 hours of classes per week, he got (classes * 4weeks) * salary per hour of money per month, including the months that he didn’t worked. So he could live instead of surviving. And life was good and stuff was great.

Now, in my state, there’s just a couple of universities that are still doing this kind of classes, the great majority of universities are doing one class a day, with three hours, and since all courses have 6 courses per semester, with only one class by day, all teachers that had 4hour per week of classes are now with three, but since the minimum amount of time to be graduated didn’t changed, the professors still need to give hour-classes, thus increasing the number of weeks to work.

And since them are now only giving 3 hours per class instead of 4, his paycheck is reduced by 25%. I talked with a friend that works in one of those universities, she said that she start working in january and stops in december, with 2 weeks of vacation in june and 2 in january. before that she had 2 weeks more of vacation and a 25% more of salary in her pocket.

Since the universities are now paying 25% less to the professors, I asked she if the montly fee from the students were less expensive too. “Of course not, t’s still the same price plus annual correction.”

 *sad*

Since I Promissed:

The cute banner.The cute room filled with cute people that likes cute suftware.

From left to right, just to start with a girl: Camila, Gripado, Amandinha ( Little Amanda) , Duda, Dontrememberthename1, *ME*, Amanda, Lamarque, Dontrememberthename2, Daniel. Note that Amandinha is bigger than Amanda, and that’s really not important for the rest of the topic.

The beauty and the besta.

Tomaz and Gripado, Trying to not get squashed by the ceiling, while Camila, as Atlas, holds the weigth of the world in her hands.

A Hippie Poet that Utubo found in Black Gold, and boguth 2 books from him. nice poet.

And, did you know that Belo Horizonte means Beautiful Horizon?

Credits for Utubo fot taking all the pictures.

I’v just been into Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais in Brazil ( well, It’s where I live, há. ) To promote KDE in it’s most recent installfest for 4.3. Was a very pleasant stay, I met the local Gnommies, and kdeis ( that’s one thing that gnome has better than KDE, the name of people that uses it. Gnommies rulez, but how do call people that uses KDE in a cool way? o.O )

well, I stayed in Amanda’s house. ( Amanda is a kind of Brazilian blauzahl, likes to coordinate things. ) and I ate lots and lots of local goodies. nham.

The event was a really nice surprise, since it was their first event, I didn’t expect anything much fancy, but actually it was crowed with people, with very nice talks about KDE Edu, Educational Apps for kids with inabilities, OpenStreetMap). I also gave a talk, with Amanda’s cousin, about How to improve your coding skills by helping an opensource project.

Pictures later, I Still don’t have them, waiting for a Amanda to send me ;D

Hey! long time no post! I’ve been busy, so I haven’t had time to
participateof Live Blue. Let’s get down to busines, we had 2 talks
in 2 different colleges, UNIME and UFBA, here in Salvador.
UNIME first, when we got there we tought it would be a normal
talk, with just a few participants from 3º semester on, but
we (or at least me) were surprised when we saw at least 100
students from different semesters, and everything was brightfull
and colorfull for those who had never (yet) had a kernel panic
or something like it.

There were persons from users of Konectiva 4 to people who
had never heard the differences between linux and other OSs,
so it was very difficult to know what to explain and what to
consider known, so Sandro did the best choise, wich was to
explain everything… what took a little bit longer than planed,
and Tomaz didin’t had a chance to speak. At the end we asked
if there was any question, and we just recibed 2 or 3, but when
we ended the talk, half of the people who had been sitted and
shouted pretty mutch all the time came to us and asked lot’s
of questions and opinions, so we stayed there a little bit after
finished the talk to take a time to a “free speak” about our
personal opinions and experiences.

I think lot’s of people there were interested in Free Software,
and will start to use it in home. I liked the reception of the
people there so mutch that I may do some speaches of my
own there if I have the support of the group and the collage
to do that.

Now UFBA… I don’t know if call this a paradox or a irony,
but the thing is that noone went to the speach there
(wich was ment to be just for the 1º semesters), The irony
is that most of our group studies or teaches there
(me myself am trying to enter there, because it’s one,
if not the, best collage in salvador). Including some of the
young blood of the Live Blue that should had been there, but
I’ve been told that the UFBA just sayd that there would
be no class, so most of the people went home.
So we had a huge sucess and a tremendous fail… but we can
come back to UFBA another day, also we can do a presentation
on other colleges like Ruy Barbosa (where Tomaz studies) or Area1
(where I used to study). And I wanted to use this opportunity to
ask to those of you who understand portuguese to read my
blog http://avouetom.blogspot.com
it’s as the name suggest (A Vida O Universo E Tudo O Mais -
Life Universe And Everything Else), a blog about almost everything,
especially comics, movies, games and other geekies stuffs.
Live Blue… and prosper

By: Viito F. Chiarella

I think that this thingy is quite userful, so userful that could be added to Kile, I was bored so I did a quick’n dirty colorpicker for converting rgb colours to latex colours, and my first try was to convert Oxygen pallete.

Pretty, huh:?