INdT need to hire professionals passionate by mobile, internet and technology, with excellent team work spirit.

Resumés shall be sent to the e-mail: rh_seleciona 'at' indt.org, with “DesLinux” in the subject field.

*DO NOT* send me CV's.

If you want information about what it is like working in Manaus or what to expect if you are selected (from a foreigners perspective) I will help with that, no problem.

Linux Developer

Academic Background:
Bachelor in Computer Science
Computer Engineering or
Data Processing

Language skills:
Intermediate English.

Solid knowledge in:
- GNU/Linux (Use and development)
- C/C++
- Python

I got totally into visualizing commit histories during the holidays of the Festa of São João in the North East of Brazil

I chose a cool free software project I am involved with and watched it evolving organically over time.

Here is the code swarm for the Autotest project. Autotest is a test framework written in python which I have started using to do some testing on mobile devices.

It starts off with just one or two developers 'mbligh' and 'apw' and over time the role of the central node is taken over by others notably 'showard', who wrote the Django frontend.
These patterns are also observed in other key open source projects like python and django where developers cluster around a central developer or team of developers whose quality attracts other developers and so the ball starts rolling

. It also shows the qualities needed in a lead developer i.e the ability to love your creation so much that you can let it go.
The fireworks on the project are really starting to pick up as we reach the explosions of the last month. Its one project to watch, that is for sure. :)

This information also appears on the Ubuntu Mobile Guide

Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications should:

1. install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications
2. install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/<size>/<type> (e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/myapp.png)

If 1 is done correctly, the app should show up in the UI.

If 1 and 2 are done, it will also have the right icon :)

OnlyShowIn

The  freedesktop.org has a standard

OnlyShowIn

for the application to appear in certain environments.

So you can also add

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Mobile;

to the desktop file and the icon will appear on the desktop.

Also something to note:

For example, cheese does not have

OnlyShowIn

but it appears in hildon desktop...others also do not have

OnlyShowIn

and do not appear..it seems that there is some special
implementation for ubuntu mobile which is seen in the gconf keys:

/desktop/hildon/htmlhomeplugin/onlyshowin_filter

Check

OnlyShowIn

value in .desktop. If

_False_

then every .desktop is shown and

/onlyshowin_ignore

Always show these apps, even if they don't have

OnlyShowIn

Cheese is in this list hence it is always shown

Apparently this key should go away when *every* application is a good citizen and complies to the freedesktop.org standards.

I am here with the rest of the guys from Manaus at INdT

doing some crazily cool stuff with Canola and well, forging

ideas basically.

It is incredibly cool here if you are a nerd but its not

all work, right. Some of us

took off to Maragogi in the next state called Alagoas.

We ended up going diving

which was incredible as we saw so many fish

and very relaxing. A perfect weekend to recharge the

batteries ready for the next coding sprint.

I love Brazil!

After the GPS enabled web applicationI created seemed to work in theory it arrived the time to test it in practice.

I decided to GPS mark all of the floating bars along the

Tarumã Açu (which is the first 'tributary' after leaving Manaus).

This is probably not so useful really as floating bars, well, float around the river basically but it is like most enjoyable things in life: good while it lasts.

I rounded up the usual suspects

prepared the technology

and off we set in Clives' amazing GPS

enabled boat, plotting bars

as we went.

We had an encounter along the way with a huge peacock bass

which are great sport fish and fight like ninja's when you hook one.
Memories are unfortunately somewhat hazy after this so here are the waypoints in text and gdb formats.

Maguires Guesthouse and Amazon Trekkers if you are up for it

This article also appears on the community UME Guide

I had a few days during Carnaval holidays to
update Frothing to the latest and greatest
version (1.4.10) of Liferea.
There are a bunch of new translations added as
well as many bug fixes so this is a recommended
upgrade.

This work was made easy because of a dpatch I
received from Steve Kowalik. Thanks to this I got
to party a bit too..so big props going his way.

Free software development rocks.

The tarball is available from:

http://code.google.com/p/frothing/downloads/list

If you already have a device running ubuntu
mobile you can get a deb from the Launchpad
PPA. Add this line to your sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ubuntu hardy main

and do an:

apt-get update
apt-get install liferea

root@ian-laptop:/usr/local# svn checkout http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk autotest
Checked out revision 1111.

Background

If a user adds your repository to her /etc/apt/sources.list file, she can easily view and install all the packages available in it.

Getting Started