Carlos Soriano

@csoriano
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Lover of walkable and liveable cities, European cultures and nature.
Senior Engineering manager of the GPU + Accelerators group at Red Hat.

We are 25 Friends of GNOME away from reaching 1000!! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

We would love if you could help us cross the next big milestone!

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RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116330461750922709

We can’t afford not to have GNOME when Big Tech already has so much influence on our lives.

If you can afford it, give them the financial force to build systems that work for all of us.

#bigTech #sovereignty #linux

We had to start charging the electric car from the grid this week due to bad weather and shorter days, but between this week and mid-April, when we got the car, we charged it exclusively from solar power. Six months and six thousand kilometers. Not bad.

#ElectricVehicle #electromobility #renewables #photovoltaic #renewableenergy

Of course I would prefer no cars at all, but this is certainly an improvement…

Time to write proposals for GSoC 2025 with GNOME!

It is that time of the year again when we start gathering ideas and mentors for Google Summer Code.

@Mentors, please submit new proposals in our Project ideas GitLab repository before the end of January.

Proposals will be reviewed by the GNOME GSoC Admins and posted in https://gsoc.gnome.org/2025 when approved.

If you have any doubts, please don’t hesitate to contact the GNOME Internship Committee.

https://feborg.es/time-to-write-proposals-for-gsoc-2025-with-gnome/

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more developers into open source software development.

@vbabka so this is mostly informed by attending a pile of community leadership conferences, reading some books and my personal experience. I see three elements of effective coc enforcement

1. working to improve behavior with the people who need to change in private. in my experience that works out surprisingly often

2. use sanctions to protect your community from bad behavior, but not as a tool to force change. or at least not a primary tool, a suspension can be useful as a timeout

My latest video is finally ready (and it almost broke me).

It's a collection of all of my thoughts about self-driving cars ... and it's nearly an hour long. 😱 I've been working on this video in the background for two years, and intensely for the past two months.

My next few videos are going to have to be shorter and more straightforward or I'm going to lose my mind. πŸ˜‚

It's up on Nebula first for now:

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-selfdriving-cars-will-destroy-cities

Not Just Bikes β€” How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities

Are self-driving cars a fanciful pipe-dream or are they the future of transportation? I don't know, but there's one thing I am sure of though: they're currently on track to fundamentally destroy the fabric of our cities.

Nebula
Last day of #XDC2024 in Montreal. Today our colleague @melissa will be heading the Display/KMS meeting together with Rodrigo Siqueira. Don't miss it! Full schedule here: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/timetable/#20241011.detailed
XDC 2024 - X.Org Developer's Conference 2024

Indico

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DRM-Panic-Patch

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver