Barcamp Shanghai Logo

But the most important thing is that I finally met the community in Shanghai. It takes time to do anything here when you don’t speak the local language and you don’t live at the right side of the river. The community in Shanghai is a very international mix of Hackers, Open Software fanatics, Apple zealots, masters of the electron and Social media gurus. All of them got together to share ideas and pizza.

All of them using my language.

Barcamp seating area.

Thanks to msittig for the picture.

What had the application improved this last week?

1. Better architecture. I split the web frontend (the web application you can see on facebook) completely of the VoIP backend (the call manager) on two different servers running on different locations. Now the application is ready to scale.
2. Way better sound quality. AMG (a local network service provider) lent me a provisional SIP account, more than enough to improve 1000% call’s reliability and sound quality. I need more accounts for reliability reasons, though, is someone interested?
3. Completely new user interface. Polished, a lot more integrated on facebook, making use of facebook widgets. A long way to go, though, but a lot better than the pre-release version you could saw on video last week. Now it’s time for user usability reporting and web2.0 effects
4. Multilingual. The application works, so what is the reason to reduce their commercial potential focusing only on the Spanish market? No reason. As facebook didn’t provide yet the multilingual capabilities I designed the application to understand Spanish and English, and Vasque, French and German translations are coming soon. Catalian anyone?
5. Developer corner. I’m the only one developer but I like to work on a complete environment. Nowadays the application had a subversion repository, a wiki with my last thoughts and documentation and a bug reporting software for me and betatesters (some techie friends)
6. Bugfixing. Lots and lots of bugs had been resolved, and lots of new ones are being fixed every single day.

I continue to have ideas to improve the functionality or reliability of the application. I’m thinking in several cool improvements. I don’t know if the application will be ready to enter an open beta state on time (maybe by the middle of next week?) but for sure at the beginning it will have less functionality than other VoIP applications.

Don’t complain! It’s working, it’s a complex system with lots of components and has been programmed on a garage

The result is that when the desktop finish loading, the applications open instantly. I’ve never used a desktop as responsible as puppy linux. It remembers me when I tested BeOS. ¿Circa 2001? Anyway, seems like an eternity from now. It’s really easy to use and I think is a good software for schools, because they will be able to recycle old computers and because is super simple and it just works!

It’s a really cool and useful operative system. For normal people is not only as a curiosity, it’s a tool easy to use and with all the software they can need. For the techies is interesting because it’s small and fast and has details as coming with strong encryption by default. Besides, as my main tool is the browser, this distro has basically 90% of the software I need using only 60MB.

The only thing I dislike is the website. It’s retro but I don’t think that on purpose.
Appear to be designed by and engineer!