Considerations of a wayfarer

I'm sitting down in front of the lake thinking of which steps took me here.

How could I have predicted what happened last week?
I lived until now just touching every now and then the helm with a finger, letting the ship follow currents and wind. I met dolphins and storms and they both contributed in building my person.

It's amazing how I can mix up immediate decisions and such changes in direction in my life. It seems that what I don't plan is in fact the core of my life. I'm just in the right place in the right moment. I don't know if the path of events was different, then I would have become someone else... Maybe I'll never have the chance to know this...
But it's not the point. I always meet people that have something to teach me. People that prove that my trust is well placed, that humanity goes over laws of business and nature and it is real.

Another point is that great part of the decisions above come from other people and the remnant are simply random. I have to thank so many people for their suggestions. They showed me entire universes I was completely unaware of.

Thank you all :)

Steven Curtis Chapman, "Remembering You" - Chronicles of Narnia Soundtrack

I found you in the most unlikely way
But really it was you who found me
And I found myself in the gifts that you gave
You gave me so much and I

I wish you could stay
but I'll, I'll wait for the day

And I watch as the cold winter melts into spring
And I'll be remembering you
Oh and I'll smell the flowers and hear the birds sing
and I'll be remembering you, I'll be remembering you

From the first moment when I heard your name
Something in my heart came alive
You showed me love and no words could explain
A love with the power to
Open the door
To a world I was made for

And I watch as the cold winter melts into spring
And I'll be remembering you
Oh and I'll smell the flowers and hear the birds sing
and I'll be remembering you, I'll be remembering you

The dark night, the hard fight
The long climb up the hill knowing the cost
The brave death, the last breathe
The silence whispering all hope was lost
The thunder, the wonder
A power that brings the dead back to life

I wish you could stay
But I'll wait for the day
And though you've gone away
You come back and

And I watch as the cold winter melts into spring
And I'll be remembering you
Oh and I'll smell the flowers and hear the birds sing
and I'll be remembering you, I'll be remembering you

And I'll watch as the sun fills a sky that was dark
And I'll be remembering you
And I'll think of the way that you fill up my heart
And I'll be remembering you

-- to Tyler

OSGeo Hacking Event in Bolsena, 21-27 June 2009

Wow.
The hackfest has just ended and I am still trying to collect all things that happened in this week.
There were programmers from around the world, whose differences are crumbs in respect to the main direction we are all going to.
Amazing, unbelievable how human we are, and how bright is the light shining from this group of people. It makes me stronger believe that some kind of ethics is still alive and can get the world strive to happiness.
Thank you all for your priceless clearness of thought and heart sincerity. This could make me say that there is a god somewhere above clouds that made us find each other, but also that quantum mechanics could one day explain these miracles. How I feel to share with you that light that is part of maybe all human beings, for sure the ones that last evening didn't feel ashamed to say: I'm weak, I get angry, I'm inappropriate, I'm ignorant, I'm human, I'm here and want to make the world a better place, hence putting on the table their own life.

Looking forward to see you all soon!

Pregi

Vorrei avere la sua pazienza.
Quante volte al suo posto avrei alzato la voce o mandato tutto a pascolare. E ha avuto sempre ragione lui, finora, a sopportare e aspettare i risultati.

Vorrei avere la sua capacità di vedere i pregi altrui.
Quante volte ho targato il prossimo con la prima impressione, e molte volte sbagliavo, e lui me lo ha dimostrato.

Vorrei avere la sua concentrazione.
Per molto meno mi sono distratta suonando, di fronte a lui che invece nonostante i suoi pensieri quando suona non fa altro.

Vorrei avere la sua umiltà.
Più di una volta mi sono scoperta a vantarmi di quello che so fare, e lui ne fa ben di più e non lo grida ai quattro venti.

GSoC 2009 con GRASS GIS!

Ebbene sì... secondo Google Summer of Code! Sempre con OSGeo, stavolta a sviluppare un modulo in GRASS GIS sul kriging, combinando GRASS e R e [wx]Python. Un'altra estate in codice!