Google+ and your data

Let's make it clear: Your data is yours and in Google+ official announcement there's the following "You and over a billion others trust Google, and we don’t take this lightly. In fact we’ve focused on the user for over a decade: liberating data, ...". John Goerzen is wrong.

I can understand people having problems to use a product during its field trial and demanding features. I won't sit and watch people spreading FUD in bold before asking though.

Last, but not least, the following link is easily visible in the Settings and is also listed in the Help pages:
https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata

Gooooogle!

We will celebrate Independency Day here in Brazil tomorrow (the year was 1822 for those into world history). I took the time to visit Belo Horizonte and meet a few googlers I don't see in a while. The cool part is that Rodrigo and his wife Ellen are also in town. We (me and Rodrigo) used to work in the same team at Google here in Belo, he's now living in Zurich.

I would like to let you know that I'll be rejoining Google in a month or so!

For those out of the loop: I quit Google San Francisco a few months ago to get back to Rio de Janeiro in order to assist my family with some complicated issues. They were all sorted out and Google rehired me! How cool is that?

I'm glad to be part of Google Site Reliability Engineering again and looking forward to meet all the Debian Developers in Mountain View and San Francisco. I've met Andy and a few others already. Please stop by and say hi!

Frans Pop

It feels like it was yesterday that I was talking all things d-i with Felipe (faw) and Otavio during the last International Free Software Forum and discuss d-i without mentioning Frans Pop and Joey Hess at least a couple of times is definitely not the same thing.

Otavio convinced me to help and I promptly synced with him and Daniel Baumann to deliver an alpha quality syslinux-installer udeb; that was during debconf a bit after the forum, that they've all attended and I couldn't.

I feel I can't let it pass without a post, now that we've put out a notice about our loss. RIP Frans. :/