Luis Iván Cuende

The mind is supreme, and the thoughts are made in the mind; what the mind visualizes, can be made to exist by taking action

Gauthama Buddha

Ignorance is the worst evil in the world

Myself

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it

Debbi Fields

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us

Hal Borland

2011 has been the best year in my life.

Asturix OS has become one of the best operating systems, Asturix Project was created and now we have a team that is fully compromised with free software and is working to make the world a better place.

I assisted to Forum Impulsa, one of the world’s best entrepeneurship forums, where I met Tariq Krim (Netvibes and Jolicloud founder), Pau García-Milà (eyeOS founder) and Magnus Scheving (Lazytown creator).

I had one very cool idea to change the way we use computers and I made a post talking about it.

I assisted to Campus Party Valencia 2011, where I met awesome people like Jon “Maddog” Hall, one of the developers that changed the world and the godfather of Linux. He gave me 10 minutes to give a talk about Asturix On. I learnt a lot in that event.

I won HackNow, so I travelled to Berlin and I gave a talk at HackFwd Build 0.7 event. I met the best entrepreneurs of Europe such as Lars Hinrich (XING creator) and other impressive people such as Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO). Awesome experience.

I gave a talk at the International Youth Meeting of Cabueñes 2011

Asturix was selected between the 15 best projects at Campus Party Milenio and I gave another talk :-P

I was chosen to give a talk about my passion (free software & entrepreneurship) at the first edition of TEDxYouth.

I gave another talk at The 28th Congress of Junior Companies at Bilbao.

Asturix organizated the 1st FCYouth (Free Culture and Youth Congress).

2011 was the year when Dennis Ritchie, one of the most important developers of the computer history and Steve Jobs, best salesman ever, died.

2011 was the year I met Alberto, another 16 years old entrepreneur. We’re going to launch our startup in February 2012!

2011 was a very hard year, but the best year of my life.

2011 was an awesome year but… 2012 will be better!

You need to be a bit crazy for being an entrepreneur

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win

Mahatma Gandhi

I moved my old-fashioned email account to Google Apps and my self-hosted blog to a Tumblr-hosted one.

It is all about productivity.

Steve Jobs died a couple days ago. Everyone said good words about Jobs, his products and his life, and how he made the world a better place.

Jobs was the best salesman of the world, that’s true. He was the most brilliant and the most inspiring.

But the world isn’t a better place thanks to him. As Richard Stallman said:

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Stallman is a very strange person, but he is usually right. And in that post about Jobs, he was right.

Some of the people saying that Stallman is ill and that Jobs made the world better are people that don’t know who’s Stallman.

Stallman is the creator of one of the best creations of humanity, free software.

Don’t forgot that your iPhone is running thanks to Stallman’s work. Yes, and Jobs’ work too. The difference is that Stallman released the source code of his creations and Jobs’ didn’t.

Read it again and think, did Jobs make the world a better place?

Yap, I won HackNow

So I’m the best hacker under 18 in Europe. That’s awesome

The prize was the best smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2), 5000€ and give a talk at HackFwd Build 0.7 event.

The SGS2 is awesome, its display is incredible, and it has even HDMI!

And the 5000€ will help me found my first startup that I’m going to create with my friend Alberto.

But I think the best prize was the opportunity to give a talk at Build 07, place where the best tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and investors of Europe share their thinkings.

The travel from my city (Oviedo, Spain) to Berlin was very long (about 12 hours using bus and plane).

When I arrived Berlin I saw an open city with dynamic and very polite citizens. I saw bikes everywhere and I didn’t hear the amount of noise we have in Spain.

The hotel of the event was good and it had free WiFi!

The place that hosted the event was very cool. Very open and very geek. It had ping-pong table!

All the speakers were amazing in their talks and there was a very good atmosphere of networking, collaboration, innovation and work.

My talk was good and I didn’t make so much english mistakes ;-P

When I finished my talk people made me a couple standing ovations and three or four very interesting questions about On, my environment and my future.

I met incredible people such as Lars Hinrich, Christian Boos, David Bizer, Mikko Järvenpää, Tom Hulme… and a lot of other very big professionals and amazing persons.

The event was an unforgettable experience.
I definitively want to create my own startup ;-)

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