Luis Iván Cuende

I remember when I was one of the 800 european young chosen to assist to Campus Party Europa 2010, and Asturix was chosen one of the 20 best Innovation projects. It was awesome.

This year Asturix was chosen a collaborator community for the Campus Party Valencia 2011, so I went to the event with my father and Ricardo, the delegate of Communication of Asturix.

First day (July 11) was horrible because the travel was long (about 12 hours).

In the inauguration of the event Pau García Milá presented me to Maddog. Thanks Pau, you’re big!

People from Futura Networks gave us cool sites in the first table of the Innovation area. We were in the table of organizers and speakers, with our 12-years old PC, my father’s netbook and the Ricardo 6-years old laptop. Just funny.

Second day was very different. Ricardo and me went to the other extreme of the table, the place in that Jon “Maddog” Hall was, and we talked with him about 1 hour. Time later we take lunch with him. He is a very humble and accessible person. We made him a lot of questions. Maddog is an incredible person that truly understands the free culture. He is a very humble person.

Maddog gave me 10 minutes after his incredible talk about the history and future of Linux. View it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8cnZU6EC4 !!!

The only talk we cannot see live was the Kevin Mitnick show. Yes, it was a show. I thought that Kevin would be a cool hacker, but he is a prepotent person. He started his video with  ”Kevin can penetrate all the computers“. That’s no a humble person IMHO xD. He said very intelligent things as “I changed the sound of a nuclear plant to Impossible Mission hahahaha” or “It makes pi pi pi po po poooo hahaha“. Ricardo and me were making a lot of jokes about Kevin, it was funny.

The other days we have lunch another time and dinner with Maddog and I talked with Pau García Milà (creator of eyeOS), Erik Schultink (CTO at Tuenti) and Sebastián Muriel (VP Corporate Affairs at Tuenti), Pep Gómez (18-years old entrepeneur), Cezar Busatto and Daniel Bittencourt (people from Porto Alegre), Sanjay Fernandes (from Colombia), Gabriel Vano (creator of GiveLife Color System) and Daniel Burón (from Gizmodo).

I’m forgetting a lot of people, sorry but I have very little memory :-P

Unforgettable experience.

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