Jul 26
2010
Learning to Fly
When in our vacation to Mexico, me and my friend Gelu used to have long chats about our life and freedom – you know, those vacations chats; what if we wouldn’t be obliged to pay our mortgages, our cars lease and do day by day the same things: wakeup in the morning, bring kids to school, go to work and dig-dig-dig, turn back, eat, do stuff, go to bed and again.. and again..
We concluded that you still have to be in all of this – unless you won the lottery.
But.. you still have some freedom to change things.
Each of us are dreaming to change our lives, to have more freedom, to travel, to learn new ways, meet new people, do the work that we enjoy most, do something that adds value to our passing lives on this earth. Kids are probably the most important thing each of us achieve. Still, you wish more. Would be this the mid-life crisis..?
The fact is that when I was back, I decided is time to do a change and try something that would be more diverse, and ad more flexibility in my life.
This change would be first of all related to the job – the place where you spend at least 9 hours per day, not to count extra work and commuting (actually you spend at work more time than you spend with your family day by day).
And I decided is time to take my chance and try consultancy. Pick the projects I like and where I feel I can make a stand. Eventually work from distance and all those things you dream (pick a place where the water is warm and you don’t count the sunny days – and work from there for a few weeks/months ?).
To make the story short – here I am, since May, doing consultancy work for different organizations. Is different, I don’t know if is better or worse yet (there are pluses and minuses), but at least I’m trying.
Because I think each of us is having the duty to try and fulfill own dreams. Even if you passed 30s or 40s or 50s..
More learnings and findings about it will come in a longer article I hope.
Till then, I’ll post daily on twitter as usual (@LucianSavluc), put pictures on Flickr and keep my new presentation website – Centri.ca – updated.
I hope soon I’ll announce some good news about eLiberatica 2010 too.
Wish you a great summer!
PS – Some of you would still enjoy “Learning to Fly” …is never late.
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“some good news about eLiberatica”
What good news?
Almost by definition, a Microsoft-sponsored Linux/FLOSS conference is bad news and poisonous for the free software community.
Have you had a change of heart and suddenly decided to drop MS from the sponsor list?
The Romanian Linux/FLOSS community would be really, really glad if you did.
Otherwise, “news about eLiberatica” … Yawn.
Dear Dan, I already responded to your concerns months ago in this article "Some clarity about eLiberatica and Microsoft (again)". This is in connections with similar comments you made at the begging of this year….
I listened and I can respect your personal opinion related to this subject, but please don’t speak in the name of an entire community.
Year by year eLiberatica favoured Romanian FLOSS community, because belongs to it. Just in 2009, we offered for free exposition space for any FLOSS community in the country who wished to participate. This was possible because we could use finances thru sponsorship.
Think deeply about these facts and see clearly who the enemies are and who are the friends.
Sorry to say, but your attitude is not helping the cause at all.
Both you and I can spend the time for helping FLOSS better than arguing here. (Worthless to say, the blog post above is almost unrelated to eLiberatica…).
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lucian Savluc, eLiberatica. eLiberatica said: RT @LucianSavluc: If you want attention, there are other ways.. http://is.gd/dP5SR [...]
NOTE:
Dan continued to add comments using the same tone. I wrote to him directly asking from where so much hate for an event he never attended, or against me, a person that he never met.
He responded with the same tone, so I took the liberty to not approve his replay, even if he threatened me that will open this kind of comments on Linux mailing lists.
I refuse to discuss with somebody that is driven by hate and miss common sense and lack any of politeness in a dialog.
Jason Melton writes a blog post on:
- open source vs. free software
- eLiberatica+Microsoft vs. the community
http://www.the-source.com/2010/08/rms-on-microsoft-sponsorship/
This is a well written, decent and polite article and I salute the opinions written there. This should be a lesson of communication.
I’ll try to respond to the article in the next period.