Christian Reis lives here

I know you know. But well, just in case you forgot..

I currently work at Async Open Source, a company that provides development and consulting services focused on on Free Software. I helped found Async in early 1999.

Since 2004, I've been actively involved in Launchpad development, and in 2005 I became application manager for the project, together with Steve Alexander. These days I lead a team of over 30 people working on building a platform for the future of open source development and collaboration.

In 2003, I somehow managed an MSc degree from USP São Carlos, where I wrangled out my dissertation on defining a Process Model for Free Software Projects. My MSc project is described in two long documents (in portuguese). I graduated in Computer Engineering from UFSCar in 1997, though most of that time evaporated into swimming pools and bike trails.

A couple of years ago (just as I had decided I wanted nothing to do with computers) I discovered Free Software and Unix, and I've been working on both ever since then. I've contributed to dozens of free software projects, and I am currently an active developer for Bugzilla, PyGTK, ZODB, Kiwi and IndexedCatalog. I've worked with Web development (who hasn't?) and Usability, additionally, in the past years.

When I'm not pretending to be a software engineering manager I engage in outdoor sports, travelling, language and vain philosophy. I've raced mountain bikes for a couple of years now, and from 1999 to 2003 I raced a number of national-level adventure races, including the multi-day EMA 2000 and 2001.

Getting in touch with me

Online:	Homepage (~kiko) <kiko at async.com.br>
Phones:	+55 16 3376 0125 work +55 16 9112 6430 mobile
Home: (map)	Rua Rui Barbosa 1977 Sao Carlos, SP Brazil 13560-330

What he's been up to

04.05.2009	The only thing I can do is read
MySQL pissed me off today. It started out with it going OOM and then corrupting Bugzilla's logincookies file. So I turned it off, pulled out myisamchk and it did the right thing. Or half of it, it turns out. Once I had done that, the table was marked read only, and how the hell does one get out of that? Turns out there were THREE things that needed doing. First, I had to chown the actual MYI file to mysql:mysql. Then I had to chmod it to 660, because the perms were broken. After that I got stuck, because mysqlcheck wouldn't update it, still saying "Table 'logincookies' is read only". Well, damn it -- turns out the last bit missing was running a "FLUSH TABLE logincookies;". So how was I supposed to guess that?
28.04.2009	You can't make this stuff up
João Vitor e a Arara: [g1.globo.com]
13.04.2009	Eastern Easters
Possibly one of the all-time best Roubaix climaxes ran yesterday as an Easter present for everybody. Or well, I guess everybody but Flecha, Hoste and Hushovd: [www.youtube.com]
26.03.2009	How can one not love Launchpad?
<danilo> kiko: got any cheap offers for marriage in EU? and can I continue to live here? (fwiw, I am busting my ass with documentation this time around since I want to ask for longer visas, and I'll have Canonical lie a bit in the invitation letter how I am going to go to Spain 745 times in the next year :) <intellectronica> danilo: as soon as i get my EU pass i'll be happy to marry you <danilo> intellectronica: sounds good :) <intellectronica> (even though you're a bit too tall to my taste) <danilo> intellectronica: well, you'd not be my first choice either, but I'll love you as if you were :)
14.03.2009	Things I miss about Brasilia
I left Brasília many years ago, and I only lived here for 4 years before starting university down south. But there are some things that I really miss about it. One is the rain. It is spectacular in the summer months how beautiful and shocking the thunderstorms are; my parents have a house which is glass everything and the sound is deafening. When I come here I love staying at home and just listening to the roar of the storm hitting the house and the lake. And the thunder, when it strikes, makes your heart race, eyes widened at how loud that could really be. Home is another. It is very neat to be surrounded with all these weird mementos of your former lives; trophies from races you did who knows when, comic book collections that you bought in forgotten newsstands and in ancient trips to places you never visited again, bits of arcane computer hardware that might just work if you can piece it all together. And the sounds of that old life around you. My parents. I have had a lot of luck in my life, but wow, it seems almost unfair that I had a pair of parents as fantastic as mine. They are two ever-surprisingly versatile individuals if I ever saw a pair, and every year they seem to decide how they want to reinvent themselves. And whatever it is you want to do, they are interested in doing it with you. Run 15k? Sure! Waterfalling? Always! Out to buy random stuff I need? Now! Never boring. What an amazing couple.
10.03.2009	The purposes of war
Really interesting interview with Zeev Maoz about Israel's political strategy at [www.revistapesquisa.fapesp.br] -- but only if you can read portuguese.

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