Random Stuff by Jose E. Marchesi

I am a software engineer with strong beliefs in Free Software. I maintain and develop some free programs such as GNU PDF and GNU Ferret and perform other "random works" in the context of the GNU Project. I also write software for money in order to make a life. I develop my professional work in the Space Sector writing software for the European Space Agency.

See my Curriculum Vitae for more information.

This page has links to some of the stuff I do such as articles, recordings of speeches, programs, little hacks, and the like.

I wrote some short articles (in Spanish) for the Diagonal newspaper:

• Bicicletas y Software Libre.
• Software Libre y Open Source.
• El Concepto, Pazos!.

Addressbook is a simple addressbook for Emacs. It uses the v-card format to store the contacts data.

JemPkg is an "amateur packaging system" for Emacs… or maybe it is a "home manager" to maintain and load system-dependent configurations. Well, something like that. I use it all the time, but, as its name implies, it is a quite personal hack and it may not fit your needs.

des-mode is an Emacs major mode for the edition of nethack description files (both dungeons and levels).

diagram.tcl is a pure Tcl package implementing editable diagrams in the Tk canvas. It was written to implement the graphical editor in GNU Ferret.

Here I collect the recordings of some of my speeches.

• *"Software Libre y el Proyecto GNU"* (Audio, Spanish) Unique Part. First Part. Second Part.
• *"Software Libre y el Proyecto GNU"* (Video, Spanish) First Part. Second Part.
• *"Editor Wars"* (Video, Spanish) First Part. Second Part.
• *"Taller de Lisp"* (Video, Spanish) Unique Part.

• Patent Absurdity. Learn why software patents are nonsense and a quite real danger for technological innovation.