Tiago Matos’ Nest

After my previous, very controversial post, lets get back in track ( life, web and thoughts… and the average 3 visits per day)

This is a pearl but wait till the middle and end of it… when the debate scales up…

Yesterday evening I went to check out a random ESN Party ( http://esnporto.org/ ) in which ESN, surprisingly demanded 5 Eur. entrance fee to Portuguese people (including Porto University Students) and after a certain hour, completely blocked entrance to Portuguese students claiming it was a “exchange students only” event.

As an alumni member of this organization I believe this is an unnaceptable behaviour. Let me quote for you the vision and mission of ESN International, to which all ESN Sections (incluinding ESN Porto section) should agree on:

Vision: “ESN is the key volunteer student organisation in international higher education in Europe. We provide opportunities for cultural understanding and self-development under the principle of SHS - Students Helping Students.”

Mission point 2: “We passionately commit ourselves to volunteering for the benefits of others.”

Having been an ERASMUS myself in Germany, I trulieve an Exchange Student seeks for greater interaction and integration with the his foster country and its people. Don’t understand why block access to Portuguese people and Univerisity of Porto students to ESN Parties? Would exchange students be upset with 50 Portuguese more people in the same space? Wouldn’t they like to know more about Porto’s culture? Porto’s student life?

Not to mention ESN is a volunteer, non-for-profit association, and cannot seek profit on their actions. Every small party raises around 200-400 Eur to ESN Porto and bigger ones, like this one, after a special even like Pub Crawl, Xmas Dinners, Welcome Days, can easily translate over 1.000 Eur.

The question is: who is serving who? Shouldn’t ESN Porto serve the best interest of University Porto’s students and exchange students instead of incresing its friction?

Update1: There is a interesting argument going on about this post in the comment area. Add your point of view also.
Update2: It seems ESN Porto has change the rules, now ERASMUS can invite a friend of their to come along, nicely done ESN!

I love game shifts. Technological simple ideias upon which people build better ideias. Like twitter and its applications. Like Facebook and its Farmvilles. Now I am waiting of what people build upon the simple Chatrullete.

#reminder with Ecplise and multiple projects

If you are one of those who daily uses Ecplise as IDE and gets raged on how a “simple” application eats all your CPU processing power and fills up half your memmory….

…maybe it’s because you are alowwing Ecplise build unnecessary projects. You know, Ecplise is always trying to help you with nice tooltips and autocomplete, so he needs to keep track of every new function you add to your project and so on.

On a Mac go to Eclipse Preferences > General > Workspace > Build Order and after ticking out “use default build order” remove unnecessary projects from the list and you’re done!