We celebrate our 1st anniversary!

And well, we didn't think we'd get that far. You know, we are not your typical Linux blog and we do not leave easily.

Do you remember the "Ladies and Gentlemen"? It was our welcome article and we wrote it on August 9, 2008. We celebrate it on August 10 for everyone to celebrate with us.

With a formula of only original articles and medium, even long charged to the conversation, ideas are slow to come out, along with a policy of posting every week religiously in order.

But we have arrived here and things have worked:

• We write 260 items counting this one.
• We have received almost 5.000 comments and we are about to arrive.
• We are read by 400 or so subscribers according to the fickle FeedBurner.
• Several of our articles have been Menéame cover
• And on our birthday, Wikio surprises us by naming us on its list of the top 10 blogs about Linux in the last month, next to blogs of great depth and many more years like Free Life, Caesarius o Very Linux.

But behind the blog there are always people, but in the case of LXA! is even more important because we are 4 people those of us who have taken it all this time, let's see what each one thinks of their experience this year:

N @ ty:

From my experience as a writer at LXA! I can only say two things: growth and friendship.

The growth I had as a writer, as a transmitter of an idea, a conviction or a thought was deeply enriching. The good thing about writing in LXA! is that there are no filters, you have the freedom to express your opinion and express your beliefs knowing that on the other side you will find incredibly respectful commentators (who are already like friends). That's invaluable, and one of the things I miss most about my days as a copywriter.

A great joy and pride to have been an active part of this blog, and now as a member of the great community that is the LXA blog! I wish you our readers, esty, ffuentes, Laura and Tux a very happy birthday! Kisses for everyone, and now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to celebrate ...

Laura:

I came to this blog, I confess, searching on Google, among so many detractors, for some "defender" (to call it that) of Ubuntu. So I fell into one of the articles: Little girl distros and sources man distros.

After reading the «About Us»And some articles I started to read more often and to comment. I liked how they treated the issues and, above all, the debate. Some time later, although I already had a Linux blog, I agreed to write when they suggested it to me.

My experience here. This is a bit of a "self-improvement exercise" since sometimes it takes a bit of thinking about what to talk about. But I have always liked how the conversation is generated with the readers afterwards. And deal with the topics that I like. Glad to have you as readers and also to write for LXA! (and why not, also having met sources: D)

Esty

Finding out about this Wikio ranking, Ffuentes explains to me that they are not based on user votes or anything like that, but rather on the authority of the blog, that is, on the incoming links that each blog receives, the VIA. That is perhaps why it makes me feel so proud to find LXA there among the top 10, as it shows me that we have been able to generate opinions for a year, we have been able to make them think, make them read, make them think, and spread the word.

I cannot give myself a single credit in this achievement, since I doubt I have created something serious and interesting for LXA in all this time, I can only speak about what I know, and what I know is little. The ones who get the credit are the bloggers who generated so much interesting content all this time, and the credit goes to all of you my readers, who see LXA, a good Linux blog.

Over time I have become quite materialistic on the subject of blogging, however LXA is here as always, without generating absolutely a single dollar, but creating an increasingly larger community than like us, it is convinced that there is peace between Linux and Windows, there are grays, and not white or black.
Finally, thank you all for staying there.

f sources

The idea of ​​LXA! From the beginning, although afraid of failing, it was doing something well done, to the extent that our knowledge allowed us. But beyond a well done project I got a lot more things.

I discovered teamwork, I learned to dedicate time to a job, to be constant, I met remarkable people on the staff and also among the commentators. Well, and I also fell in love without looking for it with a beautiful girl and very geek, I mean ... linuxera with whom I hope to be very happy.

So you can see that for my LXA! it means too many things that cannot even be expressed.

To finish

We are celebrating one year thanks to you. Will we be celebrating more? XD