Ludo has created a new blog in this domain: Google at Barcelona?. He wants to initiate a discussion about why Barcelona must be chosen by Google to open a new office.
I’m going to add my opinion to this initiative, but first of all I would like to introduce I little bit my situation and the computer science labour market at Spain.
Few years ago I got my Diploma in Computer Software at FIB - UPC and now I about to get a Degree in Informatics Engineering. Last two years I’ve been working at university on the command of Ludo as a developer and researcher. I like to research, investigate and innovate with our software. I love to participate in this kind of projects, as a developer, as an analyst or as a designer.
At this moment, at Spain, the major part of the software companies are IT consultants. I don’t want to work in this kind of companies, don’t want to jump from project to project. When I start a new line of development I’m always very involved in it, I like to watch my applications grow and improve.
For all this reasons, several people that studied with me is staying at our Faculty, working at research groups and developing open source software. For instance, Juli is working at Computer Architecture Department and contributing to NetBSD project. Joan, with some friends, won a Business Ideas Contest and created his own company, Dexma Sensors. Jordi is the second classic adventure games fan in the world (I’m the first 
) and he is contributing to ScummVM project to add compatibility with mythical Sierra games (King’s Quests, Larrys, etc).
These are only three examples of people here in Barcelona that are doing great things. There are much more!!!
Marc said in his first post the following sentence:
Thinking about it, Barcelona is the favorite destiny of European Students in the Erasmus and Galileo programs (I don’t have the data, but I’m pretty sure ), the IT companies here are full of consultants from the north of Europe who choose to live here…
I’m able to add more people to the group that has chosen Barcelona. Few day ago I was listening the radio and I heard the news that Barcelona is the city of Spain with more congresses every year, more than Madrid or Valencia. Since the CCIB (Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona) opened the number of conventions has risen very fast. You have to wait more than a year to reserve a conference room.
This is another fact to take into account. Barcelona is becoming a center of research and knowledge and Google must be here!
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