Woohoo, great news from the hackfest and that didn't got announced properly: Andreas will get married in two weeks!
Congrats, my friend! Now the real question: will he create some cool graphics for this event? I'm pretty sure he will!
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Sunday 5 October 2008
Boston, here I come!
In a few hours, I'll leave my nice sweet home for the big Boston. First for the User Experience Hackfest and then for the Boston Summit.
I'm quite excited about the hackfest and I hope it will turn out to be as good as I hope (or, who knows, even better). While I was supposed to help with the organization, Federico and Owen did most of the job -- Owen actually was awesome. The hackfest will occur at the Cambridge Novell offices, so it will also be a good opportunity for me to visit some other offices of my company ;-) There'll be lots of great people attending, so it will certainly be good times. We'll try to make sure that people blog about what's going on since there will certainly be a few outsiders curious of what will be going on. I know I would be curious!
As for the Boston Summit, well, it'll be my first one. I have no idea what to expect, which means it can only be positive, I guess. I do expect some quite productive output out of this week in Boston. I really think that this hackfest and this summit can be of tremendous help to define where we'll want to go in the next few years. Okay, I might have no idea what to expect but I do have high expectations ;-)
Thursday 2 October 2008
Paris Capitale du Libre & Lutèce d'Or award for GOPA
So last week, after some hard work, I went to an event in Paris: Paris Capitale du Libre. It's mainly a corporate event, but there were still the french usual suspects from the community -- you know, people you can see at most events in France :-) I had some good discussions there, and also animated a panel about the common points and the differences among free OS. We talked about OS because it was not just about distributions based on the Linux kernel. It went quite well and Frédéric appeared out of nowhere to talk about Debian, which turned out to be a nice surprise.
As part of this event, some awards named the Lutèce d'Or are given away. The goal here is to reward some people, projects or companies who have been pushing some initiatives in the free software world, and to inspire new projects in the free software world, and more generally stimulate innovation.
I guess that, by now, everybody knows what the GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility is. Or, as lazy people like me call it, GOPA. Do you see where I'm heading? Yep, we won the prize for the best community-driven effort for GOPA! The reason I'm really happy about this is not that GNOME won, but that it will hopefully help make more people aware of accessibility. This is a field that we know is too often ignored, and that needs a lot of love from everybody.
Christophe went to the ceremony to receive the prize. I think he was really happy since he was the first to stand up to receive a prize (it was the first prize delivered) and he was very visible thanks to the way he was dressed ;-) I didn't see our prize myself, but I saw the prize of some other winners and, wow, this thing is quite heavy! And nice, of course.
Also, openSUSE was in the final set of candidates for the worldwide-developed free software project for the Build Service, but lost to OpenOffice.org. Ah, well, we'll try again next year ;-)
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Wednesday 24 September 2008
GNOME 2.24.0 is out!
After six months of work from the whole community, we can finally introduce GNOME 2.24.0 to the world! It's a good release, with cool new stuff and big improvements (as usual ;-)). Among other things, I'm happy that empathy got in, and also glad for the ekiga team to see that they managed to get ekiga 3.0 out in time! It's actually a bit unfair to just mention those two events, since many more people rocked; go check the release notes to learn about more changes.
The release itself was quite some work -- more than expected, actually. Quite a few people were pinged, and I rolled something like 20 tarballs to make sure that we ship the latest translations (and sometimes, the latest fixes) for nearly all of our modules. Smoketesting has somehow improved: since distributions actually ship the 2.24.0 tarballs before we do the official GNOME release, quite some users are testing the latest code. And it helped identify a few issues, which is cool :-)
Oh, and the 1000th commit to the releng modules was the one finalizing this release. Magic number! Okay, I'm lying here: because of two last-minutes tarballs, the real official 2.24.0 commit was the 1001st. It still looks good, doesn't it?
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Tuesday 12 August 2008
Newsflash: one hundred KDE developers start using GNOME!
Nice headline, isn't it? I should considering moving to a press job :-)
Today at Akademy is an embedded and mobile day, and Nokia gave away one hundred N810. Since then, wherever I go, I see people playing with their new device. And since it's GNOME-based, it means those KDE developers are using GNOME! More seriously, Nokia's strategy of giving devices away for free (or at a reduced price, like they also did previously) really seems to help attract people.
Also, it looks like some KDE people have planned a trap to imprison me here. Hopefully, I'll still be able to escape today. Not that I dislike the discussions I have here (quite the contrary, actually), but I'm supposed to travel to Romania very early tomorrow morning. This also means I'll be offline for a few days and it will be my first complete offline experience since quite some time... I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy this!
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