Luis VillaRamblings on software, law, and the spaces in between.

• Watched all of season three of Coupling last night. Just incredibly hilarious stuff.
• Glynn: So, will Sun make that HEAD VNC server public? :) pretty please? :) (We really do need to do it, but if someone else is already doing it…) Otherwise, sounds like a very reasonable plan, particularly the part about just nuking all the low priority bugs after making sure they go upstream. I may consider proposing something similar within Novell.
• Cool to see Matt arguing for some more sanity in Debian. I personally think that a succesful community-based distro is an important indicator of the health of the larger Linux/Free Software community, so I hope it succeeds.
• Bryan, when are we getting to see your evo-in-gnome-blog sexiness? [Two minutes with google later] OK, let me rephrase. When are you going to nag jeff to put your blog on p.g.o?

Reading Glynn’s comments on energy level at GUADEC, and had to comment. A few things:

• The architecture of the site was different. For the first time, instead of forcing everyone into one room to get network, we had brilliant wireless access. Good for sunlight and fresh air, bad for the energy that only locking 100 hackers in a room for hours on end can bring.
• There was definitely the java/mono issue outstanding, especially for those of us on the board trying to move this issue along. We did have some good talks at the advisory board level, though with nothing really concrete as of yet. I don’t think that generally impacted the energy level, but it certainly impacted how the board felt.
• Multiple 8 hour meetings to bookend GUADEC with are brutal, no matter what the content. Hopefully the board will learn from this year and have both the meetings before the conference next year. Again, mostly an impact on board members.

Overall, I thought energy level was pretty good. We’re not in a really energetic, driving time right now, like we were for and immediately after 2.0. Part of this goes to some of the issues Nat raised, which I think are concerning, but we’re not avoiding them for lack of energy.

Wow! Advo is back. Perfect timing; I was thinking of finally getting my life in order and putting up my own blog. Now I can let my natural laziness take over. Thanks to everyone who helped get it back up (and up in the first place, of course).

GUADEC was really awesome. Really great to meet roozbeh, dave coombs (with whom I had great soup, and who did the yeomans work of documenting the benches), other NITI folk, ynakai, dick, hpj, dodji, and of course the inimitable andrew sobala, to whom I gave the pants/trousers/whatever. All told, we had a ton of countries represented, which was cool. And of course lots of faces I hadn’t seen since last GUADEC that I got to see again. That’s probably always the best part of guadec. The incredible facilities, cool talks, long board meetings (groan), midnight soccer, drinking expensive beer, wiki, and generally great organization were just icing- really awesome icing this year, but still icing.