Work
Off to Orlando for educause, to talk about playlists. Have started using playlist as a research scratchpad, creating a ‘hacking philosophy’ playlist that I hope might be useful as the outline for an essay at some point.
Lots of folks at the office are going to WSIS, despite it being in Tunisia, a known internet censorer. [...]
Personal
Long weekend. My grandfather is healthier and in a much, much better facility. But it isn’t clear he’ll ever really be 100% healthy again; he’s just too old and too frail for his body to recover fully from this type of thing. Avoid Shady Grove Adventist if you’re ever in the Rockville Maryland area and [...]
A charming day today; was misrepresented (along with all of the rest of GNOME) by someone welcomed to our summit in good faith; was only mixedly productive at work (though I did find out at least about two possible hosts for our project CVS and start the ball rolling on a better harvard-local fedora mirror); [...]
Glynn: sure there is something stopping me from installing OpenSolaris- point me to the iso. And Schillix doesn’t count. (And it doesn’t really matter what the motivations for CDDL are- the impact is to be GPL-incompatible, and that cannot have been a surprise that Sun only noticed later.) Look, I’m happy for Sun that there [...]
I forgot to mention yesterday morning that gobby rocks. I expect to use it (or something like it) for more collaborative meetings in the future. We used it at the summit to take notes for a couple of sessions, and it was quite nice, though it did crash once on me without bringing up bug-buddy.
Software [...]
lunchblogging! This is sort of like pie blogging except from the berkman’s lunch series.
Today’s speaker (sort of, he describes it as more of a panel) is Daniell Krawczyk of DigitalBicycle. Deeply ironically, our streaming hardware died right before lunch, so there is no stream. :/
Daniell says that in the past there have been collaborations to [...]
Some people asked at the summit about how to get more involved (including in the context of me getting less involved); if you’ve got some reasonable GNOME experience in any of a number of fields (including QA, building GNOME, release note writing, wiki cleanup, etc.), Uncle Elijah Wants You on the release team.
Summit was a lot of fun. Good to see people, of course, and good to see lots of hacking going on. We saw in the closing demos of lots of stuff that I have now forgotten due to lack of sleep but which I’m sure Jorge will blog faithfully about. The perf guys seem to [...]
Why I wanted to meet Nathan:
from his blog, seems like an interesting person. As Dave has pointed out, I like to collect interesting people. ;)
There are at least some creative commons people who believe that the Free Software community should be kept at arm’s length, as the Free Software community has a raging lunatic fringe, [...]
I ended up not going to State of Play, which is sort of unfortunate, but the tradeoff was that I got to spend about 10 hours with Jeff today, and he ended up falling asleep on my couch. Always good to spend time with him.
One thing we discussed quite a bit was the board and [...]
