Random bits from the course of the day:
Lessig explaining CC, giving some history, and asking for donations- they don’t appear to be running out of money, per se, but if some percentage of their money doesn’t come from a distributed base of donors, the IRS gets unhappy.
Just as Linus explained his abhorrence of specs the [...]
Put up some more schedule bits in the wiki. General philosophy for the weekend (as I propose it) is (to quote the wiki):
The emphasis this year will be even more focused on BOFs and hacking. Day 1 will be dedicated to speed talks and BOFs that might yield hacking on Day 2 and Day 3. [...]
Nobody wins any challenge until code is checked in. :)
Another big gnome deployment: Sun Wah Linux is deploying their GNOME-based Rays LX to 140+ thousand machines in China. We continue to win big, substantial deployments across the world, and that is really, really exciting.
Unfortunately, Sun Wah are shipping 2.6 with substantial i18n input fixes (as [...]
Brilliant idea for next year’s GUADEC, from a planning meeting for wikimania boston I’m sitting in- it would be really cool to have slightly-laggy-but-almost-live translations either streamed or in IRC, done by pre-volunteered translators who were watching/listening to the streams. They don’t have to be in the room- can be anywhere they can get to [...]
Deskbar applet rocks. I’m an obsessive run dialog reader, or was until today. No more. I’ve actually removed my foot menu for the time being, since it was in an upper-left corner and I can jam my mouse there easily (which will have to do until bug 317941 is resolved.) And that is even without [...]
If you are in Finland, you are needed in the capital tomorrow to protest against a new copyright law.
I’d kill for a breezy package of the new deskbar applet. Hint. Hint. ;) Am glad to see that it can launch arbitrary apps and autocomplete on .desktop files- conceptually, at least, this would make a very [...]
