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Monthly Archives: July 2006
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31-Jul-06from trac to tracks for GTD
27-Jul-06I have been trying to Get Things Done for a while, and using Trac to do it. It has been a pretty nice experience, and has changed some of my thinking about how bug tracking software. But trac clearly wasn’t written for GTD, and it shows from time to time. Today the insufficiency came up [...]
GPL v3 new draft released
27-Jul-06The FSF has released a new discussion draft of the GPL, with a whole lot of materials around it. I’m flipping through it now, while listening to Eben describe the changes (ogg).
For those who weren’t there, by the way, Ciaran O’Riordan had an excellent introduction to the GPL v3 process at GUADEC. His slides are [...]
little bits of awesomeness
26-Jul-06Some little bits of awesomeness today:
I visited the old office on Tuesday (Harvard, not Ximian) and that rocked- smart people.
There is now a rockingly awesome cc plugin for epiphany. This helps raise awareness of CC licensing, and that is a great thing.
LDTP and jhbuild are happily singing together, it appears. This is great- a huge [...]
headshots! (from me, and a few of me)
26-Jul-06I put together the gnome is people headshots, finally. I had a lot of fun doing them, though admittedly they are a touch inconsistent. Cut me some slack- I’ve never really tried to take good portraits before, so you can see the progression over time as I get better with encouraging people to laugh, and [...]
Berkman Center seeks another Sr. Hacker
25-Jul-06The Berkman Center is a fun place to work, with smart people and great stuff going on. As a bonus, if you have any interest in thinking big thoughts, the hallway conversations are the best you’ll ever have in any tech job, most likely. And they are hiring: they need a Sr. Engineer for a [...]
Are there any examples where someone created a broadly deployed standard and did not in time become either MS (high, expensive barriers to entry to use/support the standard, hence hated but wealthy) or Netscape (low barriers to entry, hence loved but dead?) I really can’t think of any, but I’d love to know of any [...]
followups on my guadec posts
24-Jul-06I got a ton of feedback on my guadec posts. Some thoughts, and related news bits:
Scoble posted yesterday on the coming platform wars between Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and eBay. What is free software’s answer to that? Obviously the ’spend billions on centralized servers’ approach won’t work for us; we likely need something P2P and/or semantic-web [...]
So Metavid looks like a totally rocking project which converts feeds from the House and Senate into Theora, and makes their close-captioning searchable. It appears to have at least some relationship with the cool kids from annodex. It unfortunately is getting legal flak from C-SPAN, and perhaps more unfortunately, uses phrases like “The metavid project [...]
house-cooling
22-Jul-06We have finished constructing a table out of a dozen full boxes of books, where one of our futons used to be. I am about to make crepes and then run out to get more cups, plates, and even a little beer. Throwing a party is fun, it turns out; I should have done it [...]