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James Willcox: photos and cover art in ipod-sharp

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:17:17 +0000

I’ve been working on ipod-sharp recently to add cover art and photo support. It’s nearly complete now, and I can add and remove art and photos on my video iPod. Another person has tried it successfully on his Nano, so all that’s left to test is a regular iPod Photo. There might be some issues to work out yet with the camera adaptor too. A big thanks to Larry who did the initial work and provided the scary image conversion code

I’ve added cover art support to Dopi in svn. It uses Cover.jpg (or cover.jpg or folder.png, etc) if one is present next to the files when you add them. I suppose one of these days I should add a crappy “track properties” window so you can view/change the cover art there.

I’ve also created a patch for Banshee to make it use the new ipod-sharp and sync cover art. To try it you’ll need ipod-sharp and libipoddevice from svn/cvs.

Oh I also converted ipod-sharp to use gmcs. Hooray for generics.

Robert McQueen: Telepathy

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:01:56 +0000

Just a quick one, people want food: my Telepathy talk at GUADEC earlier this week was a success by most accounts, and followed up by after-hours talks today with Kai Vehmanen’s on Telepathy SIP, and Yannick Pellet on the IM/VOIP project on the 770. My slides are available for people who missed my talk, and hopefully soon Fluendo will grace us with videos feeds too.

For people still around at the conference tomorrow, I’ve arranged a BOF with Martyn Russell for discussing/hacking Telepathy and Gossip stuff. It’s in the museum library room at 11am tomorrow (Friday). Hope to see you there!

John Palmieri: Smile, The World is Watching

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:04:36 +0000

It looks like the Jokosher guys, those hard working multitrac editor programmers, have decided to immortalize my likeness in their first release which should happen in a couple of weeks. I’ve been playing with this app and can’t wait until it is unleashed to the world. With a mug like that on it, it is sure to succeed. Keep your eyes on j5live.cc where I will be posting some of my music to in the future. If anyone has some sound clips from the concert on Wednesday night please contact me.

John Palmieri: Mono D-Bus Bindings

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:49:53 +0000

We’ve placed the mono bindings in git if anyone wants to fix them up. I talked to Joe Shaw about them and he felt they should be rewritten. The D-Bus team has decided that failing to find a maintainer for the bindings we are not going to release them along with the other bindings when we do the 0.90 dbus core release. Joe felt this was for the best as perhaps it will motivate somone to take up the reigns and become a maintainer.

John Palmieri: Slight git reorg and dbus-glib now builds out of tree

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:42:23 +0000

The dbus binding repositories have been moved under the /git/dbus directory to keep the /git namespace clean. Anongit issues have also been fixed. Get the bindings at:

git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-glib
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-mono
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-python
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-qt
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus/dbus-qt3

I also checked in my changes to the dbus-glib bindings which allow them to build along with the examples. Tests and docs need to be readded and the build scripts cleaned up. It turns out the bindings do not use any internal API as previously thought.

Ben Maurer: notification-daemon

noemail@noemail.org (Ben Maurer) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:20:00 +0000

notification-daemon displays those "you've got 10 minutes of battery left" dialogs. To launch it, you send a dbus signal. A file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services launches the servicce when the dbus interface is called.

An interesting thing I noticed today: if I kill the notification-daemon process, I can still get messages. The process just gets relaunched by dbus. Why the hell doesn't the process quit when no notifications are active? This would save 3.1 MB of memory on my system.

Filed here.

Sriram Ramkrishna: Guadec es muy bein!

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:18:29 +0000

That's as good as my spanish gets. It's my first (and of course best) GUADEC for me. I've been having a great time finally meeting the people I've been talking and emailing since the early days of GNOME. So it's been a great treat for me to be able to come and meet everyone.

Special shout out to the Imendio guys for the many nights of awesome fun!

I'll probably be coming back with some stuff to do it seems. But that's alright.

Benjamin,

I'm not ignoring you, you bastard! Martyn.. you must admit I make a great model. I'm happy to model other bling. :-)

Davyd Madeley: conqueso

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:14:53 +0000

Finally found a photo of the band at the GUADEC party (sourced from Flickr)...

Also, Tim Janik, I am stalking you. You have something I want.

If anyone is taking the 9am British Airways/Iberia flight to back Heathrow on Saturday morning, get in touch.

Robert Love: Sailor-like

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:11:00 +0000

In the all-day GNOME Advisory Board meeting, although I stole away for Pat's power management BOF.

Alex's talk: Look at this room!

Yesterday, Joey and I waxed with the LugRadio folks. I have not listened to the interview, but I smell Spoken Grammy.

The Fredrik

I put up the slides from my NetworkManager and my FUSE talk.

Rich Burridge: Doggie Update - Almost Two Years On

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:30:43 +0000

The other day, Dan had a video of his dog having an action packed dream, complete with muted barking.

Can't top that, but we often see the small dog equivalent with Dusti. Instead of woof woof sounds though, she just emits a few almost inaudible ruff ruff's. Probably fighting off a band of marauding squirrels. The image above was taken last night, after Duncan had had two playdates that day. We were all a little tired out. She looks like I felt.

Normally during the day, (while I'm now working from home), she'll come hang with me (if Lynea -- her primary care giver -- isn't around), but she's always as restless as a willow in a wind storm and doesn't seem to want to go to sleep until she has all her people home. When Lynea returns, she'll go off and snuggle with her; must...wedge...butt...into...human.

She's still the perfect door bell. Anybody who comes to our front door first gets barked at, then, when the door is opened, they get sniffed and licked. I'm convinced that when new people come to our house and hear her loud barking that they are going to be set on by a dog that's at least the size of an Labrador if not a Great Dane. Then you open the door and this little terrier appears.

Dusti, or to give her full Indian name, Ruts With Pillows, has another rather disgusting habit (besides the pillow rutting) that sometimes grosses me out. She'll use the quilt on our bed as a giant hankie. After she's had a drink of water, she'll typically come into our bedroom, and start to roll around on the bed, wiping her nose and snorting away. It's a full body event. First time I saw it, I thought there was something wrong with her. Then she'll stand up and shake, just like she does when she's had a bath. She'll also do all this when she has a doggie cold and wants to wipe her nose. Eeew!

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Luis Villa: gnome is people

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:27:31 +0000

Been a fun ride- see you all on the other side.

(Slides, more pictures, long drawn out goodbyes soon :)

Tuomas Kuosmanen: Chris: OK.

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:02:49 +0000

“Ask and ye shall receive” usually works..

Ben Maurer: Google Checkout

noemail@noemail.org (Ben Maurer) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:53:00 +0000

Google Checkout was released today. In the great slashdot tradition, the story is sold as "Google is releasing an X killer" where X is a product that does something similar but has a totally different goal. (Google Spreadsheets the "excel" killer, etc).

Two things about Google checkout are very interesting to me. First, the ability for Google to provide the user with some sort of confidence in the checkout process. I never really liked Froogle all that much because it'd point you at some random store that just happened to have a website.

The second thing I like is that Checkout offers an anonymous email service. The ability to shut off email from a seller if they get out of hand is very, very nice. (as I understand it, it also offers the ability to forward email for the inevitable email address change. However, it seems the main functionality is being anonymous).

Of course, there's always a down side to things. I'm quite sure this will cause an increase in phishing emails for Google accounts. With that said, it looks like Google is using smart measures to make sure a stolen password won't be of much use. Also, I'd think that gmail users would be especially safe from phishing (when GMail team gets a phishing report, I'd assume they can retroactively filter it).

The checkout support site also has some (basic) information on what the anti-fraud team does. I can assure you, the process is much more complex than that site makes it sound :-).

بهداد اسفهبد: Tehran in Google Maps

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:25:20 +0000

Reza writes to say he noticed Google has added high-res images of many Iranian cities. Here's a few places he spotted, for the nostalgic among us:

Azadi Square
Mehrabad Airport
Sharif University
Enghelab Square
Sadeghiye
Shahrak Gharb
Namayeshgah
Parkway
Tajrish Square
Vanak Square
Park Laleh
Valiasr and Enghelab
Park Mellat
Valiasr Square
Emam Hossein Square
Azadi Football Stadium

Chris Lord: GUADEC photos

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00:00 +0000

GUADEC is winding down now, will be coming back home this evening. I've uploaded the most interesting of my photos, and added them all to the GUADEC2006 group. Here's a couple of the most interesting ones:

Ross and Daniel

A potential new hackergotchi?

Michael Meeks: 2006-06-29: Thursday

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:00:00 +0000

Breakfast, off to the conference - talked to the Nokia guys a little, hacked with Ricardo a little on yast-gtk, talked to Rob some more. Met with a couple of other Gnome Christians - should have a BOF next year.
Really nice to have the occasional insight that might help someone, but not the pain of actually maintaining anything too important anymore: no compound bug reports to process: a great conference.
Noticed some theaded spam in my inbox - nice, presumably the next hook for people: some bogus, generic mail thread discussing the marvels of whatever product.
Wow! - amazed to see Jakub has hacked up a beautiful re-work of my hashvals & dynsort patches combined - which (since it's to Ulrich's design) has a great chance of getting into binutils / glibc; really nice. Read his patch carefully, looks sexy, but we can prolly squeeze some more time/space out of it.

Davyd Madeley: Hogamoré

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:51:46 +0000

I mentioned the quality tat that has been going around at GUADEC this year, so I thought that I might take a photo of some of it.

it really is a week's worth of clothing
While the village has its problems (our bathroom light died last night), there is a certain something about it. The hacker-romantic in me just had to snap this shot.

impromptu hackfest at the Vilanova Park

David Trowbridge: leaftag hackfest

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:17:50 +0000

Just a reminder — leaftag hackfest today! Meeting at 3pm in the UPC hall.

Tuomas Kuosmanen: Wordpress and Geotagging

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:26:14 +0000

I found a Wordpress plugin that does geotagging of posts. I need to see how well it works and whether it tags the RSS feed with location as well. And whether there is an xmlrpc interface to set the location and whether it is possible to do it via the blog api - then my compute could do it automatically for me when I write a post from gnome blog applet or from the Nokia 770..
Then we can hack planet to support it with interesting ways - including the almost realtime hacker plotter. Am I the only one who thinks this stuff is cool?

Garrett LeSage: Sedona vacation

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:09:36 +0000

120º Fahrenheit. Wildfires all over the place. Everything was closed down due to the huge fires, including all of Sedona and its surroundings and the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

That was my trip to Arizona. I just happened to pick a lucky week to visit.

Helicopter vs Fire

Sedona fire at dusk

Sedona fire, after sunset

More pictures will be coming soon — the Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, and the Petrified Forest were all neat to see. Sure, it was dry (8% relative humidity), but it still was hot.

Michael Zucchi: WPF coding diary

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:07:47 +0000

I've just started a diary for my tortuitous journey into windows presentation foundation coding, since I thought pasting examples here wouldn't make a lot of sense.

I will possibly release snippets of re-usable code in GPL form (just to take a dig at MS if nothing else), although of course WPF is nothing close to a free platform. And coming from a free softare/GNOME/GNU bent, there'll be tons of derision and complaints about the most dominant platform in history - that winbloats shit.

Well, i'll see how long till i get bored of it, but it's up for now.

Thomas Thurman: In which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:44:52 +0000

Today, southeastern Pennsylvania had its worst floods since the terrible night of 20 June 1972, when Hurricane Agnes filled the rivers and the towns. Fin spent most of the day helping zir great-aunt Sis move things out of her basement and ground floor, and providing for her cat and dog (Sis's wife Wendy is away at the other end of the state). Sis said in a satisfied grumpy-old-woman sort of way, "I don't care if the flood comes up above the ceiling, I'm not going anywhere." She's got some food and water upstairs now in case she can't get down to the kitchen. We are checking on her regularly, and have of course offered her a bed here up the hill, but she's staying put.

SEPTA weren't running the R6 today because it was flooded, so SaraMae drove into Philly with me and Sharon (and picked us up in the evening). I spent today (other than meetings and so on) working on bringing up a new copy of Kartouche for the 2006 translations. (Kartouche is lovely, mostly, and more people should use it.) Not much else happened.

Oh, yes, and we're hiring again! If you want to work where I work, and you speak Perl, and working in Philadelphia is a possibility for you, go read the posting. The pay isn't exactly wonderful but the benefits are good, the people are lovely and you're really making a difference in the world.

At St Mark's, where they were celebrating the feast of St Irenaeus in glory gold and red around, I ran into Brian the homeless guy at the back of the nave. I didn't recognise him in such a different context at first. He asked how I was, and said he goes there every day. Afterwards I realised I should have offered to buy him dinner (I don't really have any spare cash for takeaway at the moment even for myself, but he was probably hungry). I think St Mark's gives homeless people dinner quite often. Perhaps they'd be interested in the Benefit Bank.

thomb sent us a present of the most beautiful book I have seen for years. It's a big facsimile of an illuminated and illustrated manuscript copy of the Gospels and Acts. I love illumination, and lettering, and the Gospel story, and having them all together makes me very happy.

I realised at work that we could use the Google Maps geocoding API for something useful, but I'm not sure whether that applies to us.

I wrote a description of the new theme format in the car as SaraMae was driving us home, and then fell asleep.

Pedro Villavicencio Garrido: Afilator

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:43:39 +0000

Hey guys, we are right now in the Bungalow 525, doing a hackfest, if you want to try a new kind of pleasure come here and ask for Palomo, just tell him "I want to afilate you!" and you can join the party :-)

Miguel de Icaza: New Toolkit for Rich Web Applications

miguel@gnome.org (Miguel de Icaza) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:14:00 +0000

The other day I ran into Jitsu, a new toolkit for creating Ajax-y applications.

Jitsu takes an interesting approach in the Ajaxy space.

Julien Moutte: Fluendo’s GUADEC party

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:53:04 +0000

So as some of you probably remember, Fluendo organized a party on the beach monday evening. I m saying “probably remember” because i guess some guys who were there probably hardly remember it

Indeed, i m totaly impressed by all our GUADEC buddies !

We prepared a party for 500 people with 4 hours and a half of open bar. We really prepared for 500 good party guys, that means 500 liters of beer, 11 waiters, 3 bars, 100 bottles of strong alcohol. The bad news is that we were less than expected (around 250) at the party, the surprising news is that we drank almost all of it !

Wow… 400 liters of beer, and more than 60 bottles of strong alcohol were gone at 03h00 AM, You guys rock ! I’ll now completely revise my way of calculating open bars volume when dealing with Gnome community

PS: Don’t worry i had a big headache too ! Thanks for coming and partying with us, i’m back to work and won’t be at GUADEC tomorrow. See you all next year in Birmingham !

Rodney Dawes: Stop-energy Buzzwords

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:55:51 +0000

It appears the use of buzzwords in everyday conversations that are technically oriented, has been on the rise as of late. It's reaching epidemic proportions, and the DEA may have to get involved soon. Buzzwords make T angry, especially when they are used in the pejorative as an excuse to write derogatory mails. Whenever you are writing a message to someone, please do us all a favor, and have someone edit out all the buzzwords. It will make the world a much better place to live, and youth centers around the globe can stay open.

And now, I think it's time for some milk.

Alex Graveley: First Gimmie Release

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:46:04 +0000

The network access is too poor and the distractions too much fun here at GUADEC to write a proper release note just yet, but I wanted to let everyone know that the first Gimmie tarball is up.

Download Gimmie 0.1.1 here.

UPDATE: Released 0.1.1… Realizing that people first running Gimmie are seeing a very empty bar, so I added some default bookmarks for Nautilus, Firefox, the README, and my AIM account. This last one is probably a bad idea. Also, there was a bug when dealing with filenames not encoded in UTF-8, so I worked around this and fixed a few other bugs too.

UPDATE UPDATE: Andrew Karr, author of the Gimmie icon, made this beautiful mockup for a possible future layout. Check it out!

Andrew Cowie: Hackergotchi

andrew@operationaldynamics.com (Andrew Cowie) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:46:00 +0000

I’ve had a hackergotchi for a while now. It’s this:

It’s used by all the other planets that syndicate my blog, but for some bizarre reason, Jeff doesn’t want to use it for planet.gnome.org. Go figure.

So if you think it’s fine, bug jdub about it. And if someone might be willing to do up another one just to Jeff happy, then please give it a go. Could use:

Cheers,

AfC

Nat Friedman: More reviews

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:31:55 +0000

#
OSNews has a review of the SLED 10 preview available:

A huge step forward for desktop Linux... I can confidently say that this release candidate outshines Windows Vista's beta.
— OSNews, July 28th, 2006, First Look: SLED 10

You can download the SLED 10 preview to see for yourself.

Hubert Figuiere: Quote of the day:

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:55:18 +0000

Mark Pilgrim commenting on his own post about his switch to Linux:

Yes, as I noted a few weeks ago, I bought the Canon PowerShot SD450. When I plugged the camera into my shiny new install, Ubuntu immediately recognized it and offered to import the photos, which I did, and it worked. I believe this is the work of libgphoto2, which is one of those amazing little libraries that does one incredibly useful thing incredibly well and just keeps getting better for free. Someone out there *really* cares about interfacing with digital cameras, in much the same way that I *really* care about parsing RSS and Atom feeds.

Thanks Mark, you made my day with this user testimonial. I know switching is not easy, and I'm really happy that the libgphoto developers made your life easy for that part.

Christian Schaller: GStreamer, gst-python hackfest

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:11:33 +0000

Edward Hervey is organizing a gst-python centric hackfest here at GUADEC tomorrow at 12.00 in Carpa. (Originally scheduled for Friday). Projects such as Pitivi the non-linear editor, Jokosher audio mixer/recorder, Elisa media center and the Flumotion streaming server will be there. So if you are interested in getting involved with any of these projects make sure to be there. Also if you have questions about writing GStreamer applications in Python in general experts like Edward, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Phillipe Normand and Loic will on call.

Lennart Poettering: GUADEC Sound BOF, Part 2

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:07:35 +0000

There has been some confusion about the date of the Sound BOF, since the BOF Wiki said a different date than my blog story of yesterday. To make this clear: the BOF will happen on friday, 4 p.m.

Martyn Russell: Looking for GNOME local groups

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:51:27 +0000

Quim Asked me to advertise this ---> Looking for GNOME local groups

Fernando San Martín Woerner: Free Software for Managment

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:39:08 +0000

Yestarday i spent few hours at GUADEC in a meeting with Javi Fernandez from Igalia, we share ideas an experience working on this kind of applications. Their software is a complete solution, well designed and stable, by now they're trying to build a community of people using and building applications based on Fisterra, really awesome software and platform!.
Was really nice to talk about similar experinces, so for the people out there now you know it!, there exists solutions for you company, you can get free and awesome software to run your bussiness. And that's not the only one choice that you have, there is Stoq at Brazil and Tiny ERP at Belgium.
These technologies are based on GNOME, and allow to customize the software to make new developments. For sure we should marketing these tools.

Martyn Russell: Brand is Key!

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:38:57 +0000

Promoting the brand is important and this years model competition was won by Sri ;)

Bastien Nocera: Black eyes, name tags and bum fights

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:37:51 +0000

GUADEC's been pretty good to us so far. Nice weather, nice food, plenty of annoying the local countrymen (even though the local local people were rooting for France as well). I don't think I made it to any morning talks so far which is a good measure of the quality of the night life (thanks Fluendo for providing beach bum fights, Nokia for the Cava used to celebrate France's victory, the sun for giving us a great St. John's beach party).

And thank you Quim for being our saviour a couple of times :)

PS: The black eye was obtaining during our loss against the Marine Blue team at the FreeFA tournament. We ripped apart the White team with a 15 goals margin though. Aussies can't play football I guess.

Calum Benson: GStreamer hackfest Thursday

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:49:19 +0000

<bilboed> GStreamer hackfest tomorrow at 12:00 in Carpa.
<bilboed> Is there somebody who has planet gnome access and who could blog about the GStreamer hackfest ?
<bilboed> calum, could you specify all the main gstreamer hackers will be there... please ? :) Wim Taymans, Edward Hervey, Tim Muller, Thomas Vander Stichele, ...

Consider it done :)

John Palmieri: D-Bus bindings now open in git

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:36:58 +0000

Please descend on

git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus-glib
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus-mono
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus-python
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus-qt
git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/dbus-qt3

and make them build. For anon users who want to help out replace the protocol with git:// and the location to anongit.freedesktop.org.

Feel free to restructure the directories (i.e. dbus-python/python is kind of weird). We may need to expose some d-bus symbols which are currently stripped during build now that the bindings are not being built intree.

Happy hacking.

Rich Burridge: Damn Small Linux

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:34:33 +0000

Got a fairly old laptop or PC that just hasn't got enought oompf (stop me if I'm getting too technical) to cope with one of the modern day operating systems out of the box? Then you need Damn Small Linux.

I've got a Sony Vaio laptop with 128Mb of memory. Until now, I've had to content myself with running Windows 98, but not anymore. I went to the DSL (Damn Small Linux, not the other DSL) download page and downloaded the standard isolinux .iso image and burned a CDROM.

I then put it in the CDROM drive and rebooted and DSL comes up as a live CD. It's initially running 27 processes and taking up 20% of my memory. I say that again. I have a running desktop in 25 Mb's of memory! I fired up Firefox and went to Google. It's now running 35 processes and taking up 33 Mb of memory. Damn Small Linux indeed. And it's fast! Color me impressed.

This O/S can also boot off a 256 Mb USB drive.

I'm now going to go ahead and install it on the hard disk as well, overwriting Windows 98.

My one quibble so far is that it didn't recognize a Linksys 802.11b Wireless-B PCMCIA card that I had. I ended up having to use a "wired" Linksys Notebook Adaptor card instead.

What I want now is Damn Small Solaris! I know that there are some people in the Solaris kernel group here at Sun who are starting to look at something like this.

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Alexander Larsson: Gtk+ printing talk slides

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:20:06 +0000

Kris requested that I put up the presentation from the Gtk+ printing talk, so here it is.

Guadec is great this year, I really like the extended length of it. However, I seem to have gotten some kind of cold. I got a headache and don't feel very well.

Michael Meeks: 2006-06-28: Wednesday

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:00:00 +0000

Up early, breakfsat with Rodrigo & some lads, ran for the bus (missed) and caught Louis' car: nice. No projectors available for test - bother.
Talk, went ok - out for lunch with the Novell lads, and ice-cream with the Intel folk. Didn't realize Keith was writing kick-ass (Free software) drivers for the Intel 3D chip-sets: buy Intel ! Missed Joerg's talk somehow, caught the end of Will Walker's a11y talk: exciting stuff there, finally it seems to be working.
Jim's talk well received, Luis did a really good keynote, lots of clapping. Chewed over the link time performance improvements with Mathias and Soren, had a nice demo of sysprof: must poke at OO.o with it. Out for dinner with Rob, Ben, Nicklas, back to the camp site; met Ricardo, talked over this & that.

Davyd Madeley: flashtastic

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:56:36 +0000

Well, my talk is done. It came off much better than expected. The slides are online (ODP, PDF).

The Nokia party last night was fantastic. The band really rocked. If anyone has any photos, I would really appreciate them. A big shout out to Lucas Rocha and Edward Hervey for getting everything organised and putting it all together. Also thanks to my other musician-comrades Robert McQueen, Thomas Wood, Carlos Garnarcho, J5 and everyone who joined in the jam afterwards. Big shout out to Nokia for covering the instrument hire (even if I ended up with the most ghetto saxophone in the world).

While we're doing shout-outs, I also want to congratulate Quim and his team. They really have pulled out all the stops in putting on an excellent conference (so far, cause it's not over yet!). Things are running smoothly and the level of presentation for the signage and documentation is absolutely stunning. A lot of effort obviously went into this.

Because I have to spend next week in the UK, I had to pack two weeks worth of clothing (to save having to do any washing). This has turned out to have been completely unrequired, as I have acquired a week's worth of clothing in free tat.

chillaxing

Tuomas Kuosmanen: GUADEC Photostream

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:43:50 +0000

So in my mad blogging spree, i started to add some photos to the GUADEC Flickr group. Check it out, it has quite a bit of content already. And also, add your pics too, and comment away

Tor Lillqvist: Three weeks in France

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:30:49 +0000

I am leaving with the family (me, wife, 5 (almost) -year daughter, 15-year son) for three weeks of vacation in France today. We'll first spend five days in Paris, then tour around the country on a zone E Inter-Rail ticket (covers France and the Benelux countries).

After Paris, we don't really have any preplanned itinerary, except that I did buy couchette reservations for three night journeys (Lyon-Quimper, Hendaye-Nice and Tarbes-Paris), which provides fixes where we need to be on the evening of those days, at least.

Some places I would like to see are the Millau bridge, the château de Chenonceaux, the Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, and the viaduc les Fades. I also would like to travel on lots of the more slower local railway lines, of which there still are lots in France, and not just TGV. Travelling with the family reduces the geeky (trains, architecture) aspects of the trip, though. The daughter of course wants to visit Disneyland, eek.

Máirín Duffy: Photos from GUADEC

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:50:13 +0000

Our bungalow:

Scenery:

Conference:

There's some awesome graffiti around town:

Cool OJ maker:

I went to a cafe where they used this contraption to make fresh-squeezed orange juice. The girl kept piling whole oranges into the top, and they'd drop down, get sliced in half, and get squeezed into a glass placed below. :) Very, very yuumy!

Federico Mena-Quintero: Wed 2006/Jun/28

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:45:00 +0000

My GUADEC slides:
- How much faster? (ODP file)
- Cómo perder la virginidad (o cómo escribir y mandar tu primer parche) (ODP file)

Máirín Duffy: Seen in Vilanova

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:43:32 +0000

Has some GNOME-y person been tagging around town? ;-)

Christopher Blizzard: grippe

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:02:46 +0000

Anyone else at GUADEC having this wonderful experience with a cold? I know Luis is affected. And I hear others at the conference are also getting their butts kicked.

Christopher Blizzard: OLPC BOF Moved to Thursday at 12

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:58:33 +0000

We’ve moving the OLPC BOF that’s scheduled at GUADEC from Thursday at 5pm to Thursday at high noon. We’re replacing Miguel’s Gtk# & Mono Q&A.

Tell your friends!

Miguel de Icaza: Mexico, Elections

miguel@gnome.org (Miguel de Icaza) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:41:00 +0000

Am going back to Mexico to vote on this Sunday's election.

Am voting for Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO/PRD).

The smear campaign against AMLO has been quite intense, a few mexicans in Barcelona told me the most amazing stories. The rumors being spread include "If AMLO wins, four families will be forced to live in an appartment", "AMLO is being financed by Fidel Castro", "If AMLO wins, you will only be able to buy food with food coupons from the state".

It sounds like a list of recycled cold-war era propaganda.

Thats the kind of thing you have to make up, when your candidate gets caught up in a corruption scandal using a creative setup and miss-using federal information.