Working for $0
Dave Winer writes:
OSCON, last week, has done its job and stirred the embers of the Great Open Source Debate of the 1990s. I found myself writing in an email yesterday: “Very little really usable software has come from people who are willing to work for $0. (I chose my words carefully, infrastructure is another matter […]
Plan 9
So, I’m sitting in the main lecture room, watching Keith Packard, Jim Gettys and Rob Pike chatting about old school UNIX stuff. Plan 9 on the main screen, awaiting Rob Pike’s talk about “plumbing”. No idea what this is going to be about.
Okay, so it turned out to be a talk about an idea for contextual […]
GNOME 2.0 Debrief
Besides having a stupid toilet seat without a VGA interface, the talk went well. Sounds like everyone is on the same page, both on the release team and hacker community sides. Very encouraging, looking forward to a lengthier discussion meeting tomorrow. I’ll put my magicpoint stuff online soon.
GStreamer
Sitting in thomasvs’s GStreamer talk, listening to a […]
Boston
Sitting in Luis’ cube at Ximian’s Boston office. Bumping into all the Ximian dudes as they arrive for a leisurely start to their working day at… noon.
Caught the subway in with Luis, breakfasting on cinnamon raisin bagels with walnut and honey spread. Yum!
Playtime is over.
I’ll be on flight LH420 from Frankfurt to Boston, arriving at 19:50 local time.
Taking on a Small Planet
Rome, Boston, San Francisco. This trip is a two week mix of much-needed (and hopefully very disciplined) relaxation, romantic stay on the coast of Italy, lots of hard work on GNOME stuff, and the accompanying crazy live GNOME fun.
There won’t be much here in the next week, as I’ll be doing the relaxation […]
Free Your Pizza
spiv and I have been enjoying some time in front of the oven and stove cooking dinner for our housemates. I’ve always loved cooking, spiv maintains that he doesn’t know anything about it (which is complete bollocks), and we both dislike cleaning after it… we’re hoping that at some stage, our less active housemates […]
hadess
Dude, did you try sweep? Works on PPC. conrad used to be the SLUG El Presidente, and is an All Round Cool Dude.
GNOME
Got the 2.0.x
schedule and 2.1.x branching summary done. Two rapid maintenance releases, and we’ll be most of the way to full-on 2.1.x development. The planets are aligning for some really cool stuff in GNOME […]
