Tag Archives: FLOSS

Timeline: It’s 2009… and they have a plan

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part seven of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Recap The GNOME User Experience Hackfest of October 2008 spawned a science project to build a new user experience — GNOME Shell — … Continue reading →

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Moving the needle in GNOME

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part six of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. I was incredibly tempted to entitle this post, “Pushing your turds into GNOME’s immaculate and exalted vessel”, but thought it might be taken … Continue reading →

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Timeline: The Greatest Show on Earth

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part five of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Every now and then, the inexorable passage of time is rudely interrupted, and the natural path of history is changed before our very … Continue reading →

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Love flies under the radar

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part four of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Tempers will occasionally flare in large communities with many stakeholders. There will always be a delta between the goals, strategies and assumptions of … Continue reading →

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The libappindicator Story

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part three of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Tensions rose this week as claims were made and refuted — mostly as comments on blog posts about entirely different issues! – about the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on GNOME

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Note: This post is part two of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. When you think about the huge mainstays of the Open Source world, GNOME is right up there with the likes of Mozilla, … Continue reading →

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On the relationship between Canonical and GNOME

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

I can’t count the number of times over the last three years (!) that I have written and deleted a post about Canonical’s worsening relationship with GNOME. Having worked for Canonical and held a leadership role in GNOME, I’ve felt … Continue reading →

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No(uveau), Mum…

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

Ah, the life and times of a kernel hacker…

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Cliques, invitations and meritocracies

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

So am I paranoid? Are invite-only events a necessary evil? Or should I let my curiousity overcome my principles? Hey, maybe one of those web 2.0 types could help me enable comments on my blog… — Rusty Russell, The foocamp … Continue reading →

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QoTD: Bill Hilf

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Jeff Waugh

“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s … Continue reading →

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