GUADEC notes

20. July 2007

So GUADEC is absolutely rocking. OK, we do not talk about British weather but the rest is absolutely awesome!

Some notes:

  • Gtk+ 3.0 (or 4.0) seems to be necessary to make the work for maintainers easier. Anyway, until now I see no real reason for breaking two much of the API. Just break all this stuff which is crap and leave the rest as close to the current API as possible. BTW, the GTK+ developers/maintainers really rock – thank you!
  • GOD is definitly a bad acronym for Gnome Online Desktop but we might still have lots of advantages by making all those popular web techniques available for the Desktop. Not really making everything like web but giving the people the choice to use the things they want in an easy to use fashion (Google stuff, YouTube, Flickr, whatever…)
  • There are really many people out there fixing the platform and making it ready for the next generation desktop (gvfs, dconf for example)

Unrelated notes:

  • danilo persuaded me to join the i18n-list and he definitly made the hardest party on tuesday.
  • Vincent seems to be a very important member of the community but nobody really knows what he is doing 🙂
  • Behdad should start fixing the bugs if he wants his hat back
  • Met lots of other rockstars like Murray, Naba, Philip, Jens, Andreas, MacSlow to mention some
  • I am waiting for the power in the ETAP hotel to break down completely because all those people put their notebooks in the same socket and they already broke three.
  • For next GUADEC we need l10n for the name plates and they need to contain nicknames
  • My talk was not that great, at least IMHO. But people seem to be interested in the project so I hope things will improve!