Life & hacking

If you look to the left you will see that after nearly four years on Planet GNOME I now have a hackergotchi (thanks Kat) and I am joining the famous hat fraction.

GUADEC

This is even more important because now you can finally find the person that broke half of your development environment at GUADEC because, yeah,

and I am

This is also a good place to remind you of the world-famous FreeFA cup where you can save the honour of your country. In the last years this has been lots of fun so be sure that you aren’t missing it.

Five Questions

1)Who are you and what do you do?

Sometimes, I really would want to know that 😉 On other days, I am a 25 year old student/trainee who currently builds trains for work and hacks on the GNOME Development Tools in his spare time.

2) How did you get into GNOME?

I wrote a patch…

3) Why are you coming to GUADEC?

It always much better to meet all the people you only now from blogs, IRC and mail in person. Most people in the GNOME community are actually pretty awesome and fun to hang out with. And don’t forget about the beer event of course…

4) In 1 sentence, describe what your most favorite recent GNOME project has been. (Doesn’t have to be yours!)

GNOME Shell (yeah, I know some people said this already), because it is the first time since about Windows 95 where someone really tried to reinvent the desktop user experience.

5) Will this be your first time visiting the Netherlands?

No, I have been to Amsterdam and I sailed on IJsselmeer twice. Nice country, a bit flat though.

LinuxTag

As Vincent already mentioned we had a nice talk at LinuxTag and there is also a (german) radio interview with me about GNOME3.

Was fun to talk to some people, especially to one of the KDevelop developers who faces about the same problems as we do: There are 10 people working full time on QtCreater while Anjuta and KDevelop probably have 5 spare time contributers each 😐 Awesome though, that we are still competitive 🙂