Author Archives: aklapper
Google Code-In status
Google Code-In contest has started on Monday and things are going nicely apart from interpretating contest rules (solved on the gci-discuss mailing list), slowness in task list access (fixed by Google yesterday), and way less email notifications than expected (you … Continue reading
MeeGo Conference 2010
The enthusiasm at this conference was pretty impressive. It was probably the right boost for the MeeGo project at the right time as engineers of involved companies could get to know each other and hopefully now also understand a bit … Continue reading
GNOME accepted for Code-In; Tasks needed!
Good news: GNOME has been accepted for Google Code-In that starts on Nov 22nd! Now we need your tasks for students, may they be about Code, Documentation, Outreach, QA, Research, Training, Translation, UI. Please take a moment and think about … Continue reading
24.10.2010
Schlingensiefs Fünfzigsten angemessen verbracht. Keine Rotweinscheiße.
Google Code-In: GNOME needs your tasks!
Some might remember Google’s GHOP contest in 2007/08. It will take place again under the name Google Code-In (GCI) from November 2010 to January 2011. GCI is a “small sibling” of Google Summer of Code for highschool students (13 to … Continue reading
Opfer!
Vor einigen Tagen beim Schlendern durch Vršovice wurde ich erheblich verwirrt durch eine Hauswandschmiererei als Kombination deutscher Sprache, aktuell formulierter jugendlicher Missfallensäusserung und einer Schreibschrift, die seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr gelehrt wird und für die bereits meine werte Mutter zu … Continue reading
GNOME 2.32 is out.
It was a hectic day. GNOME 2.32, the last 2.x version, is out now! Big thanks to all the hackers, translators, bugsquadders, documentation writers, artists, marketing folks, …. Personally I’m proud that our small translation team again managed to have … Continue reading
Jhbuild’ing GNOME 3.0: No fun.
Hadn’t compiled GNOME for a while so I gave it a shot yesterday evening. I ran jhbuild build evolution which should build everything required for Evolution. I had a fresh and empty install directory.I don’t post this to blame anybody … Continue reading
Music.
Probably everybody who is interested in music has this list of bands in mind that s/he could never see in concert because they had split up too early. In my case these have been Refused and Atari Teenage Riot. After … Continue reading
Rain.
It was raining outside, and suddenly also inside. That’s nothing new – normally I can blame my windows for that. But this time the reason was platform-independent: It’s one of the (unused) network cables.
