Author Archives: aklapper

“Scheitern als Chance.”

Oder in abgewandelter Form: Rest in Peace, Christoph Schlingensief. Ich bin dankbar für all die Einflüße.

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Die Systemfrage und die Gerechtigkeit.

Nach Lektüre von Texten wie “Mein Jahr in der Linkspartei” und “Der Sozialismus ist gar nicht so übel” in der FAZ (der Artikel ist nicht mehr online verfügbar, aber das Teilfazit) tauchen manchmal Ideale, die Realität da draußen, und die … Continue reading

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Three interesting Maemo5 bits

End of Life for Maemo5 hildon-desktop & friends. Being honest and communicating that something is dead: New, and good. On the wishlist for next time: Announce it on the developer mailing list (though that implies interaction with people outside of … Continue reading

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Identifying projects and localization teams in need / GUADEC 2010

The talk (at GUADEC). Apart from the usual Release Team service announcement and its charming follow-up street fights and the two short Bugsquad and Localization reports at the AGM meeting I also had the pleasure to present a talk about … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

It’s 3 AM, GUADEC is big fun as usual, I’m in the hotel lobby, and as I have only seen one summary blogpost on planet.gnome.org yet I’d like to mention that GNOME 3.0 will be released in March 2011. Good … Continue reading

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Stallman keynote‽

Having attended last year’s GCDS keynote one sentence in the latest GNOME Foundation board meeting minutes scared me: “GNOME.Asia/COSCUP: Richard Stallman will be doing a keynote”. As I was told that he has received a copy of GNOME’s new Speaker … Continue reading

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Next maemo.org Bugday: Wed, June 30th, 16:00-00:00 UTC

Announcing another maemo.org Bugday: Wednesday, June 30th, 16:00-00:00 UTC in #maemo-bugs on Freenode IRC No specific topic set – take a look at our wiki for some ideas. Bugdays are about hanging out together on IRC, triaging/discussing some reports in … Continue reading

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GNOME modules that do not yet work with GTK3

Quick update of the list of modules (not necessarily complete) that do not yet work with GTK3. Note: The table does not cover porting apps to use both GTK2 and GTK3. Tickets with background color are blocked by missing GTK+ … Continue reading

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MyNokia in Maemo’s PR1.2 release

(I’m not the first person to cover this topic, anyway.) After upgrading my Nokia N900 to the latest software version (PR1.2) I got a “MyNokia” screen after rebooting. Nokia was kind enough to offer me both subscribing to their MyNokia … Continue reading

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Heads up: GNOME 2.31 soon to ship GTK+ 2.90

(copying from devel-announce-list) The GNOME Release Team plans to ship GTK+ 2.90 from GNOME 2.31.4 on. This requires module maintainers to port their modules now (if you don’t want an angry release-team mob soon in front of your house). We … Continue reading

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