Category Archives: gnome
Lack of Maintainership & Finding a Project to Contribute to
One of the things I liked about the GNOME Documentation Hackfest (apart from the hospitality of Kat, Dave and the University of East Anglia) was the opportunity of teachers and students popping in and discussing open source project management related … Continue reading
GNOME Documentation Hackfest, Day 0
Reporting live from GNOME Docs Hackfest at Norridge, East Anglia. Fréd arrived after bypassing some tree falling on his way. But he was very late. Shaun is still in a snowstorm. Ryan has escaped that already. But fearless leader Kat, … Continue reading
2014: Plans.
Studying bug management To my disappointment my university seems to have no expertise available to mentor a diploma thesis about best practices and common problems in open source bug management. After ten years of working in this field there are … Continue reading
Shades of Blue
I’m not entirely sure what’s special about my machine (T61 Thinkpad) that makes it lock up and reboot at least once per day without a warning (but sometimes after showing things in blue), but I’ve decided to blame something down … Continue reading
Colors!
Save the money for LSD when you can have gnome-shell with a KMS kernel bug!
Fedora 19.
Two weeks ago I erased the harddisk on my Fedora machine and installed Fedora 19 from scratch. I was tempted to give Mageia a try instead, but as it’s my main machine which I also use for work I tried … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2012
Marina, Daniel, Muslim and I represented GNOME at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. As a nice coincidence, my colleagues Sumana and Rob also went their representing the Wikimedia Foundation. After attending a session about project management I realized … Continue reading
GNOME: Do you want to participate in Google Code-In?
While I organized and ran Google Code-In for GNOME for the last years (a contest for 13-17 year old students) I won’t have enough spare time this year. So the question is if GNOME wants to take part in it … Continue reading
GUADEC 2012: Discussions!
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘a faster horse’” — Henry Ford Continuing to write about this year’s GUADEC conference that ended a few days ago. It should be obvious that opinions in this … Continue reading
A Monday at GUADEC 2012
Today was the first of two BoF session days at this year’s GUADEC in not-too-hot Galicia. There are quite some BoFs taking place. As planned a few weeks ago I spent this morning with GNOME’s wonderful Accessibility crew. This led … Continue reading
