Category Archives: computer

Anything that has to do with machines, internet, open source and technology.

Bits and pieces from GUADEC 2012.

This city is foggy at 3:30AM. Conference feels well organized and things (wifi, sound, projectors) work. Daniel said that his talk will include pictures of me but I think he fibs. Still not sure whether to consider him a trustworthy … Continue reading

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GUADEC conference! Next week!

Yet another notorious “I go to GUADEC” post. My everchanging plans are to provide the Bugsquad annual report at the AGM meeting and to maybe theoretically join Gil Forcada in his talk “Towards less i18n barriers and more (quality) translations” … Continue reading

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GNOME.Asia summit over

GNOME.Asia summit ended five hours ago. A big thanks to our friendly and welcoming organizers for their great work and the good time that we had (and still have) here in Hong Kong, and to the companies that sponsored this … Continue reading

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GNOME.Asia summit, Hongkong

Today I arrived in Hong Kong (PRC) to attend this year’s edition of GNOME.Asia summit at the City University of Hong Kong. It takes place on Saturday and Sunday and you can should check out the schedule in case that … Continue reading

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Wikimedia Hackathon, Berlin.

I’m in sunny and windy Berlin (Germany) again this weekend to attend Wikimedia’s “Hackathon” (Wikimedia is the organization behind Wikipedia and some other projects and websites, in case you didn’t know). I’d like to thank Wikimedia Foundation for the invitation. … Continue reading

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Publishing and writing text

It’s old news and Henri and others already covered it but I would also like to recommend this nice lecture: Lydia Pintscher published Open Device – FOSS: What we wish we had known when we started at this year’s FOSDEM … Continue reading

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Random recent photos.

GNOME Documentation hackfest team and venue in Brno: Same folks wondering how to use the “Documents” application: KDE 4.8 Prague Release Party Cake. Congrats to the KDE team: One installation of the “Middle East Europe” exhibition at DOX:

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The Book of Right-On

A quick and dirty blog post to keep the world out there in the loop about what is done by a dozen of people in a big meeting room with a view over Brno, right next to a small meeting … Continue reading

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GNOME Documentation hackfest

The first two days of the GNOME Documentation hackfest in Brno (CZ) are over. After I picked up a bunch of jetlagged folks at Prague airport to trick them to Brno, we kicked off at the Masaryk University by having … Continue reading

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Google Code-In 2011: Thanks!

Today Google Code-In 2011 ended. Out of the 136 tasks that the GNOME community provided, 124 were successfully resolved by highschool students. Achievements include code improvements in cheese, gnome-games, vino and other modules, improved or new documentation for Python and … Continue reading

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