Category Archives: lang-en
Wikimedia’s Bug Management
About three months ago I started as bugmaster / bugwrangler of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia). It’s about time to finally blog before everybody expects WMF to be the same black hole that Google is seen as … Continue reading
Občan K.: Questioning identity.
Two days ago the documentary “Občan K.” by artist group Ztohoven (homepage; Wikipedia article) was released. “Občan K.” translates to “Citizen K” but “občanka” is also the colloquial Czech word for an ID card – the plastic card issued by … 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
Free knowledge: Here we go.
I am very happy to announce that from next week on I am going to help Wikimedia Foundation (the organization behind Wikipedia and further projects) tame their bug tracker and manage everything and anything related to issue reports and feature … 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
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
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
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
