Safe as Milk

links for 2007-06-16

• Neverness – Greed and need, or why I’m excited about Wengophone, the ‘open Skype’
  (tags: openwengo wengophone blog)
• Neverness – Is Wengophone the FOSS alternative to Skype?
  (tags: openwengo wengophone review blog)

links for 2007-06-15

• ONLamp.com — Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey
  Andy Oram ran a survey a while back on people’s motivations for helping with documentation. The response rate he got is pretty good, so his conclusions may be useful.
  (tags: free documentation)

links for 2007-06-13

• Linux.com | WengoPhone 2.1 gives Linux users a solid softphone
  Nathan Willis writes a review of the 2.1 release of the WengoPhone. “WengoPhone 2.1 is hands-down a better option for cross-platform VoIP calls than proprietary applications like Skype and Gizmo Project.” Lots of constructive advice to look at over the ne
  (tags: wengophone softphone openwengo wengophone2.1)

Montpellier

Many thanks to Pascal K. of ALL in Montpellier – they’re going to fit me in somewhere for the Journées du Libre on Saturday in the “Espace demo”. I don’t know where, but I’ll be there.

Journées du Libre à Montpellier

I was going to blog about my demo/presentation of OpenWengo at the Journées du Libre à Montpellier, but it seems like I’m not on the agenda, in spite of having had a session accepted.

I don’t know whether I’ll still go or not – but I’m a bit annoyed about being forgotten.

Away for a few days in the sun

My bosses at Wengo have organised a few days away for everyone in the company to relax together, get to know each other outside work, announce some news and generally pamper us a little – I’m not one to complain about a little pampering.

For these few days, I will not be reading my email. I’ll be back in the normal world with internet access on Saturday.

In the meantime, I’ve packed swimming togs, sports gear, sandals, … all I need now is a good storm & I’ll be set.

ITBS update

I’m back running – made just over 48 minutes in the 10k run in Lyon, with a little pain, at the end of April, and I’m now able to do a 5k training session at a good speed with almost no pain at all. Just finishing up physio, and hopefully I’ll be able to ramp up to running 3 times a week for about 20km total in a few weeks. The day I run for an hour with no after effects, I’ll be a happy man.

For those interested, I saw a chiropractor who gave me some good training tips (don’t over-train, mix low-impact sports like swimming & cycling until you have more distance under your belt) and who thought that the root cause of my injury was probably the fact that I was wearing shoes which corrected against pronation, while it appears I don’t need them. So I also got a new pair of runners for €120 – the most expensive footwear I’ve ever bought.

Blog memes

I never seem to get tagged by these blog memes (or at least, I’m never aware of it). I don’t know whether to consider myself lucky or unloved.

Not in Berlin

For those who had planned to go to Berlin especially to catch the Openwengo workshop on Thursday, I am sorry to let you know that I will be in Paris for some important meetings, and won’t be attending LinuxTag this year.

Upcoming travel

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be hitting the road again.I’m eager to meet up with Openwengo and GNOME people when travelling – drop me a line if you’re available.

• LinuxDays.ch, 23 & 24 May, Geneva:
  I’ll be giving two presentations during LinuxDays.ch, one on contributing to free software projects (including a focus on marketing GNOME) and one on the OpenWengo project, and our recent 2.1.0 release.
• LinuxTag, 31 May – 1 June, Berlin:
  A flying visit, I’m arriving on Wednesday evening, and flying out again on Friday. I’ll be on the look-out for GNOME people, and I’ll be giving a workshop presentation of OpenWengo.
• Journées du Libre, 15 June, Montpellier:
  A flying visit, I’m arriving on Friday night and training out again on Saturday evening. Looking forward to meeting up with people on Friday evening, and I’ll be giving a presentation on OpenWengo on Saturday.
• COPU Summit, 21 & 22 June, Guangzhou, China:
  I was invited to this last year but couldn’t go, this year I’ll be going along to meet with Chinese distributions and spread the Free Software gostpel to a high-powered group of executives from free softwarte companies and from the Chinese government.
• LUG Radio Live, 7 July, Wolverhampton:
  After exotic travel, I’ll be in the Black Country, telling LRL fans about the joys of OpenWengo, a great free software project that’s only going to get better. On condition that Anne my wife doesn’t need a lift to the hospital in the middle of the night. This will be my last travelling until after the Summer.

So there we have it. Aside from that, the company has organised a “retreat” for a few days in the South of France (oh, the pain) and I’ll be going up to Paris every week, as I have been for the last 6 months.

Ho hum.