Really excellent to see the Novell dudes using DTrace to fix up Evolution’s memory leaks. Great things will come of this I’m sure, and looking forward to seeing what things they find. I wonder if a DTrace script repository for GNOME may be a good idea.
Seemingly on his way to Brisbane – Alo, why didn’t you say you were going to be in town for a while? Or maybe it’s your evil twin brother?
Not a bad year travelwise – visiting Ireland, Germany, Singapore, Australia, China, Thailand, and the US. Best conference was still Linux.conf in Adelaide, although GUADEC was a really fun family affair in Stuttgart. Best business trip was the Solaris Desktop Summit over in San Francisco a couple months ago. Best food had to be the various places that Patrick took us to in Beijing. Best chilled out atmosphere was the beaches in Tonsai Bay, Thailand.
Hopefully will get some more traveling under my belt in 2006, although no big trips planned just yet! It would be neat to attend the Boston GNOME Summit again, and maybe some new conferences too, like OSCON and LinuxWorld. Hopefully I’ll have another few visits to Beijing and the US too if I’m lucky!
Happy frequent flyers everybody!
Went to see Narnia with Ethan and Clodagh today. A totally more satisfying experience compared to King Kong.
Maybe I missed it in the news, but it seems like the first company centered around services for a custom OpenSolaris distribution has been formed – Nexenta Systems, Inc. Hell, it might even by the first company based on Ubuntu too!
Their website has the following –
Membership fees also pay the salaries of employees who often contribute, directly or indirectly, to “external” Free Software projects such as the OpenSolaris, KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice, and others.
so I’m looking forward to seeing lots of GNOME patches go upstream in the near future.
Hal Stern, Simon Phipps and Stephen Hahn talk about Open Communities – worth watching.
Met up with Jeff, Pia and Ellie for lunch today – great to see them all again. A couple of beers and talking the shit looking out onto Darling harbour was a nice way to spend the afternoon. We then went back to his place where he showed me his pool, jacuzzi and sauna. He even let me borrow his pants for the occasion, which may be due to the fact that he seems set on wearing pretty little frocks instead these days. Not sure what’s happening there. but anyway, I digress….
We hatched a plan!
If you are attending GNOME.conf.au and Linux.conf.au we have some pretty interesting ideas we want to test out, since we’re now in the PARTICIPATION AGE!.
During the recent Solaris Desktop Summit, I re-echoed one of my basic gripes about open source communities. So often it as much about the people and personalities as it is about the technology. Don’t get me wrong, technology is important, but what’s the point in technology if you don’t have the right channel to advertise it, the people evangelize it. So it’s wonderful to see that the Netbeans dudes are groking that need, and even more so to see Roumen in that role, and taking on a community manager.
The OpenSolaris dudes have grokked it as well, and I’d love to see the Java guys grok it, with deep respect to James for what he’s done.
The reason so many of these communities thrive are because of enigmatic leaders, excited about the technology they’re working on. Everyone wants a role model – and as Jeff would say, stand up, and be the signal.
Here’s me thinking that no one has really tried to build GNOME 2.12 out on OpenSolaris land – the reality of the fact is that there is a small thriving community of people trying to build, and it’s wonderful to see. Too bad the mixture of technology isn’t getting that feedback into my mailbox. Sorry everyone, hopefully we’ll get this fixed real soon.
Eric pointed out where to get KDE and GNOME for Solaris and OpenSolaris. One of his links made me cry. Now I’m all for promoting the GNOME brand in our software stack. I believe it’s hugely important for us to do so and we almost certainly don’t do it enough currently, but we probably need to fix that link to point to JDS somehow, and organize this one a little better.
