Fancy working for Sun in the JDS group? There’s an open opportunity. Not only do you get to liase with local engineering groups and engineering groups in China, Germany, India and the US, but you also get to listen to me constantly moan at our weekly team meetings. Bonus! Send me your resumes/CVs if you’re interested.
It’s like a gmail account, and I’m probably one of the last few to get one. A nice little machine, although the clock doesn’t seem to recognize New Zealand as being a place you can live – oops! Looking forward to playing with it over the next while, although I guess I’m going to have to install Linux on one of these boxes first.
For the first time since 2.0 days, I’m finally dogfooding GNOME 2.13.x on Solaris. There’s lots of small issues, but for the most part it looks real sweet. The next part is just getting our build environment out onto a public source code management repository, but hopefully we’re not too far away from that. Rock on!
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!.
