Yesterday was my first experience of an Advisory Board conference call, and it was delightfully uneventful. However, I did think it was a shame no one mentioned THE MOST IMPORTANT THING that happened recently, which was the release of GNOME 2.18. I was going to, but we ran out of time before AOB.
Bit disappointed to learn one or two people weren’t taking the call as seriously as they might[1], as there are a lot of possible positives that could come out of these meetings if we could turn words into actions. Collaboration between some of the major GNOME companies is something I’ve been thinking is desperately needed to rejuvenate some areas of the GNOME project.
[1] Some people have asked what I meant by this, so I’ll just clarify it was a few comments being made on IRC at the time of the call. Nothing very serious, but just a little disappointing after such a useful and positive call.