Entries from April 2006 ↓

Are *Forge sites worth it?

April 23rd, 2006 — General

Is it just me or are GForge, Sourceforge and Savannah and the likes very much lacking on usability, or simply being useful, side?

At least I find myself constantly going to the “real” home page to find something rather than going to the Documentation and Screenshots sections in those sites. One reason, I think, is that even though the site lacks content it feels busy (but consistently) and the “real” home is often much more useful at glance. Another reason is that those dedicated sections are usually empty.

Which would suggest that they’re not so convenient to update, either. I don’t even want to think about the different trackers and horrible mailing list archives. And making releases in Sourceforge is interestingly complicated as I recall.

So I have to wonder, do people, either as users or maintainers, find these sites making their lives easier?

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Maemo goes to GUADEC

April 23rd, 2006 — General

This year in GUADEC you’ll be seeing quite a few Maemo presentations. I hope we get a good track for handhelds to last over the whole GUADEC. Would be nice to get more core developers pay attention to handheld aspects as well.

I’ll be giving (at least one) presentation this year so guess I should find a photo to GUADEC speakers list. I wonder if I could find a decent one, I think I’ve been too successful in avoiding cameras. And other times I don’t make any pretty pictures anyway.

I’m pondering whether to participate in the soccer match. I’d like to think I used to be pretty good, but that was so long ago. Now I’m so out of shape and practice I can’t even recall whether my both feet were left or right.

I’ve been to GUADEC only once before, but I can easily see how this year could be the best ever… until next year.

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