So it seems that its official that Convergence is bankrupt. How they managed to do so it a bit of a mystery, but severe mismanagement seems to be the common theory. For a company that seemed to have the right people and the right technology at the right time, it is kinda tragic that it ended like this.

Opens some new opportunities for Fluendo though, not that we really need them as we seem to have more options available than we have resources to pursue.

Spent quite some time this weekend working on the SVG flag collection. While we have more flags than those on the sodipodi website it has taken time to get everything up on openclipart due to opencliparts use/demand of inline metadata. Having this metadata is a good thing, but it is quite a lot of work to add it to every flag. With my work today I hope than openclipart 0.11 will contain all flags assembled with good high quality metadata fields. Discovered some bugs in inkscape and SVG_Metadata perl scripts though. And Caleb is also fixing one bug found in librsvg. I strongly encourage others who have SVG files which misrenders in either inkscape or librsvg to file bugs as such bugs will be fixed as both teams have the manpower and determination to have first class handling. If SVG is to overtake proprietary formats we need to ensure that all our tools handle it alike and close to perfect. If all SVG renderes and editors developed do things a little differently it is enough to render the standard worthless.

David Neary is working hard on getting a plan for GNOME merchandising in place. This is important as it can give GNOME another financial leg to stand on in bringing in money to help make events such as GUADEC and the GNOME summits even better and help sponsor more developers to attend. Seem to be diverse interests on the board this year which is could cause it means multiple things will be approached and worked on.