Managed to get my website w3c compliant for both the html and the css. Think the w3c will feel violated by that, but hey, thats life.

The use of SVG and librsvg in games seems to be slowly growing. Learned today that the developer of Wormux is working on adding SVG support. This map map was made with Inkscape and will hopefully in future releases be rendered using librsvg inside Wormux.

Tried working a bit on gnome-themes-extras today. But I am not able to get make dist working anymore.
I am getting messages like this

tar: gnome-themes-extras-0.8.0/Gorilla/icons/scalable/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-x-gnome-app-info.svg: file name is too long (max 99); not dumped
If anyone have a clue about it please mail me on uraeus-gnome-org. I am pretty sure it is a change in some underlying system as the g-t-e package has not changed its structure recently.

Daniel linked to a fun little hack in his blog today.

Zaheer got Flumotion streaming from his Mosque yesterday. So you can now get your weekly dosage of Islam in Ogg Theora/Vorbis format. Nice to see people being able to use the work we do at Fluendo to offer services like this to their local community. (disclaimer: I am still an atheist :)

Sometimes I get depressed about the silly stuff the norwegian government does. Even now that I don’t live there anymore. Latest and greatest is that a Norwegian government agency has started a scientific study into wether earthworms feel pain or not. The reason for this seems because they wonder if fishing with earthworms on the hook can constitute sadistical behaviour towards animals under norwegian law……please can somebody please take away the budget of these people?

Rumour has it that Daniel Stone hacked fd.o himself just to drive more traffic to his blog :)

Time has come for us to start pushing flumotion harder. Most people seem to get the latest version working easily and the flumotion.net website should be up this weekend at least. So next week I will start figuring out how to get as much attention as possible onto the server from people also outside the traditional crowd. One early goal is getting some of the radio stations streaming Ogg Vorbis to start using it for instance.

Bastien was extremely quick to fix my latest Totem bug report. I requested support for drag and dropping url’s from the webbrowser into Totem, so that people could for instance drag and drop the Fluendo office URL onto Totem to test it. The day after my report the enhancement was implemented, thanks Bastien!

I now have the l33t3st webpage since the golden era of Enlightenment.

Found Jon Lech Johansen’s blog and homepage yesterday through Ronald. Seems he is hacking on a lot of cool stuff, like his screenshot showing windows media 9 or his tool to support streaming music to the applet airport express. Wonder what it would take to get him to work on his stuff in a GStreamer context :) Judging by his screenshots he is running GNOME with the Gartoon theme.

Richard Hoelscher showed me a screenshot today of his work making Gnotski scalable using librsvg. While it was nice I still maintain that the main problem with Gnotski is that I never understood how to play the game :)

Freedesktop being out of commison has kept us from making a new release of gst-plugins, which contains a lot of fixes for both playback and flumotion. A new release of gst-plugins is also a pre-req for Ronald to be able to release his video recorder application.

They said it was not possible, but I managed to do it. After my ‘two weeks’ schedule ended up being 3 months I have now managed to put my photos from my little trip to Borneo, Australia, South Africa and Namibia online. Go to www.linuxrising.org to check them out, this especially goes for anyone who had any contact with me during the trip :)

Next step is actually making a real homepage :)

Almost forgot, connected my camera to Fedora 3 for the first time today. All I got to say is Rock On! Having the camera being identified and a window popping up asking me if I wanted to get the images from the camera was just great. No more fiddling with gphoto (which worked but sucked UI wise). And they say it never pays living on the bleeding edge :)

As a comment I can’t help but feel the Linux Core Consortium smells for United Linux 2 with a little different branding.

Another day with lots of stuff happening. Wim added some queing and a status toolbar and info to his Java applet. The office teststream already use the updated applet.

Jan had a really great
screenshot of running a lot of visualization plugins after he cleaned up the GStreamer visualization plugins. Rather nifty command line pipeline to display those plugins in his terminal too.

Bilboed posted a nice updated shoot of the Pitivi NLE. Looking sweeter by the day.

Worked on various job related contracts today, looking forward to being able to announce those as I think the community will be very happy about them.

Also took the time to reply to the Foundation election candidate questions. Think I was the third one out to do so, so I guess it mean I am not a total slacker :)

Also did some QA work over the last few days, very happy to see that Benjamin’s and Ronald’s ALSA fixes cleared up my issues using ALSA. Hopefully they solve 100% CPU problems for other people as well.

We got a new toy into the office today, but I am letting Thomas announce it when he has some cool stuff to show around it :)

Also found a new GStreamer based application today, Eina

Seems an basic webpage for Pitivi the GStreamer based Non-linear Video editor is available. Since working on Pitivi will be one of Edwards main tasks when he arrives at Fluendo in March I hope we can make it an application a lot of people want to use.

Spent the end of last week with Wim and the Imendio guys. Some people just pop up in the strangest of places. Then again I know Mikael, Anders and Richard go to all countries where they expect to see scantily clad women so I guess I shouldn’t have been suprised at seeing them.

Decided to try and get my co-workers at Fluendo to join me in signing up for a green card course at one of Barcelona’s many golf courses. The excitement towards the idea hasn’t been through the roof yet, but I hope that will happen once I get them onto the field :)

Working on a bugfix release of the flumotion streaming server. Starting too look nicer as more and more robustness fixes and polish gets in. Thomas did a very nice hack today to get the hardware name into the GUI today, so instead of just having /dev/video0 you are now told it is a Logitech Webcam for instance. I did a teststream from my extremely low quality webcam today using the server.
viewing the stream in 3 different players. It is nice to see that Theora support is getting quite widespread :)

audio cd playing does not work for me with Fedora 3; and it looks like /dev/cdrom is not generated for me; cause it a DVD? Recreatig /dev/cdrom fixed only part of the problem. need to investigate more and file a report.

Also tested the JDS livecd Callum linked to. It works well, in fact some stuff feels snappier than on my FC3 install. Guess they do some pre-loading or ramdisk magic to make that happen.I also think the wide ‘start’ button is a nice feature as its is easier to hit then the small hat/foot I struggle with today.

One not so nice thing about JDS is that they include a lot of different technologies, but does nothing to make them look relativly the same. Why for instance are the Java apps not using GTK+ look and feel? And a theme for Yast/Qt so it looks like the Sun GTK+ would make the admin tools a little less alien.

So I posted my candidacy for the GNOME foundation board today. Hopefully we will have enough candidates to make it a real vote, think I would feel better not getting on the board after being part of a large field of candidates than getting on the board due to there not being enough candidates to make it a real election. Anyway I hope anyone reading this will vote for me :)

Zaheer have gotten quite some downloads of his Caster live-cd. He only announced it in his blog, so I guess planetgnome actually has a decent readership. Next step is for zaheer to start merging the DVB plugins for gstreamer :)

Iain is working on getting ding-caching abstraction into GStreamer. It is the last thing needed before we can make GNOME only rely on GStreamer instead of directly on a sound server. This will make the transition to using polypaudio much smoother and it will also make sure that when someone wants to ouput directly to their soundcards, then everything gets sent that way, not just most of the stuff. We just have to hope that the iain@gnomedorks.org email address I set him up with will not distract him to much from the hacking :)

Discovered that the new Novell desktop comes with alsa disabled in regards to gstreamer. Had hoped that Suse being ‘the’ alsa company would have patched our plugin instead of fixing it. Anyway Ronald will be working on making the alsa plugin robust now that we have chained ogg support working in GStreamer CVS.

Also happy to see Bastien propose Totem/GStreamer for inclusion in GNOME. Would be happier if he had tried the solution himself, but I guess you can’t win em all :)

Also noted that Martin Soto commited his new cothreads based scheduler into GStreamer CVS this weekend. Hopefully this means he started on merging upstream his changes to GStreamer to get ‘perfect’ DVD support going.

Jan is hacking on annodex support for GStreamer. Guess we even try to add support for it in the java applet player. Hopefully we can so do fun stuff like the clickable tv casts seen in Starship troopers. ‘Want to learn more?’ :)

Finally got my domains moved over to apestaart. Hopefully I get email working again soon so my gnome.org mail don’t start bouncing. Since it is set up now I guess I have no more excuses for not getting enterprisegnome.com going :)

Already up and running on Fedora 3, think it is the first time I am doing some before the offical release :) Now is only Thomas will hurry up about getting updated rpms with webcam and wireless drivers ready :) The Nvidia rpm from livna already installed :)

Congrats to Eugenia and gnomefiles for reaching over 500 projects listed the last few days. gnomefiles has become a daily stop for me to check out what new apps have been released and which have been updated.

Checked out nvidia’s webpage today in relation to some special effects software. Saw
an image on their frontpage and thought WOW, the time has come for me to get one of those modded machines if they have started looking that cool. A second look made me realize it was just a promotional drawing from nvidia and not a real box :)

mallum posted some job adds from Nokia on advogato for people to do some GNOME style multimedia programming. I thought I repost the
offer 1 and
offer 2 for people reading Planet GNOME and Planet GStreamer. I think people looking for a job will find Nokia’s plans in this area very interesting and rewarding to work on.

I updated the appliation list today. Adding a lot of new projects. Think Murray will be very happy to see Towel for instance, which is using gtkmm :)