For me, one of the great things about this year's Advisory Board meeting, the day after GUADEC, was the all-out telling-off that IBM's Greg Kelleher gave us when he rushed in at the end after seeing a customer. He pointed out that the big GNOME deployment stories are short on details [1], so they aren't [...]

Further to yesterday's list, let's have a big box of stuff for GNOME events, and a UPS/Fedex account to send it around. Simple. Don't fear the wiki – add your thoughts.

Could all the speakers please try to link/upload their slides and/or notes on this GUADEC presentations page, please. Fluendo plan to have all their GUADEC video archives online soon too.

GNOME Deutschland want to get serious about our presence at fairs and conferences, such as the following events in Germany. There are a lot of new users out there – we want to rock their world and win them over. This needs some planning, so here's some initial event ideas. Please do add your ideas [...]

I'd like everyone to know how incredibly effective our local volunteers were, and how they saved us from disaster. They made it all possible. Firstly, Hanno Wagner and Jörg Hoh from Stuttgart gave us complete wireless internet coverage, overcoming several near-catastrophic problems along the way. They set it up in a day or so, and [...]

Just taking a moment to blog before I head to Karlsruhe for the weekend to take care of some other stuff. GUADEC was fantastic, intense, and incredibly productive, even though I only got to see about four and a half talks, along with helping to organise it and doing all kinds of board stuff. Combined, [...]