Last year at GUADEC I promised to help the SUN people make their (lengthily vague) API/ABI stability documentation requirements meet up with GNOME’s API/ABI stability practices, so everyone can learn about the good stuff that we do, and so we can recommend some minor improvements. We almost got there.
But the draft document is still not […]

GUADEC
Tomorrow I fly to Vilanova, near Barcelona, to attend the GNOME conference. Afterwards, I’ll stay in Barcelona over the weekend for some touristing.
I’m looking forward to GUADEC as a kind of holiday where I can spend the time just doing things that I find interesting. I’ve had the guilty pleasure of not helping at […]

I don’t have much time for coding right now, but I can still abuse my blog to suggest fun stuff for others to do. Then I can put the results together when I’m free again at the end of September.
I’d love if it someone patched Postgres to announce itself over the network with Avahi. Then […]

Could someone put this poster up in Munich’s Technical University, please?

Because open source wants to be the solution, not the problem.

We finally had our apartment-warming party, which turned out really well, with lots of our favourite people and the drama of a German goal to win in the 91st minute.
Josh made the journey to Munich. He’s recently been in Austria doing some German-language Ubuntu Linux training videos with Video2Brain. They sound like a great bunch […]

I don’t understand. Why did almost nobody list their ideas on the Mentored Projects page? There was all kinds of discussion about what projects should be in the Google Summer Of Code, and lots of potential mentors didn’t have their favourite projects chosen. So, give the task another chance.

As GUADEC approaches, it’s really time for me to update my hackergotchi so people don’t tell me afterwards that they wished I had been there.

Unfortunately this also means that less people will meet me and remember me as particularly wise and with a German accent too. If you’ve had that experience already then you’ve actually […]