The European GNOME Events Box and the posters are on their way to the Netherlands for their fourth event in four countries this year, at T-DOSE in Eindhoven this weekend. I’d like to plot the box’s travels on a Google Maps thingy.

Extra work has been taking up the spare capacity, so another slot at Openismus GmbH opened up. Employee number 4 is Armin Burgmeier, developer of the much-loved Gobby collaborative editor. He’s working part-time.
He’ll start with some C++ wrapping work, using gtkmm’s gmmproc to generate C++ bindings for an existing open-source GObject-based C API, for a [...]

I sneaked out of bed early this morning to invest some time in setting up Eclipse, hoping it can speed up my current tedious build/check/fix/build routine while working in Scratchbox.

You’ll want to install the recommended eclipse-gcj package as well as the eclipse package, because it seems to make it faster.
The Laika plugin requires a newer [...]

It always happens at the last minute, but we again have a great list of candidates for the GNOME Foundation board, possibly the best ever, and quite diverse. Dave Neary’s candidacy statement is promising yet pragmatic, and shows what the foundation is achieving, really fulfilling its purpose now that it’s cleared up the dull stuff. [...]

Time to ask the web again:
In Glom, I use PyRun_String() to execute python scripts from memory (the scripts are never on disk), and get the result. But I’d like those scripts to be able to import Python modules that are also in memory (in a virtual library of reusable code). Python’s import statement usually [...]

Since taking a high-level view of things again at the UDS, I am very tempted to run for the GNOME Board this year. Today is the last day for candidates to declare themselves. Apart from the general wish to help out, I’m mostly tempted because it’s a lot of fun and you get to chat [...]

I’ve covered the food and the flight, so now for some actual details about the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View.
Canonical (or Ubuntu, or even Google, not sure) sponsored travel and accommodation for “upstream” participants, including several people from GNOME and associated projects. Now that’s really working with upstream. We were new to the Ubuntu [...]

More blather about the San Franciso trip:
The security procedure at Munich was more thorough than expected, with three security checks to pass through, with everyone having their shoes, bags, and jackets scanned slowly. The staff were aggressive, rude, and dismissive. Transatlantic flights still have the no liquids rule (very small amounts allowed in transparent bags), [...]

The Ubuntu Developer Summit was hosted at Google, which was special.
The buildings are fairly ordinary, but there’s a bright lively atmosphere and a sense of abundance. I didn’t see many people over 30, and they all seem to enjoy life on the Google campus, protected from the grey world of highways outside. These people seem [...]

OK, so I can’t tell you much about what I’m doing, but I can tell you that I’m busy.
Tomorrow I fly to San Francisco to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit, at the Googleplex for the week. This is unrelated to everything else that I’m doing, but should be fun.
Since the start of September I’ve been [...]