Good news. Novell's last-minute sponsorship allows us to make the GUADEC party half-price tomorrow (Monday). That's 10 Euros for entry, a little food, and all drinks until 11pm. You will need your GUADEC name badge to get that deal at the door.
It's nice to see Novell taking over the Ximian party tradition.
I don't understand the details, but maybe you do. Joerg Hoh mentions that they need a particular adaptor and/or suitable replacement 11a access point to make the internet connection to the building across the road. Maybe someone can find/lend something? Comments to him, not me, please.
Don't forget that Nokia and Stuttgart Business Region are giving a GUADEC speakers' reception tomorrow (Saturday) at 7pm.
I'm off to GUADEC soon, probably visiting Karlsruhe tomorrow along the way. I'll arrive in Stuttgart early Saturday morning for the GNOME Foundation board meeting, then es geht los on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday,
This year's GUADEC has been stressful to organize, largely because we haven't communicated well enough together, and because we didn't get all the local support that we'd planned on. However, the Open Source Region Stuttgart and bwcon have helped us out with many details, in addition to providing the venue and generally dealing well with the amorphous social entity that is GNOME. I do think that this year has shown that most of the GUADEC preparation could be done by a distributed group of people all over the world, with just a few people on the ground, if you have a checklist and a pessimistic schedule.
Most of the infrastructure and organisation on the day is being done by Hanno Wagner and Jörg Hoh, plus the group of locals that they gathered together. They have shown great commitment, energy, and professionalism. It is absolutely verboten that they should ever have to buy their own drinks during GUADEC.
Their are sure to be some problems and irritations on the day, but you can be sure that the volunteers are doing their very best and that we know we are not perfect. The wiki should help you stay informed.
I always arrive at GUADEC stressed and I always leave uplifted. Careful or I might hug you.
I was in Copenhagen at the weekend. It’s pretty when the sun shines, and it has a nice mix of european quality of life with British-style consumer choice. Specifically, I mean, there’s pavement cafés, but you can also get bagels and vegetable samosas at the 7-11. I notice these things. It’s also expensive like London, and they talk funny.
The Illums Bolighus design store was probably my favourite part, with all kinds of attractive minimalism. It’s far better than the tiny Danish Design Center.
I hoped somebody would manage to do this already, so I’ll blog it to keep the idea out there.
As far as I know, the Nautilus maintainers would be happy to show folder contents inside spatial Nautilus windows, like the old Mac Finder in this screenshot. This would solve the many-windows problem (even with the undiscoverable shift-and-open feature) without breaking Nautilus (*cough*Ubuntu*cough*). It just needs somebody to implement it.
Update: Michael Lewandowski provided an updated MacOS X screenshot of the same thing, so I replaced the
MacOS 8 screenshot from MacTech.
I am also getting a lot of empty comments that are crashing pyblosxom on this blog entry. I’m not sure what that’s about yet – I upgraded pyblosxom from 1.1 to 1.2 yesterday. I will try to remove them when I notice it happening.
I was really pleased to get a big libsigc++ patch a few days ago from Régis Duchesne at vmware, to fix some crashes that affect a libsigc++ technique they are using. It required significant time, and a deep understanding of both libsigc++ and C++ templates in general. In mature projects, maintainers are often left to fix the difficult/not-fun stuff themselves, so it's uplifting when somebody takes some of the weight off. Thanks Régis.
I put together a more presentable/expandable web site for Glom. I used MediaWiki again, because it works so well.
As I mentioned a few days ago, there's a chance of some really cheap accommodation for GUADEC attendees.
I think lots of people want to use this, but so far only 6 of you have told us. Have all our penniless students become rich 4-star hotel types? If not, you need to tell us today. Email me, or guadec-list at gnome.org, or put your name on that Wiki page.
This is the last chance. We can't afford to waste GNOME Foundation money (or my money) by booking places that won't be used.
I started Glom's Reports feature. So far it does simple “by” reports, though I still have to add the summary (sum, average, etc) part. I'm fairly sure this is all most people need, and they can use Postgres directly if they have more advanced needs.
The appearance can be improved by changing the CSS, and/or changing the XSLT that produces the HTML.
That's probably the last big check-box feature for Glom, though I've added so much new functionality recently that there's certainly many bugs to be fixed.
But after spending four months working intensively on this, it's time I looked for more freelance work to pay the bills for a while. Of course, I'd love for some company to sponsor further work on Glom, so I can use my time sensibly.