Events

I'm leaving to Hamburg today to spend the next week at Hanover. Linux New Media was so kind to offer a booth to the German GNOME community. Josh will also be there the whole time, MacSlow and maybe others will join us for the weekend.

So, I haven't been blogging for quite some time. And I actually have to good excuses for that: I have been really busy during the last weeks (ImendioConf took place in the beginning of November; Linux World Expo in Cologne the week after) and my server has been down for 2 weeks (I'm sorry).

But now things are getting back up again (at least most of the SVN trees and web sites are) and I can catch up with some things.

I have been attending my fourth GUADEC this year. As always, it's been a really great time with you guys. I have been doing some really nice hacks (to be talked about later) and you brought up several interesting ideas.

TabletPC rotation

Right now, I'm packing the last stuff into the car, then I'm going to leave for the IT's largest trade show in the world.

And as with all the important IT events, GNOME will be present there too. So if you're visiting Hannover these days, visit us in hall 5 booth F56.

The 21C3 (27. to 29.12.; also known as THE european hacker conference) is coming closer. There are still lots of things to do for me, fixing up my abstract and a short summary (I'm going to have a GNOME hacking talk there).

Jan was so kind to send a reminder to the German GNOME hackers to invite them to form some GNOME hacking corner in Berlin. If other people are interested please contact me to improve out favorite desktop during these days. People who will be there are Matthias (author of the GNOME Development Book pulished this year) lots of other cool hackers, and me.

Had a quite relaxing day at the LWE.

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Have been travelling from Frankfurt to Dresden (linux info days this weekend). The travel using the ICE train went very fine. After about 2:50 hours we arrived Naumburg (the last but one stop for me) in time. Leaving Naumburg and travelling for about 10more minutes the locomotive got damaged, we stopped for about 25 minutes an then continued our way to Leipzig which we arrived 45min late. My connecting train was already waiting 35min when it left Leipzig towards Dresden. I arrived 30min late, lost my way in Dresden, arrived at a friend and went to bed.

Have been travelling to the Linux World Expo to Frankfurt. I wonder that the Deutsche Bahn happens to organise some trains in a way that you enter the train and reach your destination in time. Almost finished my talk for Wednesday evening.

GNOME

Have been visiting GUADEC this week and Linuxtag before.

Linuxtag has been a very good experience this year. We got well supported by HP and I met lots of interesting people.

GVADEC was great too. It seems to be a bit more chaotic than last year, and I felt like there were less technical talks than last year, but these facts just pushed me into the hackers room where I could resume my work on Criawips.

Todo: Still need to register a GNOME booth for the LWE this October.

Criawips

Well, had a good hacking week. The application is well progressing and I'm currently working on displaying slides within a main window.

Todo: Need to find someone to buy www.criawips.org and someone to get that page hosted as well as a third one to design a web site and application icon and a fouth one to build up a website. Volunteers?

Real Life

Wow, real life can be so relaxing. When I reached $HOME Thursday around 11:15 PM I watched the rest of the semi finals, prepared some pizza, ate some and went to the Knype (which is the pary room of our students dormitory) to have some beer and chat with non-geeky people.

Just finished releasing criawips 0.0.2. It's quite usable now. Has three GNOME related talks at GNU/Linux Infotage Wilhelmshaven, there were just a few people visiting this event, but we had a lot of great feedback at the GNOME booth.