GUADEC

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

Post-Guadec

While trying to catch up I found an email from a 16 year old kid telling me something like that "Hi, am 16 years old, I'd like to hack servers and modify the files on them; somehow I found that you're related to hacking, can you help me?"

Need to tell him that being a script-kiddie is not what he wants...

For those of you who understand German: the screenshot.

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.

criawips:

Release a first preview version of criawips after a night of hacking. Criawips is now a cute slide viewer that basically supports stretched background images and text in front of it.

Sadly, I haven't been able to create more than my private test file. But as I'm going to use criawips this weekend in Wilhelmshaven for 3 GNOME related talks, there going to be some examples in the next version, ask me directly (per mail) for a sample if you're interested.

GNOME:

Though I met David Malcom on GUADEC last year I just tested conglomerate to write a docbook file and I was really amazed. Really cool piece of software for text editing.

Life:

Had some stress this night (I was only hacking), but I really need the app to get off until the weekend for the GNOME presentations mentioned above. The weekend's promising to become a lot of fun, meeting lots of new Free Software folks, getting closer to Debian people (I still need one Debian dev to sign my gpg key...), presenting GNOME, talking to the KDE guys in front of us, (cool stuff, so much info and still no beer), and -- of course -- beeeeer. I still don't know how to fix up a slide viewer, write 3 presentations AND set up a routing machine for the weekend, but I think I'm going to figure out...