LWE

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.

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.

A very busy day on LWE. Met some people to talk about the AlBooks of Apple when Mark Shuttleworth came up to the GNOME booth to talk about Ubuntu. I was talking about my XFS issues (should have been the perfect solution to address my problems) and that I'd like to have a Custom-Ubuntu-Kernel-HOWTO.

Had my talk about GNOME, I was quite happy with it as I didn't finish the talk and had almost half an hour of my time left :-). When taking back my hardware Debian's Alexander Wirth came up to me and told me that Ben Herrenschmidt released a test patch for suspend to ram (funny, haven't I been talking about a custom-kernel-howto for Ubuntu some hours before?).

Created a new custon kernel for my powerbook (which is still runnning Ubuntu). I used the standard Debian way of kernel compilation, removed the initrd stuff from yaboot.conf (this will break future Ubuntu kernels, but I don't care about them). At least suspend to ram works (including the "breathing" LED).

First day of the Linux World Expo: Frank and Christian organized the formal start of the German GNOME association called GNOME Deutschland e.V. Had a press conference about it in the afternoon, everything seemed to went all right so we can target the next formal steps.

Finished my talk for tomorrow in the evening. Have been talking to Rene Rebe (former Rock Linux developer) about kernel mouse drivers and some synaptics features. I was wondering how one can find out whether his notebook is stuffed with such a cute touchpad.

Visited the HeLaBa tower in Frankfurt to get a view almost on top of Frankfurt (there have been just a few buildings higher that the viewpoint).

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.