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- “Had a marvelous time at WriteCamp Milwaukee 2 Saturday.
- Mercy Hill Church at the Hide House is a fantastic venue, which you can see for yourself in the Flickr feed. The space was broken up into five session areas: Two in the main “sanctuary†area, with plenty of separation, so no one got confused by audio bleedthrough; three smaller classrooms.
- The whole conference had a pretty analog feel to it for this techie. I brought my laptop, and lugged it around unopened pretty much all day. I confined my notes to pen and paper.”
- “I´m at Linuxtag in Berlin again this year. As every year it´s a great event, interesting people and interesting talks. Together with the fanstastic weather here in Berlin we really have a great time.
- My personal highlights of the first day are: (…)”
- “The openSUSE presence will of course be amazing: just take a look at our wiki page. Many contributors will have a talk, but we’ll also have workshops on the openSUSE booth (I recommend Robert’s Learn Inkscape Vector KungFu) and various interviews on RadioTux. And of course, you can just come to the booth to meet us: we’ll be happy to share our enthusiasm with you!
- On the GNOME side, we apparently couldn’t find enough volunteers in time to run a booth. That’s a sad news, but we’ll still have many people attending the event, and we’ll have several talks in the Desktop track on Saturday. I know I won’t miss Stormy’s one :-) (…)”
Hackweek V
- “It is Hackweek V here at Novell. And as with all good things that are supposed to start on Monday, and end on Friday, the best thing is that they can start on Friday evening and go until the night becomes a dawn on Monday morning. It is in this spririt that I started to do some preparation to the long overdue release of libwpd libwpg and all projects that are depending on these two. Already during the week-end I fixed some obvious regressions in libwpg, caused by the complete API rewrite. I added some callbacks to the libwpd’s API, so that we can try to support named styles during the 0.9.x series and will not have to break ABI too soon (libwpd 0.8.x were API stable for about 5 years). And today, I was playing with some more regressions and bugs found by sum1, the best QA person that I know. (..:)”
- “Hi developers!
- These are first hours of hackweek. A lot of people in Novell and in the community are starting to work on different projects. What can I give for free software in this week? Sure, my favorite project is NetworkManagement. (…)”
- “Hack Week 2010 — Client-side awesome
- It is Hack Week this week, when all of Novell’s hackers work on whatever project they want for the whole week.
- The infrastructure for Document-Centric GNOME is coming along just fine. The Zeitgeist hackers are kicking all sorts of ass with the engine and the activity journal — that’s what lets you see your work in a nice timeline.
- Another part of the document-centric vision is to allow comfortable flow or circulation through your files, which is sorely missing right now.”
- “This week is hackweek at SUSE. Originally I had planned to go to Linuxtag, which also is this week, but unfortunately I’m not able to follow that plan, so I’m making the best of it and take the opportunity to hack away on a project I wanted to do for a long time already: A graphical client for SUSE Studio. It’s tracked as Feature 309733 in openFATE.
- I’m not going to replicate the functionality of the web interface. This can easily be used through a browser. Maybe I will experiment with embedding a browser component, but the main focus of the client will be on those tasks which can’t be done online. This is stuff like managing downloads, running and deploying appliances locally, natively connecting to testdrive, etc. I’m sure you have more ideas. Don’t hesitate to share them with me, if you like.”
- “Hi, as hackweek continue I want to present my contribution for this year event. My plan is to support our the youngest supported desktop environment LXDE. So I contact our LXDE guy Andrea Florio and he ask lxde developers. Then we communicate directly and I found as the most intersting idea to replace gnome gvfs which is needed to have usable gio interface in glib (geek-deserialization: allow easy access remote systems, zip archives in file manager like it is part of filesystem). Motivation for replacement is quite big gvfs dependency and system resource requirements. It choose it because I can learn something new, can return to programming in C from Ruby on Rails which is used for webyast and last not least I think it is usable also for another lightweight environment xfce4. (…)”
- “Hackweek V is over and I can happily report success. My graphical SUSE Studio client is functional and has the first cool features implemented. The focus of the client is not to duplicate the functionality of the SUSE Studio web interface, but to provide those features, which are hard or not possible to do on the server. This is stuff like managing downloads, running and deploying appliances locally, or native access to testdrive. From this list I got the native testdrive done. On the click of a button, the client starts a testdrive on the SUSE Studio servers and then connects with an embedded native client. This gives great performance and a very smooth and integrated experience.”
- “Recently people played around a lot with a new kind of presentations. The pages in the classical presentation tool sense seem to lie around on a large canvas and while the presentation running, the focus moves over the canvas and stops by interesting points. Zooming allows to go more in detail and other cool graphics effects make it fun to watch these presentations.
- This week was the fifth Hackweek at Novell where we can pick an interesting topic and work on it. I am always interested in cool applications and I wanted to investigate a bit on Qts GraphicsView anyway so I decided to go for a proof of concept implementation of a lightweight but cool presentation tool following these concepts. (…)”
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