Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit
Collabora
Productivity a subsidiary of Collabora focusing on LibreOffice support and
services for whom I work.
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yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
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Mail, admin, deeper copy-paste training &
discussion with Miklos and the QA team for special focus -
there is a thousands-wide potential test matrix there.
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Sync with Italo on marketing, lunch, catch up
with Pedro.
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Published the next strip on the joy of win-wins, and
mutual benefits:
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Plugged away at the Product Management backlog.
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Up early; train to the airport, software
failure causing massive queues, fun.
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Some coding on the plane, back after lunch,
call with Dave, got some hacking done - got my Proxy
Protocol unit test finished.
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Lovely to see the family again.
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To the venue; brainstorming how to improve,
more 1:1 chats with people. Lunch with the Office
team, more conversations.
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Bid 'bye to everyone, and off for dinner
with Frank and the openDesk team, kindly hosted
by B1, great to see them all & see Lily.
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Enjoyed Monty's talk in the morning, lots of
other talks & conversations with friends old &
new, dinner with Philippe & team nearby.
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Up early, to the bUm venue, briefed by Maria on
Hub 25 Autumn announcement, lots of friends and colleagues
arrived from left & right.
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Took part in the announcement, enjoyed lots of
conversations, gave a lighting talk, pizza in the evening,
chatted with people, late drinks with my team at the hotel.
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Up early, bid 'bye to E. and H. and J.
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Sync with Dave, admin, drove, plane to
Berlin.
Hacked on richdocuments code Proxy issues
on the plane, and until rather late at night with
Rash's help - fixed several rather annoying
short-read/write issues.
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Up early, mail, tech-planning call, tested latest CODE
on share left & right. Lunch.
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Published the next strip: on the excitement of delivering
against a tender:
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Sync with Lily.
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Collabora Productivity is looking to hire a(nother) Open Source clueful
UX
Designer to further accelerate our UX research and improvements. Some
recent examples of the big wins there.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, catch up with Aron,
admin, lunch. All-hands meeting, sales call, visited
the Dentist.
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Up early, mail chew, planning call, quick UX stand-up.
Monthly management meeting.
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Tested software left & right call with Anna &
Joao & Caolan.
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Partner call in the evening. Worked on a Cooper's
Triangle trivet with H. in the garage - lots of band-sawing.
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Up early, bid 'bye to H. - off to her new job at
XJTAG.
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Mail chew, sync with Laser, catch up with Miklos,
then Thorsten & Oliver, UX stand-up, snatched some
lunch.
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Marketing contente review, sync with Naomi, then
Eloy, poked at some code, TDF board meeting.
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Worked late, while H. tutored E. at maths. Watched
home-made videos with the babes.
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Up early, played violin with H. at AllSaints; home
for pizza lunch with Amy-Jane & Julie.
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Slept through some parts of the afternoon-exhaustedly.
Watched TV.
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Up earlyish, some E-mail. J. drove to B&A's with H.
and myself. Set to polishing a brass door-stop.
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Out to lunch in Aldeburgh, back to try to diagnose a
couple of plumbing problems - with a grim stuck tap (apparently
an all-in-one casting, with un-serviceable taps), and an
inadequately flushing toilet cistern - accessed through a
tiny hole; had a go...
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Tea, drove home, dinner with E. mail chew, bug comments,
re-worked a pending Admin / setup diagnosis improvement patch
for COOL to clean it up.
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Sync with Dave & brainstorming in the morning,
catch up with Lily, lunch, sync with Gabiel, admin,
long overdue catch-up with a friend.
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David Mansergh over for tea, H. diagnosed the problem
with our sofa, created a fix for it, and some apple turn-overs
for tea; enjoyed our time together.
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Up early, tech planning call, admin, lunch with Julia.
Partner call, dug through bugs and patches, UX/Design stand-up.
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H. back from Italy, lovely to see her again.
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Up early, good breakfast. Off to the venue, day
of catch-up chats, product management bits, video
recording, and more; fun.
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Published the next strip: on the joys of deciding whom to
contract in a tender
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Flight back; RyanAir: pay for extra leg-room, get a
different plane, and crushed into a tiny slot instead; tried
to work.
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Up much too early, drove to Stansted, flight to
Berlin, planning and hacking on the plane.
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Arrived at the CIC centre, moved from the
Drivery; prepped slides and practiced much of the day,
caught up with the team happily.
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Out in the evening for dinner with Jan &
Fabian, good Mexican food, and good company.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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