Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew, code reading, planning.
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Published the next strip on Another Election - setting up the next board:
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Planning call, admin, lunch. Marketing call,
more admin - digging into CI performance analysis.
Bought new Mac hardware & poked at some product
mgmt bits.
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Started sorting out the garage with H. and Barney
to make space, de-duplicate and more, discovered a pair of
beautiful rebating hand planes.
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Caught up with Laser in-person. Hack-week
started - always interesting to see what will come
out of that.
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Sync with Thorsten, Naomi, Pedro & Eloy.
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H.&Anne cooked in the evening. Played Catan
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All Saints with J&A, played Violin - talked
to new people , home to make pizza
with J&A. Lunch.
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Applied relaxation in the afternoon; watched
Grayhound - based on The Good Shepherd
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Prepped for family, made bread, Anne, Sue & Clive
over for a wider birthday celebration, David for lunch too.
David & E. off to help with a kids camp.
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Talked, went to walk with Truffle in the heat. Home,
tea, chatted, painted floor again before bed.
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Extremely pleasantly surprised with openSUSE 16.0 -
now my kernel schedules sensibly so a video conference can
co-exist with a massive compile set in the background without
glitching and becoming unusable - horay - like having new
hardware.
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Sync with Aron, TTT, mail, admin, catch-up. Bit of
hacking, ad-hoc calls, out for a run with J. sync with Dave.
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Chinese food with E. in the evening. Painted
J's garage shed concrete floor with H's help. J. and M. back
late having seen My Neighbour Totoro on the stage in
London.
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Tech. planning call, sync with Caolan, lunch with J.
Pleased to be mentioned
in the Irish Parliament - go Ireland!
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Really pleased to see Collabora Online 26.04 released for
customer use: the foundation of another year of development and
improvement. Thanks to our partners for supporting our
press
release, and for our customers and partners for funding much of the awesome
team that create a slew of fun
new features alongside the community.
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Collabora Quarterly management meeting interspersed by
part of a TC call, and a sync with Dave.
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Ran an upgrade to openSUSE 16.0 overnight.
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Up early, sync with Stephan, Pranam, Laser, all-hands
call, snatched lunch, Collabora quarterly mgmt meeting.
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Published the next strip: An interview with Maurice: digging
into organizations
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Pleased to see FLOSS
Weekly Episode 879: Collabora published - great to chat with Jonathan.
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More quarterly management meeting until late. Poked at a
potential child setup thread delay in COOL at the same time.
J. cleared shed and garage in the evening for final sealing coat.
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Up earlyish, celebrated J's birthday with presents, to
work while she went to Peter Beale's Rose shop with Sue next door.
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Planning call, monthly mgmt meeting, brief meeting with
potential partner. Fun FLOSS Weekly podcast with Jonathan.
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Out for dinner with J,H,E+Barney to the Three Blackbirds,
back for strawberry topped birthday cake; played games together.
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Took a day off to spend some time with J. relaxed in the
morning variously, out food shopping with J.
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Lunch with L&T in the garden, out to RAF Mildenhall
to admire a number of the 67'ths MC130-Js, CV22-B (Osprey)s,
KC-135Rs etc. up-close. Spectacular.
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Home, another coat of paint on a chunk of the garage floor.
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All Saints, violin, prayers, out to a lovely Church
Music BBQ, caught up in the sun.
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Saw Robin & Christine, home in the evening, painted
another section of garage floor - poly-u on sealed concrete.
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Lost a chunk of a day by travelling east. Arrived midday,
trains home. Caught up with lovely wife & some babes.
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Out for a walk with J, watched Silo with H, relaxed &
slept.
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Up earlyish, plugged away at press release bits.
Breakfast with the attendees, bid 'bye to many - shared
bus to SFO, plugged away at press pieces until late.
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Enjoyed starlink on the plane again; great for
productivity. Slept.
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Up earlyish, plugged away at admin, E-mail, slides.
Breakfast with a growing set of interesting people.
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Fascinating conference, learned a huge amount about
DHTs, and de-centralized systems - met some really
interesting people.
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Good set of talks, conversations, fine dining in
the evening, toasting of marshmallows - great fun.
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Up much too early got a bit of work done,
worked on train(s) to Heathrow. Virgin Atlantic -
promises StarLink - interesting.
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Published the next strip from over Greenland: public husting and private whisperings; the political arts applied. "You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you."
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Amazed to have a fast & efficient immigration
experience encouraging. To Guerneville, checked-in to the
P2P Summit found some pizza in town - lovely to be in the
USA again, plugged at slides before going to bed 'early'
(for the west coast).
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Marketing call, planning call, catch-up
with the A-team: Anna & Andras. Internal
round-table / training.
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Blissful experience of actually getting
meeting notifications with new thunderbird plugin
- wow.
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Lunch, partner payment setup call. Ben
& Myriam visited - lovely to see the whole
family. Shareholder meeting, sync with Dave.
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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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