Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, met a friendly partner at breakfast. Taxi,
Coach, airplane etc. back to blighty.
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Published the next strip: an interview with
Dolores: community manager.
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Marketing team call, lots of good content being developed.
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Up early, breakfast with Andy & Eloy. On
to the conference - distributed ~150 beavers, lots of
stickers, guides.
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Gave an encouragingly well attended talk:
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Eloy demo'd the latest COOL goodness, more
booth duty.
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Talked to lots of people at the bar in the evening,
enjoyed some Nextcloud birthday-cake.
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Up, triaged E-mail quickly, packed, caught up
with M. drove to Stansted; flight to Memmingen, coach
to Munich.
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Pre-Nextcloud summit dinner in the evening
with Thorsten, Frank, Clement & Ludovic, and
good to catch up with lots of other people.
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Breakfast, played some guitar, gave a reflection on
pride tried to explain and apply the Pharisee and the Tax
collector from Luke 18, couple more songs, some prayer.
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Drove out to a pub, and did a circular walk around
it; dropped Chris home, caught up with J. and celebrated M.
returning home.
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Tried to find something worth watching on Disney+
without much success (somehow).
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Up reasonably early, cooked breakfast - out for a walk
from the hostel around the area, chatted to all and sundry of
this and also that; plenty of rain, mixed with sun fine scenery.
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Arrived back, caught up, out for a pub meal in the
evening; fun.
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Up too early. Dropped H. into XJTAG before her epic Asian
trip. Lovely to meet up with John Hall and catch up after a couple of
decades.
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Tried to pack, and gather together things for the Church's Men's
walking weekend.
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Published the next strip: Ejecting a do-er, "if in
doubt, kick them out!"; cancellation based on un-proven
allegation seems to be the spirit of the age:
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Collected Chris King in Lode, and off to YHA Jordans to meet
up with the rest of the lads; unpacked, Rick and Mihai made a fine
BBQ, talked, watched sport and more until late - lovely.
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Up much too early, train into London. Met up with
some interesting folk from HCL. Pod-cast recording, lunch
re-recording a second take; interesting perspectives, fun
people.
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Worked on trains home, caught up with J.
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Home group bible study on Malachi.
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Worked until almost midnight to get a response in to
the CMA
SMS investigation of Microsoft submitted in time; tiring.
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Up early, sync with Dave, unusual strategy review call
for a 3rd party - odd, sync with Thorsten, worked on stacks of admin.
TC meeting in the afternoon.
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Caught up with Philippe, worked late into the evening.
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Up early, mail chew, long planning call, quick lunch,
sync with Andras & Anna, catch up with Laser, customer sales
call.
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Caught up with Ben from Parula in the afternoon -
interesting; sync with some partners, dinner.
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Up early, mail chew, admin bits, 1:1's with Miklos, Thorsten,
marketing content catch-up, sync with Naomi, Pedro, Eloy, final attempt
to catch up with mail at the end of a day of back-to-back calls.
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All Saints, lead worship on the guitar with H,
on the piano and Mary singing; fun. Quick lunch, and
off to see a new niece Adeline, R&A and family -
lovely to spend some time with them in the sun, and
admire their new family member - lovely.
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Up early, pottered around - tried to get a varnish
match with J. for the oak floor; cleared up the garden,
more laptop backed action to wipe / re-install it for
foreign travel.
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Lunch in the garden, got misc. personal admin
handled, DBS check, driving license renewal, and more.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, then Anna & Timur.
Lunch, read around a regulatory topic. Sync with a partner.
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Spent some time moving flash backups to oxide.
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Plugged away upgrading build trees, and doing admin
in parallel.
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Out to All Saints to practice briefly.
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Mail chew; breakfast, enjoyed some Ubuntu Summit-ness
in the morning, lunch, and headed home - tubes, trains, etc.
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Published the next strip: The board doesn't seem to care!
illustrating the mis-conceptions people often have of how a committee
works, and expresses its will: subsidiarity or subsidence:
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More admin, house group in the evening.
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Enjoyed Mark's introduction, and an eclectic set of
interesting FLOSS talks at the Ubuntu Summit. Lunch with
the community team, distributed beavers, and talked to
interesting people left and right until late.
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Up early, packed, mail chew, planning call,
worked in a taxi; train to London - plugged away at
slides.
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Arrived at the very pretty Canonical office,
met up with the team and pre-recorded a Collabora
Office talk.
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Met up with a number of other speakers,
out for an Indian with Joseph of bootc.
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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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