Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, sync with Dave. Eye test at some
length: all good. Sync with Mike, design call with
the team. Popped into the sale call.
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Published the next strip on why doing something now
generally beats doing something wonderful later:
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Train to London for partner meeting, dinner,
back by train extremely late.
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Up early mail, planning call. Sync with Laser,
FOSDEM retrospective - improvements for next time.
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Lunch, sync with Andras & Anna, screenshare
with Miklos, poked at orginal-suffix auto-superscripting
leaking over newlines somehow.
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Chewed back through post-FOSDEM mail and actions.
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Up early, breakfast with the family, mail chew,
bid 'bye to Anne. Staff & partner calls all day.
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H. cooked a fine dinner, back to work.
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All Saints in the morning with N. singing, lovely.
Caught up with people afterwards.
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Back to see Anne, S&C, A&J arrived - and
out for a rather fancy afternoon tea at the Bedford Lodge
to celebrate Anne's 90'th - fun.
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Relaxed in the evening - watched Second Hand
Lions together, great speech.
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Up late, unpacked, cleaned, got through some admin.
Caught up with a bit of E-mail, H. & N. back from skiing
lovely to see them again.
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At some stage it turned into the next day,
arrived at Frankfurt, then Köln, then Brussels.
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Mixed sleeping on trains, and working in the
cold between them. People complain of the DB wifi -
but it seems great to me, I'd be more interested
in curing the absence of warm waiting rooms at
train stations.
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J. picked me up from Cambridge (with E.) -
finally home good to sleep in a real bed.
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Off to the recording venue on the S-bahn in the
snow: romantic and crisp looking at one level - with very
nicely swept pavements.
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Caught up with the team, recorded tid-bits around
the forthcoming Collabora Online release - fun.
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Set off for home, queued at the airport interminably
only to find the plane cancelled - snow not so cute. Planned
a marathon series of train connections to get home instead,
and set out.
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Enjoyed DB's surprisingly good wifi on their high
speed train to catch up with work overnight.
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Up too early, flight to Berlin. Practiced briefly
for the Nextcloud Hub Winter 2026 announcement video
pieces with Jos & team, feeling rather groggy.
Bed earlyish.
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Published the next strip on the risks of thinking
too big:
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More hack-fest-age, gave updates on what people
had worked on. Started fond farewells to people. Out to
stock up on meds for the team for post-fosdem illness.
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Dug more through admin backlog, so many good
things going on. Dinner with Tor, Fridrich. Evening
drinks with Laszlo.
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Hack-fest much of the day, great to see new people
coming along with ideas and eagerness to hack on things;
dug out some code pointers to help.
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Spent some time planning interactions with Stephan
for on/off-line editing. Out for lunch together, and back
to some hackery and admin catch-up from travel, and seeing
what other people are up-to.
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Dinner on the eighth floor with the hack-festers.
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Up too early, breakfast & off to FOSDEM with
another large batch of beavers. Wandered the streets
chatting to old friends and distributing branded goodness.
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Enjoyed Michael Stahl's (too) short talk on the
trials of using CRDTs for peer-to-peer live comment editing.
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Out for a nice Collabora Office dinner with team +
some friends.
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Breakfast with some of the team. Taxi to the venue
laden with beavers. Distributed these to various hard-working
people.
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Gave a talk scraping the surface of why writing your
own office suite from scratch is really foolish, although
an increasingly popular folly these days video:
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Distributed a hundred beavers or so.
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More wandering, grabbed some lunch, gave a talk with Stephan on
on&off collaborative editing:
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Out to the XWIKI drinks party & dinner in the evening.
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OpenForum Europe's EU Open Source Policy Summit.
Good to hear Dirk Schrödter promote FLOSS with quotes from Hayek & Schumpeter - useful to add that perspective.
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On to the FLOSS Foundations dinner in the evening.
Back early to write slides until the early morning.
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Up early, trains to Brussels. Worked on slides
on the way, arrived, dressed-up, enjoyed the Open
Source Awards.
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Sync with Dave, technical call, sync with Stephan.
ISO 14k1 - Environmental certification training.
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Published the next strip on the trials of managing
an organization's staff
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Slides, loong sales team call, sync with Philippe;
printed lots of FOSDEM travel bits: exciting.
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Planning call. Upgraded laptop, test rebooting for
FOSDEM travel. Sync with Anna & Andras.
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Compliance training to maintain ISO 9001 certification.
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Worked on slides much of the day.
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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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