Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, catch-up call with Dave. Content marketing
call with Richard & Chris, grabbed some lunch. Monthly
Management meeting.
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Published the next strip: Mentoring – on encouraging volunteers
with with thanks to Adrian Plass
for his winsome humor.
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Out to Addenbrooks for a brief appointment, back more
attempts at admin catch-up.
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Dragged self from bed after too few hours sleep,
packed quickly, taxi, early train to Geneva, flight to
Luton, drove home.
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Arrived in time for some partner (and other) calls;
fun. Started working back through un-handled E-mail, didn't get
very far. Travelling is dangerous for your mail backlog.
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Up too early, breakfast, to the venue for the
first Nextcloud Swiss Enterprise Day - great to see lots
of interested people getting involved.
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Distributed lots of stickers, quick-start guides,
hard-working beaver mascots, tips and tricks etc. Gave a
well attended talk on Nextcloud Office / Collabora Online.
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More discussion in the afternoon, snacks. Out to
dinner with the team.
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Arrived back late - say 23:10 to the hotel La
Pergola (one to avoid) - no-one there: amazing. Phoned
the number with a dying phone - no response, no way to get
in. H. helped find a nearby Ibis Styles - very friendly and
helpful: stay there instead - they have this scheme of having
someone always there. Charged phone, got warmer, continued
to try to find someone, anyone that could do anything - no
response. Walked back to the hotel, finally got hold of
someone on the listed number - they couldn't tell me the #
Mercifully only raining, not snowing but ... just a horrible
experience. Eventually rescued by a 1am returnee who knew
the magic four digit code to get in - what a dire hotel.
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Up earlyish, packed, drove to Luton, plane to
Geneva, train to Bern. Nostalgically admired the site of
an early LibreOffice conference there and view of Bern.
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Hotel, kebab, sermon, bed early.
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Took the day off, pottered around the garage
and managed to make significant progress. Bits of
clean concrete floor now visible. Arranged where
various machine tools should go, dunged out junk.
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Relaxed with J. and watched Apollo 13 in the
evening.
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Sync with Dave, admin backlog, sync with Laser,
catch up with Eloy.
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Some amount of furtive hacking:
re-worked the network latency simulation to move it to JS
and focus on the websocket - much simpler & cleaner.
Fixed a 26.04 background save regression caused by the new
BufferedDecompositionFlusher thread not shutting down nicely.
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Technical team catch-up call, two back to back
customer sales calls.
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Lunch, catch up with Lily, went over product
management input and deeper planning but got distracted
by some fun hacking instead - too good. Dropped the unused
engine presenter console, saving a chunk of config settings.
Rendered some blank page content as a pre-tile placeholder
for slower systems.
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Up for an early call with Nina & Eloy.
Sync with Dave.
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Published the next strip: Conflicts of interest –
"no do-ers, no conflicts ?"
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Interesting call with a potential UK partner. Brief chat
with sales, CO/TC meeting, sync with Philippe.
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Dinner, band practice in the evening.
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Up early, mail chew, bid 'bye to family. Planning call
until lunch.
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Amazed that a metric compatible font: Carlito has such
dramatic
regressions in its metric compatibility - strange.
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Plugged at admin backlog, communication pieces, planned
next legs of travel with Laser, partner call, and worked through
some of the E-mail backlog.
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A day off - about time. Early partner call.
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Helped J. put up stainless wire for rose
training in the garden. Plugged away at garage tidying
with more good progress.
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Lunch with the family outside in the sun; tidied my
office for the first time in a while; got the ladder moved
into J's garden shed.
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Made a wooden spatula with H. in the evening,
turning plus band-sawing action; fun. Left it in tung-oil
overnight.
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Up earlyish, lead worship at All Saints; home for
chicken ceaser salad with the family. Snoozed on the sofa.
Lead the evening service too - good talk from Jerry with
H. and M. relaxed.
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Breakfast with the kids & send them on their way.
Up & dressed, pottered around tidying up. Caught up with J.
somewhat.
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Anne arrived for lunch in the garden sun. Snoozed a
bit, David arrived later - caught up & then set-too clearing
and re-arranging things in the garage: great progress.
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Roast dinner together, talked for a bit; tired.
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Up earlyish, packed, checked-out, breakast. Relaxed and
chatted with a group of staff, walk + train to the airport with
Tracie & Julie, eventual flight to Stansted; taxi home.
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Lovely to be home finally; Watoto children's choir
visiting - hosting three.
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Dragged myself from bed; quick breakfast. Arrived at
the venue - Thorsten had miraculously provided the right volume
of Lego sets just in time.
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Summary, lots of good questions, Lego / team-building
race went well, lunch, prizes, brain-storming break-outs, caught
the start of the parent company's all-hands during team meetings.
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More discussion, anonymous questions, feedback from
managers; left the building for a fine walking tour of Hamburg
together.
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Dinner & drinks until late, back to the hotel -
sleep.
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Up early, to the venue, enjoyed a number of panels,
and talks - particularly the initial
component overviews caught up with a number of partners
and customers.
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Gave a couple of talks on Rash's AI work - and
also The making of TORF - fun.
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Amazing culinary tour at the Minatur Wunderland,
and bid bye to many friends, partners, customers old and new.
Back to the hotel rather late.
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Worked on team day slides until around 2am.
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Up early, worked on slides, quick walk to the conference.
Caught up with people, gave the keynote, enjoyed some more talks.
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Partner workshop started, lots of people eager to get to
ranking features & helping to drive our next year's roadmap,
gave something of a corporate update too, and got some great
feature input.
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Lunch, totted up stickers, hands, and built graphs to
feed-back to partners and customers; Anna gave an update on
support, tickets etc. partners introduced each other. Great to
be able to announce BITV accessibility certification of
COOL/writer from Twin Cubes.
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Out to Das Feuerchiff for a meal, a short talk, drinks,
some dancing, and talked late into the evening; walked back to
the hotel.
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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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