Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early, off to the Javits for a Sun
breakfast, lots of people already there. Michael
Tieman show-casing a Patriotic ethnocentrism:
the US is an ideal democracy => there can only be
two parties in a perfect democracy => there can
only be two Linux distributions => this is amazing.
- Met Daniel Ravicher, a man of incredible
patience - clearly to be able to do pro-bonob work
for the FSF. Marveled at Bradley's blatant begging.
- Talked with Robert O'Dear afterwards,
good chap, and Curtis, poked at the latest Sun
hardware / sw. on show - nice. To the speakers'
room, back to talk-writing. With ThomasVS's help
got gstreamer thumbnailing working (where
xine/totem refused to work). Committed the
gnopernics fixes.
- Spoke to Phil Schwan - about Joe and
Jacob. Managed to print the talk out - after several
false starts - tragically using MS Word. By this
time (3pm) MBE had shut, so scrounged the Media room
photocopier for 25 minutes of hand stapling / copying
action.
- Setup / spoke, demos worked fairly well
except gok seems to stop the WM doing window dragging
(somehow) - and stuff gets hidden under the magnifier
in a painful way.
- The slides can be found www and tar.gz
there [ mgp mangled them in a rather unpleasant, and unfixable way it
seems - the moral: use OO.o ].
- Met Quentin of AT&T fame afterwards,
nice chap indeed, good to see him here. Walked back
to the hotel with some chap writing the semantic web -
doing natural language stuff in the abstract,
academically.
- Talked to Charlie for a while - interesting
chap, then off to a local steak house with the lads, steak,
talked to Louis for a while, bed.
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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)
