Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up earlyish, pleasant breakfast, taxi to
the conference. Shared a cab with Julian Steward of wxWindows
fame (a Brit), and the inimitable David Faure. Caught up with
the Mdk & native vs. custom widget intrigue.
- Matthew arrived and gave me a demo of dasher -
very fine, a nice piece of code it seems - much like a zoomy
video game; works quite well on the iPAQ too. Apparently,
people can get 25wpm with an eye-tracker too.
- Talked to Owen wrt. Gtk+ timescales, finished
my talk, went to hear Havoc's talk.
- Appalled to discover that Havoc / Anders
and Mattias Ettrich decided to write a new IPC system
'D-Bus', as a 'freedesktop.org standard', and made no
effort to tell me, or ask advice. Still, having spent
several years, fixing and maintaining ORBit2/bonobo/activation etc.
I guess my opinion is judged of little worth - it might,
heavens above, be critical. A fuller judgement reserved
until I've seen the 'standard specification', and the code.
This makes me more eager to work 9 -> 5, and pleased I'm
working on OO.o not Gnome.
- Spoke to a blind chap, and examined his braille
k/b. Interviewed by a sociolagist: Thomas about
'Open Source' (Free Software), some interesting things.
- Spoke to Havoc / Anders to tell them how
disappointed I was. Out to dinner, annoyed all evening -
poor Jakub, David, Geerd. Back to the hotel early, phoned
J., bed, most concentrate on doing an enthusiastic
presentation tommorrow.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
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)
