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Poked mail; Interested to read Brian's latest TDF
entry. Unfortunately the fairly positive, accurate, firm but friendly
approach of TDF is undermined by a few well-intentioned but un-restrained
guys. One of these is Keith Curtis.
Sometimes he makes some good points,
and it can be good for the debate for them to be heard and addressed, indeed
that is to be encouraged. Yet as a fully self-appointed 'un-official
spokesman' he in no way speaks for TDF, or indeed for anyone
but himself. Anyhow, I have been personally embarassed by his un-asked-for
intervention in the recent past, heckling a (hard working) papers
committee (apparently) on my behalf; disappointing. Having said
that, he is a nice guy; clearly annoyed by the ASF action, that
much is obvious - plenty of people are, but let no-one think that
his articulation of that reflects TDF's views generally.
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More mail digging; back to more gtk3 work, I suppose one nice
side-effect of the cairo-context being passed to the Draw method, is
making it suitably hard to app-driven rendering - ie. the app can't
spontaneously decide to re-render a certain piece of the screen and
just draw there: it has to queue a re-draw of it (which is cleaner
of course) and respond to that. Hopefully that fits the VCL model,
lets see.
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Off to the dentist to check the teeth - apparently they are all
still there (encouraging). Into town to post a laptop back to South
Korea; train to Cambridge. Met up with the Gnome Contacts hack-fest
guys - good to catch up with the assembled heroic hackers. Fine
South Korean dinner, back late.
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
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Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
