Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Catch up with Miklos, partner call, COOL community call bits,
call with Philippe & an old friend.
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Today Collabora's app-store experiment with LibreOffice Vanilla
was ended. In time we will write up and publish the data more widely,
make final donations to TDF and as/when sensible finish up some Mac work
in due course. Many thanks to all those who
worked
hard over the years to get LibreOffice into many app-stores - you rock.
Of course - you can still get Collabora
Office for your Mac, and help to support FOSS development that way.
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Slide work with Eloy much of the morning.
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Really pleased to see so much work from the team, and
the wider community released as Collabora
Online 22.05 - a first cut of our next round of development
work around the next-generation Collabora Online - quicker,
slicker, better, prettier and more.
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Partner Council - really good to catch up with and
get feedback from our partners -
companies making awesome things happen in the world of FLOSS.
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Community & partner call later. Sync with Miklos.
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Band practice early with H. in the evening, Beckie's
birthday.
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Mail, team testing session; marketing review,
Partner Council slide review late in the evening.
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Mail chew, new-look, quicker planning call; missed Gokay.
Patch review, dentist appointment & then TDF board call -
the Dentist was fun - a new chap.
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All Saints, played with the band. Home for a pizza lunch.
Read to the babes a bit, Chris, Leanna & Annabelle over to
see us for a bit and borrow some tools. Enjoyed the sun together.
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Up lateish; pottered around - strimmed some things with
birthday present. David over for lunch, relaxed for a bit,
sawed bits off door corners so they opened more fully &
safely & painted them up.
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Mail chew, tried to catch up ineffectively with the backlog.
Went to see M. at her Prom - looking lovely, and smiley in a pretty
yellow dress from Amelia. Natchos for diner, hunted for H. at a
choice of railway stations. Collected M. from a sleep-over via
McDonalds, bed too late.
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Up early, breakfast, took babes to school; worked
around the breakfast table happily. Took Eloy, Miklos &
Andras to Stansted.
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Mail chew; caught up with family.
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Up early; took babes to school; into Cambridge.
More meeting action, catch-up with Caolan over lunch.
Lots more working through of topics, round-up. Back to
Newmarket for a dinner at Unico, slugged in the evening
together variously.
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Into Cambridge to the office for meetings for
much of the day - lovely to have an in-person meet
again. Chewed over the strategic issues together,
lunch & back to work.
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Out for a wander through Cambridge, punting,
fine steak dinner (met Tashie), drove home via the
office. Up late.
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Mail chew, catch-up with admin & slide prep.
M. home - getting to the end of exams. Out shopping with
Eloy to stock up for the team's arrival.
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Caught up with Eloy in the garden, BBQ, picked
up Miklos & Andras together from Stansted. Kendy
arrived late.
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Up early, into town, breakfast in the castle court, enjoyed
choir practice and some quiet prayer in the Cathedral. Off to see H.
before heading to Kings Church Durham
having a baptism service in the student union for one of H's friends.
Lovely service.
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Lugged more baggage to the car, lunch at Hatfield, met
with Elize. Bid a fond 'bye to H. drove to my parents. Lovely tea,
cake, presents, swinging seat construction, too short: drove home.
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Met up with the babes & Eloy.
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Into Durham, via Tesco for breakfast: amazed to see a
Deliveroo chap (presumably) delivering Tesco cafe breakfasts.
Got some picnic food. Off to see H.
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Had a very lovely time catching up with Mark Miller
at the Whitechurch pub; a ~twenty year gap gives a lot to catch
up on.
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On to Wharton Park to meet up with Chris & Joy, S&E.
enjoyed some fine views, good company, a birthday picnic. Wandered
back to H's room, did some work with her before heading to Newcastle
for a lovely dinner & catch-up with them. An encouraging branch
of the wider family.
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Caught up with R&A&boys in the morning, got R'
setup to work. Quick packing and set off to Ilkley with J. for
a birthday/20th' anniversary trip: fun. Caught up with Auntie
Nicky, on to Durham. Met up with H. lovely to see her - out
for some Thai food.
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To the hotel, enjoyed the nearby pool / spa.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, plugged away
at bug-fixing a particularly nasty delta related race around
versioning tiles, cancellation and more - finally nailed it.
Catch up with Andras, caught the end of the ESC.
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Rob & Amelia arrived with the boys after dinner.
Caught up with them happily.
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Sales call with Eloy, helped David S move some giant perlings
for his attic conversion with some friends. Finished the sales call.
Catch-up with Frank & Gokay.
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Worked on some delta cache management pieces - cutting down
the number of FIXMEs that are left and scaling the delta cache with
the user count in a document.
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E's birthday - presents at breakfast. Mail chew;
1:1 with Kendy, planned in-person mgmt meeting, updated
projections. Booked hotel room.
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Mail chew, planning call, marketing catch-up, partner
call. Dinner. Minuted a busy PCC meeting in the evening.
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Up, brief scripture & reflection from David, sung a song,
drove to Dedham for a fine walk in the forest. Enjoyed lunch together,
and David McGrath kindly drove me & Simon back.
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Lovely to see the family again; tea with David in the garden;
watched the end of a movie, bed early.
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Up earlyish, English Breakfast at the quay, caught a small
ferry across the river stour, and walked for some hours around a
rather fine piece of English countryside. Lunch watching a view
over the river, lots of interesting conversation - back to base.
Out for a Turkish dinner.
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Packed for the mens walking weekend.
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As TDF changes its approach
to app-store packaging I thought it would be worth
taking some time to look back and try to thank everyone that has
done such excellent
work over the years. I hope I didn't miss anyone - though of
course I have several Linux packaging heros that are (arguably)
not per-se app-store packagers I had to miss out: Rene, Petr,
Fridrich and no doubt more.
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David picked me up, collected Simon N too, off to Harwich to
stay in an old fire-station with Men of Faith from All Saints.
Chatted happily, enjoyed Beckie's cake, walked along the shore,
fish & chip supper; up late.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call. Lunch,
ESC call. Took M. to the doctor's.
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Chased a nasty delta crasher - obviously each tile
could only be compressed / delta'd once - it would be
madness to have the same tile listed twice. Except - we do
sometimes: added lots of assertions; fixed that. Lovely
Ubisan stack trace dumping fixage from Andras pointed at
exactly the problem immediately - lovely. Faster, and
better too.
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Dropped babes to school, mail chew, sales call with Eloy,
debugged a few more issues with 22.05 while editing.
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Helped M. with some physics, abortive band-practice: not
here at the weekend, worked late. Poked at Ubisan to find out how
to encourage it to print traces more reliably on detected badness.
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Planning call; mail chew - got my blog re-located
finally to
https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael after
something of a hiatus caused by the demise of
people.gnome.org - that lets me continue to be
a dinosaur and generate RSS manually and so on.
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Why is it always at the very end of the day, when I
need to quit and emerge from my lair - that I'm most productive:
in the 'stolen time' from my family? Perhaps this is the secret
sauce behind the four day week ?
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Thought this was a bank holiday, but apparently wrong.
Posted things, returned a substantial wrecking bar of the wrong
length. Collected medicine for M.
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Played at Barry Bushel's funeral & caught up with
friends & family afterwards.
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Home, chat with Kendy. Finally managed to catch the
focus loss bug on save that drives me up the wall in 22.05.
Mail chew.
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All Saints in the morning; Mary Rogers home for lunch, back
in the afternoon for a Jubliee celebration - talked to lots of
interesting people popping past by the church until late
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Watched Jack Ryan with the babes bed early.
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Up late, scraped back & painted some windows with J.
The profound annoyance of wooden windows! prolly need to turn them
to plastic with wood-hardener over time or something.
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Watched Passengers with the babes, implemented some
bandwidth measurement for the deltas work in the evening - encouraging
improvements for cool 22.05.
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Mail chew, admin. Sue & Clive over in the afternoon,
lovely to catch up with them. Lazed in the garden together for a
while before playing games indoors together.
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Caught up with Miklos, COOL community call, misc.
meetings in the afternoon. Catch-up with Philippe.
Fun catch-up with Sean in the evening interrupted by a
Kebab delivery - reading LOTR together in the evenings.
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Sales & Marketing call with Eloy. Some user feedback
& Product Mgmt ranking pieces.
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
