My Linux.Conf.Au 2004 photos are now available...
My Linux.Conf.Au 2004 photos are now available...
Playing with orkut like everyone else. Cool stuff.
Getting sick again - trying to wrap up the budget for Linux.Conf.Au 2004, while doing Linux Australia committee things, while hacking dashboard (trying to get something ready for submission), and some python/gtk hacking for demonstration at LinuxSA next month, while trying to earn some brownie points with Susie - I owe a lot after this past year.
I need 30 hour days.
I'm the only person to have dunked Linus, and he's the only one to have dunked me :-P
See http://wiki.linux.conf.au for photos...
Ugly stuff going on with a part of the conf. Just wish requests could have been made a couple of weeks ago, not just the day before. sigh.
Started writing the conference opening last night, talking to speakers this morning lifted my spirits, many of them wrapped around too.
It's all very exciting, can't wait for this thing to start.
linux.conf.au is only a week away - everyone[1] came back from holidays today, so I didn't get many actions done. I think my list is sub-50 items, not mentioning writing the conference opening and closing. Needless to say, a few of my projects are getting neglected as a result.
Big things get announced hopefully tomorrow and Thursday. Hope embargoed press releases stay that way - don't want to scare certain people away >:->
Last conference comment for today: Go back and read our news page - I'm constantly amazed at the cool stuff that's we've organised!
planet.gnome.org got it's own URL - pretty cool. About time (although it might have been like that for a while and I didn't notice. Or something). While jdub wants to have contributed enough to get listed on planet debian I'd be happy getting listed on Planet GNOME :-) I know, I know, it's all about what you contribute... at least I have that goal going forward this year...
[1] the conference sponsors, and just about every journalist in .au *And* they *all* called my mobile today.
Strange Merchandise: Who would buy this?
The big surprise will get announced in a fortnight's time.
Registrations continue strongly - at the current rate of registrations, there's only 10-12 days or so before we sell out. So if you are planning on coming, you'd better get in quick! This is a hard-core developers conference, so if we're going to sell out I want to make sure the right sort of people are sitting on the seats.
Reading: Like most people I'm making my way through both The Art of Unix Programming and Linux Kernel Development. Both have their strengths and weaknesses - I'll add my summaries to those of mbp, joel, and everyone else soon...
Dashboard: Development continues at break-neck speed. I really like the .doc frobnicator work being done by msevior out of AbiWord. Had to stop implemeting my own ideas on dashboard right now as cvs is changing just too quickly for me to keep up. I'll start again around January 18 - once Linux.Conf.Au finishes and normal life resumes.
Runner up in the coolest thing of the week prize is expocity. This simply rocks.
And the third prize goes to... jdub for starting gnome-au-list. The amount of enthusiasm around GNOME is amazing, now if we can just harness that energy, and use it for niceness instead of evil...
The Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Hackfest was announced today. Who can built the best AI bot to play tetrinet? Should be a fun competition, and with a nice prize at the end. It's being run by cyeoh, the winner of LokiHack back in 1999.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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