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The GUADEC diaries — chapter 1
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So here I am, at GUADEC, the GNOME conference in the strangely “sunny” Birmingham UK. :-)
The place is packed with all sort of hackers, but mostly GNOME ones (obviously). Wherever you turn your face, you see a familiar head from planet.gnome.org and even some from planet.fedoraproject.org. I attended (all) three talks yesterday, and all of them were interesting.
After the last lecture was finished, we went with some friends for a nice dinner at a french restaurant and returned to the hotel. Entering the lobby one word came to my mind: Pandemonium. The lobby was full of people talking to each other, or hacking on their laptops. Apparently the hotel’s wifi wasn’t prepared for this usage and most people received a dreadful “connection slots are full”. And it’s still the “warmup” period of the conference. Talk about people loving what they do.
Had an hour-long interview with a researcher studying innovation in open source communities. Some questions were interesting, or at least the thinking to give an answer to them was. Of course, the classic Q came up “why do people contribute to open source”, which always makes people think hard, and I guess I gave the classic answer “for a variety of reasons, it depends on the person, but I guess it is a little bit of everything.”
Got the chance to talk with some Ubuntu maintainers about translations in Rosetta not being pushed upstream. A more in-depth discussion should take place with the Rosetta maintainers, who happens to also be here, so more news about this later on.
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νωρίς το απόγευμα, Δευτέρα 16 Ιουλίου 2007
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