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LinuxTag Saturday update
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Reporting from beautiful Berlin.
- Had the chance to discuss with a few code hackers like Harald Hoyer about features they need from Tx. Harald mentioned the need for more management interfaces for resource maintainers, like eg. administrating branches. I’m glad to say that Diego is already working on this as part of his GSoC project.
- Folks from GNOME, openSUSE, Debian and Gentoo had also a bunch of good comments and constructive criticism. There is a clear need for an open localization platform right now in the whole established FOSS projects landscape. With some help, we could get a prototype out as soon as possible.
- Thursday evening: LinuxNacht. Yup, that’s the night event where we go out and do two things: drink beer and drink beer. The reality was it also involved a lot of fun, good food and good music.
- Being one of the last people to leave the place, it wasn’t easy to wake up at 8am in order to make it to the OLPC workshop.
- Met with a couple of great folks from OLPC and discussed a couple of ideas of mine around content distribution, localization and the little laptop. I’m so happy they found them exciting enough to give me an XO to take home, hack on it and be a total showoff.
- I managed to work a bit on code and attend a few presentations on Fedora land. Listening to Max‘s talk I realized how great it would be if every project’s leaders believed so deeply in transparency as the Fedora ones do.
- One of the things I realized the past days is how much work has Novell done in the community space. There has been an amazing improvement on openness in every aspect of openSUSE lately. Respect.
- I’m attending GUADEC next month at Istanbul. Until then I’ll work on bringing Tx to shape to be used by GNOME.
I’m off to meet the CentOS folks to continue yesterday’s discussion to get them on board with Tx. It could be as simple as get their release notes reach out to more non-english users but also to consider localizing more stuff in their distro.
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noon, Σάββατο 31 Μαϊου 2008
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