Fri, 12 May 2006
Arrived at DebConf a couple of days ago...
... things I learned so far:
.- Either the air is quite thin here or I'm realy out of training
- Mexican insect bites aren't as bad as finish ones
- You can do stuff without having net
- A DebConf where everything works out of the box from day one would be realy boring
- Sleeping at seven millione degrees celsius is not an easy task
- My tongue isn't broken enough to spell
gracias!
correctly - There are animals making noises which some times are quite painfull in my ears
- Mexican food tastes good
- The 10m diving plattform is higher than the palm trees
- Jogging through early in the morning through a nearly empty hotel area has something... uhm... realy strange
- Watermelon with chili is even stranger
- Kolibris are interesting to watch
- Keycards don't like human sweat
- Sprinklers are nice to walk through; they should run more often
- Walkie talkies are a nice thing to play with ;)
Oh, and I still need to write the report from the Desktop Architects Meeting earlier that week...
postet at 18:50 into [Debian/events/DebConf-6] permanent link
Mon, 08 May 2006
[OSDL-DAM-II] In case you wonder:
The last blogs came via a borrowed network cable. Two cables for a room of
sixteen. That's the portland group
.
postet at 16:18 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link
[OSDL-DAM-II] Note to myself:
Never be trustfull and think that wireless will work!
Now we splitted in smaller groups and could have normal no wireless lan, if I had a cable! Which I didn't brought, since I thought, that surely in big company like IBM (hosting OSDL's DAM-2 meeting) they will have working wireless...
postet at 15:52 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link
[OSDL-DAM-II] Topics covered here...
Currently me mostly concentrate on the following topics:
- Portland Project (xdg-utils)
- Sound / Multimedia
- Desktop Standards (LSB)
- SODA arch (just showed by Tom Schwaller, some kind of
back to the roots
componized application idea) - build once / installation / sytem management / etc. (independent Software vendors want something like autopackage, but it should work...)
- printing
PS: I would like to add, that I'm not flooding planet again; but the wireless lan broke down, so you'll get severall of my blogs at the same time; I'm taking notes through this and thought they might be interesting for someone.
postet at 15:10 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link
[OSDL-DAM-II] Just came back from lunch
Now listening a bit about Waldo Bastians talk about Portland
.
Interesting stuff, didn't knew something like that was planed. Other topics
discussed here: Printing, Wireless, Sound and Multimedia and Desktop Standards.
Other topic mentioned: Non distributable firmwares. I thought till now, that's mainly a problem Debian is interested in. Most common solution: Distribute that and wait for lawyers to come :(
Well, at least we could find some additional power bars.
postet at 13:07 into [Debian/events/DAM-II] permanent link