I have sadly missed this years FOSS.in. The goal of this conference is to turn India into a nation of FOSS contributors. There are plenty of people, awesome food!, there is a huge software industry, companies like Tata Consulting are even on Level 5 five of the CMMI model. This means there is a huge potential! But when I get my daily mail on webkit-dev I recognize that it is still a long way from simply consuming, to try to…
If I would be in Taipei I could ask Tick, Jeremy, Erin, Olv, Julian, John to have lunch with me and eat dumplings at one of the restaurants pretty close to the office and lie that it is my first time eating with chop sticks and that my skills are not bad for the first time…. But I’m currently not in Taipei, I have no place to get dumplings. So today was the day to make vegetarian dumplings myself. The…
Question: How to create a support nightmare?Answer: Ask users to overwrite files regardless of what version they have installed with the package manager. We have a package manager. This means that every installed binary is versioned. This means that with opkg list_installed people can find out what you have installed. Now if you leave the package manager path and randomly ask our friends to overwrite their system libraries with other things found on the net you ask for chaos, fire…
There is one thing I wanted to do for almost a year. Ever since noha started with toying with seaside I wanted to bring squeak into OpenEmbedded and last week I finally started with compiling the vm. Surprisingly it was more difficult than I thought it was and the result is not as pretty as I would like but the result is this: The recipe is inside org.openmoko.dev, I have some packages,sources and diff on my people account.
So we do have our location/diversity/splinter mapping application. Some of the maps (all?) we provide use data coming from OpenStreetMap. The OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (CC-by-SA). And it was highlighted that we most likely fail on the attribution part. I hope we will resolve this issue soon but it is not really clear how one should properly attribute the OpenStreetMap Project and or its individual contributors.
Yesterday I spend most my day with watching videos that featured Alan Kay. These included videos about Squeak, Seaside, Croquet, demos of old (1977!) 3d, fully anti-aliased, zooming interfaces of the MIT. This was concluded with reading about self and PEP. When watching these kind of things I wonder why the computing world as it is today and why all these things have not made it into mainstream computing yet. I will soon enter a train to Frankfurt, will arrive…
Our Taipei developers work hard, apply patches, create patches, triage bugs. Our developer/customer base starts scratching itches and provide their fixes. Things move forward.
What an exhausting day. It started nicely with watching “A hitchhiker guide to galaxy” and finally “Brazil” (I wonder how the two Central Services employees map to our admins and if they will have the same faith…). Then a short nap was taken, some breakfast and the journey began. The mission was to drive a 1984 mexico beetle, with none working flash lights and probably non charging battery, from Berlin to Eindhoven. Surprisingly nothing went wrong with the car, the…
So what should one do on 08.08.08? Get married? Get divorced? Or the thousands of things in between? Openmoko picked this day to release the 2008.8 software update (code named A(pril|ugust)SU) and I will travel to Mechelen to catch up with some friends from foreign countries. Let us take a small look at the release. Doing this in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Queen) style. But keep in mind Bad and Ugly are only there to be fixed,…
Openmoko dropped Gtk+? I hear a lot of people saying Openmoko dropped Gtk+ or that ASU will forbid to run their favorite Gtk+ or other X11 apps. So let us take a look. The facts are that the ASU image has gtk+ installed, we even have a GPE application (gpe-scap) in the image, we have the OM2007.2 theme installed, we start the matchbox settings daemon so that Gtk+ application pick up the theme, fonts and sizes as used to from…