Vandaag organiseerde Proxy het “Proxy Open”, een kartevenement bij Raceplanet in het mooie Delft. Raceplanet heeft een erg mooi parcours in Delft, namelijk 2 banen die verdeelt zijn over maar liefst 4 verdiepingen!
Proxy organiseerde dit evenement voor professionals die werken met Open Source en Open Standaarden, een nogal nobele zaak. Laten we het erop houden dat het goed geregeld was en bovendien ook erg gezellig. Er werd behoorlijk wat rubber verbrandt en het blijkt dat de Open Source mannen toch best wel een zware voet hebben, wanneer ze een voertuig besturen 
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Last saturday I visited the cebit again. I go there almost every year (I try to). This year it was a bit smaller than the year before. Not all of the exhibition rooms were completely filled, but it was extremely crowded nevertheless. At the end of the day my feet hurt and I had a memory card full of nice memories. I will share some of them with you:
The good:
- New toys / previews
- IBM sphere (extremely cool)
- Open Source was also represented (even if it was not a huge part of CeBIT)
- Ubuntu-DE stand
- Free/clean toilets and the parking
The bad:
- The weather, it rained a lot and I missed the sunshine.
- Ugly toys like the Hummer housing
- I was only one day at the CeBIT
The ugly:
- Extremely crowded ( a lot of children )
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Some of you might have noticed and probably a lot of you did not. This morning at 00:31:30 (Netherlands, GMT+1) the Epoch time was: 1234567890. There were a few people on IRC who were still awake at that time, so enjoy the screenshot.
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A bi-monthly meeting between LoCos should be a great addition to the teamreports and should stimulate collaboration between the LoCo’s. I also attended a session about laptop keypresses, which was really interesting. The group photo was taken and the launchpad translations will change a bit. Apport rocks and should be used even more (apparently only 10% of the bugs are reported with apport). At the end of the day I went to “Ubuntu All-Stars” and it rocked. That’s about it, the UDS is over and I’ll go home soon, but not yet
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The end of yet another fine day at the UDS. Some things that were discussed today:
- Put best practices of the LoCo’s on the wiki (LoCo’s seem important)
- Debugging techniques (the 7 step program)
- The plumbing layer (kernel, udev, devicekit)
- *-jams rock! (we have to add translation- and documentation-jams)
You might notice that my posts get shorter as the UDS progresses…. I wonder why that is….
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At the community track we talked about burn-outs, they happen too often and we have to look out for eachother. What do we find fun about Ubuntu: people, technology, choice, helping others, the mission. What we dislike: bureaucracy, secrecy.
There was a nice review of the current governance, who do what they supposed to do, a great talk about the upcoming ext4 and the new user interface design team was announced.
In the evening, we went to the Museum of Computer History, which was just a 25 minute walk away. A healthy pre-dinner walk.
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So, it’s Tuesday and the UDS continous. Facts of the day: the ubuntu server community is mostly active on IRC and they have a blog to make them more visible for non-IRC people, Ubuntu developers rock and compiler flags are important. I also followed a quite long sessions about making LoCo teams rock. A few things you can do to make your LoCo rock are: regular events, publicize what you are doing, meetings, install fests / release parties, keysigning and social events.
After the long day we kicked back with Ubuntu unplugged and I enjoyed a nice dinner at the buffet place right across the street (only $23.99 *wink*). I’ll probably upload the pictures once I’m back home (which can take a while).
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Today the UDS starts which takes place at Google in Mountain View, CA. They have nice office buildings, lots of parking space, a lot of green (grass, trees, flowers etc.) and it all stimulates creativity. It almost feels like a geek’s home. Bean bags, wifi everywhere (I still have to find a black spot), great food, post-it space invaders, non-stereotype geeky employees, they have got it all.
I followed a community track and at some point the question was asked “So why do you do Ubuntu?” Some of the answers included: it feels like doing charity work, fixing bug #1, equality, learning, great people, freedom of speech/technical/accessibility, sexy.
In the “Enabling 3rd party repositories” session the concensus was that you will still require root for installation and that one uses /opt/vendor if it can’t be built as a normal Debian package. When these repositories are implemented, they will probably also be backported to Hardy (if it catches on).
After a long day I decided to go to bed early, I did not feel well.
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