The best moment of the day was to meet Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and get a chance to hear his vision (more below).
We (me and Garry) had also a nice and long talk with Matthias Hopf of X.org (and SuSE Germany) about X development, opensource, etc., during which I managed (with his help) to get Xgl/compiz running on my laptop and I can finally enjoy wobbling windows, 3d desktop switching, and transparent windows.
Happy to say that it took me just several apt-get install … commands on my Ubuntu. I’m impressed.
Just before flying back home, I got caught by Douglas Magoulas of campware.org who (among other things) got me thinking about this:
Do you think Ubuntu is successfull because it’s pretty and easy to use?
Yes of course it is, but the bigger part of the story is Launchpad and Ubuntu Forums that make it extremely easy for anyone to observe the project, report bugs, post questions, and generally get attention of developers. This is what builds the community, the collaboration tools.
Did I mention having a mailinglist and bug-tracker is not enough?
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September 22, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
Today was the .org day at EuroOSCON 2006. We were running a decent, and friendly OpenSolaris booth. We handed out tenths of OpenSolaris StarterKit DVDs and black anniversary t-shirts.
People coming to the booth were generally interested in knowing more about OpenSolaris, it seems that everyone know what Solaris is (quoting their words: “what Solaris was”), but they don’t know how does Solaris relate to OpenSolaris, what is our business model. In general, they were eager to get the DVDs to try them out on their laptops.
The <i boot> DVD is especially interesting because it allows you to boot all existing OpenSolaris distributions from one media, you just have to choose the right one from the GRUB boot menu. Awesome stuff.
My thanx go to all guys who helped to run the booth, from left to right: Darren Keny (JDS), Chris Beal (Kernel), Garry Pennington (Website), Patrick Finch (Communication), and Pete Dennis (Kernel). I don’t deserve to be at the picture, since I was just running around all those sessions while they took the time to answer the questions.
We had the BoF in the evening, not attended by many people, but I believe this was due to the fact that none of the BoFs at EuroOSCON has actually been attended by many people. We had a quiet and friendly talk about DTrace, SMF, Zones, and ZFS, and we all I believe have learned something new.
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September 20, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
The first day of European O’Reilly OpenSource Convention conference taking place this year in Brussels didn’t quite meet my expectations. I was listening to some podcasts from EuroOSCON 2005 and I was really impressed by the quality of the talks. I actually expected lot of thought provoking ideas and discussions, but this year the speakers seem to be repeating what has already been said many times.
The bright moment of the day was my evening conversation with Bram Moolenar, the creator of VIM about opensource, licensing, Europe, my work at SUN and his work at Google.
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September 19, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
TÅ™i hodinové pojezdy na tÅ™eboňském rybnÃÄku. VÃtr velmi nárazový, z nuly na dvacet metrů bÄ›hem pár milisekund. Jezdil jsem 5.5 a 4.7 jako obvykle.
September 19, 2006
CZ, Windsurfing
Náš prvnà výlet na Kanárské Ostrovy nepÅ™edÄil oÄekávánÃ, opÄ›t se nám podaÅ™ilo pÅ™ivézt bezvÄ›třà tam, kde jinak fouká téměř nepÅ™etržitÄ› celý rok. NicménÄ›, když už foukalo, což bylo každý den zhruba od pÄ›ti odpoledne, tak pořádnÄ›. PrůmÄ›r se držel kolem 13 metrů a nárazy stouplay kamsi k 17 metrům.
Jezdil jsem na půjÄeném JP Freestyle Wave 75l, 85l, 93l plachty Neil Pryde Combat, Zone 4.0, 4.2, 4.7, 5.0, 5.2. NejkomfotnÄ›jÅ¡Ã kombinace byla 75/4.0, hlavnÄ› dÃky velikosti chopu a sÃle vÄ›tru.
Z Å¡esti dnů na mÃstÄ› jsem najezdil 8.5 hodiny, z Äehož 6 mÄ›lo smysl. Celková cena zájezdu 20kkÄŒ. Celkový dojem: ostrov bez kultury a historie se zvláštnà (sopeÄnou krajinou) odkud původnà španÄ›lé byli vytlaÄeni spoustou bohatých postarÅ¡Ãch nÄ›mců, kteřà zde utrácejà svoje (na kontinentu) těžce vydÄ›lané penÃze.
September 12, 2006
CZ, Windsurfing
