GUADEC was pretty sweet this year. Okay, I wasn’t financially able to physically be there, but I enjoyed it as best I could from St. Louis, Missouri. Of the videos I watched, my favourites were
- Owen Taylor’s talk on Cairo
- Jeff Waugh’s inspirational “10×10″ talk
- Miguel de Icaza’s keynote
- Davyd Madeley’s talk on the future of panel applets
- the lightning talks (xgl!)
I hope some more videos and slides show up online soon…
I was excited to hear that Google is offering bounties for students who complete open source projects for Ubuntu, Mono, Gnome, and others.
The news that Nokia’s new internet tablet uses Gnome technologies is fantastic and congratulations to all those involved in the project, however, I am having trouble figuring out for whom this device was designed. I understand it’s not a phone, nor is it a PDA, nor is it an iPod-killer. So does anyone really need an “internet tablet”? If it had a longer battery life and played vorbis I could maybe see myself using it on philosophical and technical grounds. In the meantime, I’m a bit skeptical, but I do hope for the best.
Tags: GNOME
June 1st, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Re: the Nokia device - I don’t get it either, but I want one. Truthfully it’s just a couple applications away from being a PDA (and it sounds like most of that is coming in the next software release). I wondered if maybe they were trying to avoid the death stench of the PDA market, but doesn’t “Internet tablet” also carry that stench? I hope there’s a market for this thing, but I doubt it’s as an extra Internet device for the living room… It fits my needs, though - I spend lots of hours on different job sites (and, truthfully, in different coffee shops) and often lug my laptop around just to glom off the Wifi, surf the web and check my email. Something like this would fit the bill 99% of the time for me.