everything but explicit
The reason for me being very calm on my blog is due to a busy schedule in the recent weeks. There was my personal financial disaster that was CeBIT, where I did a talk on the state of things regarding multimedia on GNOME. Sorry, no slides for this, because it was 80% demonstrating applications (or at least pretending to be using them). On the side of end-user-ready applications there is still a lot to do, in order to provide well-integrated native multimedia-applications for GNOME. Folks, PiTiVi needs you, seriously… give Edward Hervey a hand!
Next was a small brainstorming weekend in Hamburg with a few core gtk+-developers from Imendio. We stayed at rambokid’s place and did talking and tossing around ideas for the most part. My take from that weekend is this… if gtk+ gets the resources (developers, designers, funding) the sky’s the limit. I was invited to that meeting by Imendio after some of the Imendio-bunch saw my talk “bling it up - make it sexy” at FOSDEM 2007. The role I had at the meeting could be best described as “API-user stating wishes for gtk+’s future”. I also showed a few examples of stuff I’ve written, that offers things currently not possible within gtk+ itself today.
Upcoming is my internship at Fluendo in Barcelona starting this friday… rock&roll! During that three month period I’ll also be at the LGM2 and UDS Sevilla. I’m equally thrilled and intimidated by this intense road ahead.
On the software-development side of things I’m trying my best with getting stuff done that’s on my mind/TODO. Currently this means some base-work I need for lowfat and a few other things. One could call it a side-effect of those projects. Since I’m not in the mood for writing a whole essay on the topic, here’s a glimpse of that in unnarrated screencast-form…
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April 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Nice prototype of new gnome-about :>
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
MacSlow shows his trademark love of bling once again with Agora . Keep up the creative work.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
nice demo.
Where can I found some samples of agora to study it?
April 4th, 2007 at 3:25 am
That is soo cool dude! Loving your work.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Did you see this job advertisement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023443.html ?
April 13th, 2007 at 12:30 am
@ Sbia: Nowhere yet. I am still in the process of grasping the involved issues like what features do I want, how to best implement them and how to best expose them in an API. Once that’s done it will make sense to have Agora start to live in the open. It would not be very responsible to drop something on the public without having a solid understanding of related issues.
@ Johan: Yes I did. But since I’m not done with university yet, I cannot dive into any full-time job-commitments. That would neither be wise nor professional.