FOSSCamp 07 - It's in the game!

I sucked at blogging this week, mainly because UDS has been a real "volume turned to 11" event. I'm spending the weekend in Southwest Harbor, Maine at the "annual" LTSP.org By The Seaway hackfest, but more on that later, right now I'd like to do a quick summary of people I talked to at FOSSCamp.

I was real happy to see David Nusinow (Debian and X.org) link up with our X.org maintainer, Bryce Harrington. Bryce will be keeping our X.org work in a git repository, and working with David on ping-ponging patches back and forth between Debian, Ubuntu, and X.org upstream. This is going to mean better X for everyone which of course, is the entire reason for having an event like FOSSCamp.

Linked up with Scott Ritchie from the Wine Project, discussing things like getting a better Wine into Ubuntu and how best to maintain it across releases.

Met up with Troy Unaru, Celeste Lyn Paul, and Robert Knight from KDE. Had long discussions over beer about how best to work out better communications with KDE and Kubuntu in general, with Jonathan Riddell hovering around ensuring I didn't say anything too dumb. Also got to see a quick demo of KDE4.

A big thanks to our Fedora friends, who sent Colin Walters, Bryan Clark, Jon Master, David Zeuthen, and Jesse Keating. (I forgot the woman's name who was with Colin, sorry!). She and Colin showed off some of the online desktop stuff. Colin also talked about his new shell, hotwire. It would be great if we could get Colin back to do another Ohio LinuxFest. Brian was showing off some of the multi-monitor config stuff he's been working on, and it was great to finally meet Jesse. It was good to see David Zeuthen link up with Martin Pitt and talk about HAL and other fdo stuff.

Another thanks to our friends at Novell: Aaron Bockover was kind enough to host a "State of the Banshee" BOF. He showed off the new view he's been working on with Gabriel Burt. There's major surgery being done in SVN, in 6 months it will be pretty awesome. Got to have dinner with Joe Shaw (Good luck in your new job!), and hang out with Miguel de Icaza and Guy Lunardi. Unfortunately the Ubuntu vs. openSUSE NHL 2008 event ended up me losing to abock 1-0.

It was also great to hang out with Og Maciel from Foresight Linux. It was fun to look over to Og during the PackageKit session while a bunch of distro people nodding in agreement about how awesome PackageKit is. It was basically the "wow dude, I thought this was going to be way more controversial!" Further proof that anything ending in Kit is automatically guaranteed to be awesome, like Ryan Lortie's PanelKit.

And lastly, I can always count on the GNOME cabal to make an appearance, desrt, gicmo, lool, seb128, mvo, pedro, macslow, and their crew of awesome.

Note: If you were an upstream and I missed your name, just mail me or comment below. I am currently enduring a hurricane in Maine locked in a room with a bunch of LTSP hackers. (aka. Arkham Asylum), so I'm not exactly in a proper state of mind. Shout out to Gerald Carter from Samba!

... I'll be back later with UDS-specific stuff.

EDIT: OMG I can't believe I forgot to mention Andreas Nilsson, who is Tango-riffic!

 

Comments

[Jeff Schroeder]

So when is someone going to make BeerKit? That would be the awesome to end all awesomeness...