jorge's stompbox

Take the time to meet your neighbors ...

... they might be Ubuntu users.

So apparently when I moved across town to Royal Oak I moved into the same condo complex as someone in #ubuntu-us-mi.

17:59 <_stink_> do you recall having a conversation a while ago about your new place, and it possibly being in the same condo complex I live in? well, i may have just seen you walk past my front window. either you or a look alike. please correct me if i'm wrong. :P
17:59 <_stink_> you are hereby granted permission to be creeped out, too, if you want.

Wow ... talk about an 11 out of 10 on the weird-creepy-feeling-o-meter. So we walked outside and met, made plans for massive bug jam BBQs, thinking of ways to task Rick_H with more work, etc ... you know, typical stuff that new neighbors discuss(!)

Put your head down and skate!

Enough of this noise. Next time someone on planet offends you, go work on something:

Ubuntu-QA
Leonov
5-a-day
Harvest

Reminder ... OLF CFP

The Call for Papers for Ohio LinuxFest are due on August 15th! Get applying!

Thanks for being patient ...

I now have access to approve/disapprove LoCo mailing list requests and have cleared most of the queue of requests, so if you've been waiting for a list then sorry for the delays.

Harvesting Low Hanging Fruit

Daniel's new Harvest project is really going to help us find low hanging fruit that can be fixed in Ubuntu.

It's collecting data from various sources and putting them in one place. We can use this tool to ensure that fixes from upstream are getting to our users, tracks patches from other distributions (Distribution pushing patches to upstream is a more complicated topic that I will blog about in the future) and that easy-to-fix bugs.

Since Daniel is on vacation, I think it would be cool if someome gave Daniel a "virtual hug", checked out the code, and polished it up a little bit. (Throw in some nice Ubuntu-flavored colors and a header, maybe some AJAXy slick stuff, etc.) Since he's probably not checking the internet he can come home to a bunch of bzr branches ready to make this tool rock on even more!

GUADEC 2008

GUADEC was an amazing experience. I don't have much to add, other than Lefty's comments about how Free Software brings us all together tugged at the heartstrings.

I will miss hanging out at the pillows.

Look Kids, Big Ben!

So, I took a week off of work to move across town to Royal Oak, MI. We moved on Wednesday and to my surprise the new place did not have any electricity(!)

Our local power company cannot send a guy out until NEXT Wednesday (Yay monopolies!). No Internet either of course. We've been "camping" in our new place with no power (Thank God that the hot water heater is gas powered).

I'm standing up in a wedding tomorrow, then leaving right after to go to GUADEC. My clothes are in boxes someplace in the basement along with my suitcase and my computer desk, which is in a thousand pieces. In many ways, roughing it can be fun, everything is quiet, you can read a good book, etc. etc. It would have just been nice to have these moments at my convenience, instead of the busiest week of the month right before 2 weeks of travel.

If you see me at GUADEC with unmatching socks, women's clothes, or a "I went to Turkey and all I got was this lousy tshirt" then that is why.

Though I made sure I didn't miss the move to identi.ca, heh.