Up North

As short summary of what has been going on at Imendio lately.

• A few weeks ago a couple of Imendians met up in Hamburg and stayed at Tim’s apartment over the weekend. We had some very interesting discussions about canvases, GTK+ tasks that can be lifted of the core maintainers and bling effects for GTK+. Mirco Müller was there and showed some of the nifty features he was working on and Benjamin Otte gave a short presentation of how Flash works. And of course, Reperbahn, weird back street pub, Pudel Club and finally the Fish Market until 11.30 the following day.
• Tim has been working on improving the maintenance situation in the GTK+ project and as a result he sent out an email about ways for people to help out and getting involved. If you are interested in participating in the continued success of the project, read the email and see if there is anything you can do.
• Carlos sent out an email to get the discussion going on finding a canvas/new widget core for GTK+. I’m thrilled to see some movement in this area again and very much look forward to having this functionality in GTK+.
• We decided to sponsor Guadec for the third year in a row. Let’s make this one even better than the last!
• Last but definitely not least, GMAE was announced yesterday. Kudos to all involved and in particular Jeff for making this possible. This is an important step to spread GNOME (all of it, including the community) to the embedded/mobile market.

Press releases: Imendios and the official.

Put up the presentations from our sessions at Guadec 2006 so if anyone wants the PDF version of any of Imendios sessions just visit:

http://www.imendio.com/guadec2006

Thanks to every one for making this the best Guadec ever!

Dave: First of all, did I ever say that I thought that Guadec was free to organize? Of course it costs, and people have requested seing what it costs and where the money is spent ever since the registration fees last year. It would defintely be easier for everyone to see where their money is going.

I do know that it costs money, but it would be interested to see how much money is spent on flying in hackers and how much is spent on flying in speakers with little or no connection to GNOME.

Dave, so where can I find information about sponsoring for Guadec? I can’t find anything now and I couldn’t when I looked a while back.

I’m pretty sure that people have no ideas flying in other hackers is worth the money but flying in some of the speakers that doesn’t have anything to do with GNOME to bost the commercial aspect of GNOME I know for a fact that a lot of people have problem with.