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I put the latest version of cairo-clock in my PPA. One for gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10) and one for hardy (upcoming Ubuntu 8.04). I should now really update the launchpad-page for cairo-clock with this.

Last weekend I went to FOSDEM’08. This meeting never fails to impress. I attended talks about clutter, pigment, nouveau, Gallium3D, xorg-driver status-report, debian-packaging and met up with GNOME- and xorg-folks mostly, but also some people from KDE-crowd. So what conclusion did I draw from this weekend in Bruxelles? The desktop-graphics landscape for the free desktop is on the right track and we’ll have a lot of fun in the near future.

I’ll be at CeBIT’08 in Hannover, Germany next week maning the GNOME-booth the whole week with Sven “herzi” Herzberg.

I was invited to the gtk+ hackfest in Berlin by the GNOME-foundation. First of all huge thanks for this to the people on the board or committee! I feel very honored. Also big thanks to Canonical for letting me attend it on company time!

… that OpenSource and OpenContent (think: Creative Commons) has finally reached the broad public eye. Ton Roosendaal’s keynote from last weeks Berlinale film-festival in Berlin, Germany is the best exposure of this to the general public to date.

Having a place in my heart for offline computer-graphics, seeing his keynote made smile broadly! The whole community of contributors and supporters of blender deserve a big round of applause and tons of beer for getting blender and the idea behind OpenContent and 3D in general using OpenSource technology that far. Congratulations, this is a major achievement!

Kids remember… this is what you get when you bet on OpenSource!