Archive for March, 2008

trip to premiere of “Big Buck Bunny”

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008


On the 10th of april - in about two weeks - the 2nd OpenMovie, “Big Buck Bunny” will premiere. A friend and myself will go to Amsterdam for the screening there and to meet the people behind the project. There are still two seats available in the car. So if there’s any blender-enthusiast in the greater area of Aachen (Germany that is *g*) who wants to come too, drop me an email.

Send me your gtk+-questions!

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I’m doing interviews with all gtk+ upstream-hackers during the gtk+-hackweek here in Berlin. Please send me the questions you would like to ask the people behind the toolkit used in GNOME. And please hurry with sending me those questions via email. But keep it brief, three questions at maximum and stick to questions about gtk+-features you would like to see (or rather their feasibility) and future-development. For example avoid overly generic questions like “What’s the next big thing coming in gtk+?” or “Why isn’t my favourite bug XYZ in current gtk+ fixed?”. Remember this is about gtk+’s future. I will take the liberty to pick a subset from all the questions send to me. This week is mainly about planning and hacking and not about asking these folks a 1000 questions. If you want you can add a hint about the person I should ask a particular question.

CeBIT and gtk+-hackfest

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

I just arrived in Berlin for the gtk+-hackfest after maning the GNOME-booth at CeBIT for a week. Gosh do I feel exhausted right now! Reporting about that is something I do later, after I had a good sleep!

So the gtk+-hackfest is about to start. Too bad that there was no reliable wifi in the Linux-park at CeBIT. At least not when the room allocation was put up on live.gnome.org. It’s a bit unfortunate that I was not able to directly place myself in the appartment with the folks behind cairo, clutter, X11 etc.