sejo's rants

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It's been a since I updated my blog. Real time and online things came together and didn't exactly make my life easier. A small summary of the last few weeks.

1. Open Source Days in Copenhagen

   I was happy that Raf could drive me to Copenhagen as I was not allowed to drive after my knee surgery. We drove from Belgium with 3 Raf, Ingmar and me. The trip to Denmark was pleasant and with regular stops I did not have much issues with my knee. Once in Copenhagen we met up with Alexander. This to drop of Ingmar. We decided we would go for dinner in the city. Raf and me proceeded to drop our stuff off at the hotel and relax a bit. The Hotel was pretty nice, the rooms weren't that big but we had all the luxury we needed. Before we went to dinner we made a quick stop at the venue where Alexander could set some stuff up. We met up with Bryan there and had a nice chat. Afterwards off for dinner at Jensen's Bøfhus where we had a good meal, but as we were completely dead from driving we made it an early night.

   Day 2 we went to the venue and met up with Pim and the exherbo team. We there decided to start helping out with the exherbo Infrastructure team. We didn't see that many interesting talks that day as they were mostly commercial minded and we had some work for Inuits to do. Also I kinda needed to prepare my talk.

   The evening was spent in the center of Copenhagen with dinner and afterwards Pim, Raf and me went to the hotel for a small drink and our beds.

   Day 3 was more interesting there was Pim's talk, mine and the android talk that we really looked forward to. Pim and I did great (eh eh eh) but the android talk was basicly not good. The guy talked about setting up android on a never heard before board and all the steps he did to get it (not natively) working. I fell asleep. For lunch Raf and me went to Haiku Sushi and kinda liked it, so we decided to take Pim, Bryan, Ingmar and zlin (exherbo KDE dev, has no blog) for dinner there. They will not easily forget us there and we will not really forget in neither! Sushi was great Sake was better and plenty grin. Back at the hotel Pim, Raf and me made plans to take over the world and went back to sleep.

2. NOiV Conference in Utrecht

   I went to the NOiV conference in Utrecht where the day was filled with information about Open Standards and how to use them with Open Source software in Governments. There was one talk that was extremely good and that was the talk of Olle Johansson about Open Communication. He talked about his experience with communication (phone, email, jabber,...) and the things that are lacking to make all communication open. He also stated his belief that the new phone number will be in the email format. I don't know if his talk is public but I'm thinking about inviting him for FOSDEM.

3. Renovations

   I am in the midst of some home renovations (well only 40% of the house will be rebuild so technically it's still a renovation). Currently we are redoing one of the bedrooms to be our new bathroom and hopefully by the end of next week it's finished. Also the top floor will be redone with wooden floors.

4. Exherbo infra team

   I joined the Exherbo infra team to help them with their infrastructure, right now we are waiting on some hardware to be colocated, but once that arrives Raf and I will be jumping on the work. First thing we will do is setup a redmine server and an openldap. The redmine is to allow Raf and I to follow up our sprints.

5. Freenode staff resignation

   Due to lack of time I resigned my staff position at Freenode. It's been a blast and I really enjoyed it but lately I couldn't find enough time to help out users on the network. So I decided I should stop as I want to focus on all the infra jobs I do in the OS world. I will miss the team and the job also but I can still help out when I find time. And you can still find me in a lot of channels there.

On a side note I switched my laptop from Fedora to Exherbo. The problem I had with fedora is that I needed to compile my own kernel, and a dozen more apps to have a working system for me. And If I use a distro I want the distro to do it for me. Basically I think I've been using source based distributions too long to be able to enjoy others :p.

I will not promise to update this blog more regularly as I prefer to blog when I have something to say :p.

llap!