I am giving a presentation on the GNOME Developer Kit this Saturday (May 3rd) at the Chicago GLUG meeting. I am wondering what people would like to hear about or would be interested in hearing about in regards to a presentation on the GNOME Developer Kit.
So as some of you have seen or heard my old laptop was in need of on upgrade. I could barely run more than 2 applications at a time and it was having unpredictable behaviors with traveling and the lid hinge was broken. So I took the money I got back from taxes to buy me a new laptop. I got a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop. It runs Foresight smoothly except for a few issues which I am working on solutions for and will document the fixes so others can benefit.
I will post a solution to these issues when I get them fixed.
So I just got back from Foresight 20/20 yesterday and it was a great success. Foresight 20/20 was the first ever Foresight user and developer conference and we had 30 attendees throughout the weekend. I arrived on Friday evening and met some other early arrivals at rPath’s HQ and then we went to go get some Thai food and then drinks. It was so great meeting all these people I work with and talk to only online. It was the first time I met many of them such as pscott, doniphon, dugan, jforbes, hpa and great meeting up with pcutler, kenvandine, ryanK, msw, jtate, elliot and stefw again.
On Saturday we officially started the conference and I met even more Foresighters (etank, jkeyes0, OgMaciel, devnet, gxti, and SM2k) . It started with a talk by Ken about the vision of Foresight. After that we had a discussion about what we each felt needed fixed with Foresight. This is a great way to start the weekend because then it helped to plan events geared toward fixing those issues. We also were given a overview of the roadmap for Foresight and its future. After that we had a hands-on packaging session where people could write packages and work with mentors to help improve their recipes. We then broke out into groups and went to go grab lunch. After lunch we broke out in 2 tracks I attended the track with the community building session followed by the Marketing session which I lead. After we finished with the conference for the day we went out to eat as a group and then went out for drinks.
Sunday was more of the unconference/unstructured style which I really like and think worked very well. We started off by having people suggestions possible session and hackfest these included packageKit hackfest, What we want from PackageKit, Foresight used in a business model, Foresight wiki cleanup hackfest, creating derived distros of Foresight, planning for the next Foresight 20/20 and many more. I was leading the wiki cleanup hackfest and then attended the packageKit idea session. After the conference ended on Sunday I played some smash brothers on the Wii with Elliot, jforbes and pscott. After we finished that and cleaning up after the conference we went to get supper and drinks at Raleigh Times, I highly recommend it. During dinner I had a great talk with dugan about what ChiPy has done to attract members to their meetings and how they structure their meetings. He was interested as he is trying to help improve the NYC Python Group.
Overall I feel that Foresight 20/20 was a great success and I will go no matter where its located. It was great putting faces to the nicks I talk to all the time in irc. Also the sharing of ideas in person was such a useful benefit to get everybody on the same page with a high level understanding. I look forward to the next Foresight 20/20 and would recommend coming to anybody no matter if you are a Foresight developer or just interested in learning more about Foresight.
So I guess I will follow along with the trend of post my top ten commands. Here it goes:
jkevin:/Users/kevin kevin$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
245 ssh
38 ls
27 ping
26 telnet
21 scp
19 vim
19 rm
19 cd
15 nslookup
10 exit
As you can see most of my work is done on various remote machines. So to get a more accurate listing I would need to run this on all my machines and then aggregate the data together. This might not be a bad idea for a slick little python script.
Hmm, could that be Mr. KDE aka Nixternal. Wait that couldn’t be since that is a GNOME button under his name tag, but it sure is nixternal. It would have been even better if the GUADEC shirt would have fit him. He was going to wear that shirt during his KDE 4 talk at Flourish.
I will be running the GNOME booth at Flourish this year. Flourish is a FLOSS conference located in Chicago, Illinois, USA with a focus on FLOSS in business and academia. I am currently looking for volunteers to help me work the booth at Flourish. The conference is on April 4-5th in Chicago, IL at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) campus. If you are willing to help work the GNOME booth leave a comment saying so.
So this post is going to recap all the recent releases we have had with Foresight recently.
Are you linkedIn? If So I have a couple of questions for you. Do you use Foresight? If so you should join the Foresight Users linkedIn group. Do you develop or contribute to Foresight? If so you should join the Foresight Development linkedIn group.
Also I am looking to create a Chicago GNU/Linux User Group linkedIn group but I need some artwork first. So if someone could adapt our logo to work at 100×50 pixels and 60×30 pixels that would be great.
So there is an initial question from Celeste for 5 peoples top 5 bands and their top 5 songs for those bands. I was lucky enough to be tagged to be picked by nixternal and you are unlucky enough to have to suffer through my list.
So now I have to tag 5 people to list their 5 with 5. So here is my list of people: pcutler, pscott, kungfooguru, posingaspopular, kenvandine.
I have great news for all you Foresight fans and even just general Linux fans. Shuttle will be selling a $199 Linux box called the KPC. This wonderful little machine will be featuring Foresight with everything working out of the box, including visual effects from Compiz. Here is the press release from Shuttle.
Shuttle today announced that the newly launched $199 KPC will feature the Foresight Linux operating system. With an intuitive interface and user focused design, Foresight does away with the need for users to be familiar with Linux.
A host of the latest software is packaged with the operating system, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to music, photos, videos, documents, and the Internet. Even keeping up-to-date with the latest features and fixes is a simple process with the user friendly update button.Foresight uses the revolutionary Conary® Package Manager developed by rPath and distributed as Open Source software under the terms of the Common Public License. With the Conary® Package Manager, the system updates only the specific files in packages which need to be updated so updating takes little time and bandwidth.Shuttle’s KPC includes many software packages already installed, including the OpenOffice.org® office suite, the Firefox® web browser, the Pidgin instant messenger, the Banshee music player, the Totem movie player, the F-Spot photo organizer, and Compiz for 3D desktop effects. For more details visit: http://us.shuttle.com/kpc
