Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, breakfast, quick mail chew. Trains
home, plugged away at some work on the train.
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Published the next strip: an interview with Cynthia, a
seeker of administrative excellence
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Sync with Thorsten, Technical Committee call, catch up with Dave.
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Up too early, set off for Brussels; worked
on train, another train, Eurostar waiting room, train
etc. Arrived, more work.
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Meeting to encourage the EC in it's Digital
Sovereignty direction.
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Reception afterwards, and out for dinner
in the evening together. Up late.
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Up early, mail chew, admin, lots of 1:1's.
H' returned home safely - lovely to see her.
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Back to marketing content, and 1:1s.
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Bella over to see M. dinner together; out
for an evening walk with J. in the heat and light
rain.
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Up early, violin at All Saints. Home for a
pizza lunch with Laura & Tyler, enjoyed that and
chatted in the sun; slept for a bit - exhausted.
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Chat with Dad, caught up with N, watched
a couple of Foundation episodes - annoyingly different
to the book: some things better, some worse.
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Up earlyish, helped E. to clean and clear the house
in preparation for her 18th Birthday party, amazing how much
stuff can litter the place.
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Got some hacking done in spare cycles (fun!), nice to
see something get pushed after a week of travel.
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Out for a nice walk with J. and M. in the evening to
get out of the partiers hair; back late, slept through the
dancing, looked fun.
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Off to an all-day meeting, met lots of
people old & new, shared mascots and stickers
left and right. Caught up with Ludovic, Pamela and
many others.
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Very hot; very delayed Eurostar back, got
to the mail queue on the train, and some hacking.
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Up early, tech-planning call: really encouraging
to have such a talented, competent and pro-active group of
hackers to work alongside.
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Sync with Lily, lunch, catch-up with Laser,
plugged away at admin on the trains to Cambridge and
then to Kings Cross. Set opposite an interesting banker
on the Eurostar; fun.
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Up late poking at mail, news etc.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, welcome and Q&A call with
recent new-starters, admin, potential partner call. Lunch.
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Published the next strip: more experienced do-ers?
and attracting the right sort of people:
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All Hands meeting, followed by TC call, then out for
a run with J.
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Band practice in the evening.
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Up early, mail chew; admin, planning call, sync with
Anna & Andras, lunch, catch up with Laser. Monthly
management meeting.
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Plugged away at mail & admin into the afternoon.
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Out with J,M&E. to a Brazilian Steak House for a
pre-birthday celebration; delicious.
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Up too early, drove to Peterborough for a passport refresh
appointment, back to a co-working space, call with Miklos, got
a chunk of the admin backlog done.
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Lunch, collected new passport; drove home, marketing content
review for a while, sync with Eloy, met with an interesting start-up.
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Played Violin at All Saints, six person group
with Laura back; nice.
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Late BBQ lunch with David over, poked at useful
tools for removing render for him.
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Watched Rouge One Moon together in the evening;
hey ho.
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Up really early, poked at some hacking while J.
slept; looked at automating shared ccache pieces between
build trees. Discovered Caolan well ahead of me.
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Played guitar a bit, out for a walk with J. onto
the race course to see the roses while M. ran home;
rested watched clouds & chatted together, fun.
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Up early, mail chew - amazed that people continue to keep
offering to buy the GNOME Foundation from me (!?) - a creative
kind of spam for sure.
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Sync with Dave, lengthy call with Florian,Paolo, Thorsten
& others. Catch up with Miklos, Pedro, Sahil. Octopus Energy
sync.
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Imaged a clean disk for USA travel.
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Up early, sorted out passport replacement pieces. Tech.
planning call, quick lunch, customer call, sync with Laser,
sales team call, marketing call, finance call. Onto the E-mail
mountain.
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House group in the evening, bed earlyish.
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Up early, met a friendly partner at breakfast. Taxi,
Coach, airplane etc. back to blighty.
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Published the next strip: an interview with
Dolores: community manager.
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Up early, breakfast with Andy & Eloy. On
to the conference - distributed ~150 beavers, lots of
stickers, guides.
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Gave an encouragingly well attended talk:
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Eloy demo'd the latest COOL goodness, more
booth duty.
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Talked to lots of people at the bar in the evening,
enjoyed some Nextcloud birthday-cake.
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license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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