Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early, shower - vicious soap problem.
Breakfast, out for a walk, in the old (and graffetied
center of town).
- Train to the Sun office - sadly, the E-mails
were full of links but not the content, managed to get
a fuzzy map photocopied, ended up in the room in the end.
- Read through most of Miguel's talk, nice and
vague as far as I got - which is good, the linguistic issues
are really interesting. MS Office localized to only 24
languages, growing local industry.
- Curtis spoke - lots of interesting things,
news from China, US government, rock stars. Of OO.o
contributors, 20% ISVs, 25% >100 employee companies, Windows
& Linux same importance. Direction 16% macro, 11%
components, ~10% VB stuff. 13.5million downloads. 1 million
unique registration hits. Deployment pie-chart: Linux 27%,
Solaris 2.3% Windows 2k 18.4%, Win XP: 17.6% ... Priorities to
focus on: Stability, 63%, Ease of Use: 41%, Security 40%,
Interop. 34%. Joerg did an OO.o 1.1 demo, showed some nice
Arabic layout stuff, the macro recorder, some flashy database
demos, dynamic reports etc. Accessibility demo'd gnopernicus,
doing screen reading with at-spi; worked rather well.
- Spent quite a while talking to John about Sun's
internal priorities, direction etc. he seems emminently
sensible; good.
- Nice talk on CWS - apparrently for all shared
modules between Sun and OO.o the master code is stored on
OO.o, and that the main master workspace will be HEAD. Lazy
code review (using bonsai), and strict review nearer the time.
- Lunch with the hungarian translators, and David
/ Larz from MySQL. Off to Colm's 'GLOW' talk - the project
to replicate Chandler, re-write evolution etc. - but slightly
differently. Talked to Caolan, good chap - discovered that
*foo* in OO.o makes the text bold, and _foo_ underlines it,
we need to make '/italic/' work too.
- Met Volker, and talked to him about his Physics
research - sniffing with high powered lasers for gravitational
waves, interesting. Off to the hacking room for laptop power,
met Martin Blapp, and Dan Williams - had a protracted and
interesting chat about all manner of things, pwrt. toolkit
skinning, continued during Chris Halls' talk - great to meet
him too. Knobbled Christophe about widget layout during the
break, talked to John working on oocalc whom I met 2 years
ago in Ireland.
- On to Joerg Heillig and Martin H's talk - roadmap
and how to contribute. Apparently no major usability changes
due until OO.o 2.0, and then some major things. System
integration, mostly on windows in the past; nice areas with
Gnome, not investing in KDE, supporting on KDE - but not
investing in system integration unless it benefits both
sides; no secret that they back the Gnome horse.
- The toolkit 2 BOF by Thorsten Behrens - good,
interestingly adding a single virtual method to Window has
a large vtable bloating cost. Need better thread support,
separation of concerns: MVC and an UNO API. A new canvas:
Affine transforms, ubiquitous curves, color management,
alpha compositing, UNO API. Went on rather a long time,
I said too much.
- Off to the pub, had a nice meal, and got to
know Matthias Huetsch's Physics background, Stephan
Schaffer's 3d, radiosity background, and David's
computer-gaming past. Back to phone Julia / bed late.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
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)
