I finally started to put the whole organisational part in motion before going to GUADEC, and now I'm finally starting to publicise the course! I'm going to teach again my Python course, for adults this time, for people with no programming background. The course will start on August 23rd and …

This is the talk that was hijacked by the release team to make the announcement about the delay in releasing Gnome 3.

It's strange that I had to fly to the Netherlands and speak with some cool folks from Germany to learn about this, but the first MeeGo Conference is planned to occur in Dublin this November. Their call for papers includes talks targeting newcomers to the platform, and the event looks …

I missed the talk at GUADEC, but some very cool stats on Gnome participation were released. The full report is available and there is also a blog post summarising some of the information. Looks like my experience of mostly meeting people employed to work on or with Gnome is either …

Lots, lots, lots of bicycles. After 5 days I still haven't totally grokked the explicit and implicit rules of where to walk to avoid being run over by a bike. But I survived!

At GUADEC, when someone asks you "what do you do?" they mean in Gnome. I met very …