PyCon Ireland begins tomorrow! There might be a few tickets left to be bought at the door, if you haven't gone one yet. I am looking forward to it immensely, and should probably head to bed soon if I want to make it in time for the early start :)

From the GUADEC blog:

1. Who are you and what do you do?

I'm a software developer from Dublin, Ireland. Passionate about open-source and education.

2. How did you get into GNOME?

Gnome has been the default desktop for most distro I've used. After a while I decided to see if I …

Feeling a bit anxious about ash clouds, but looking forward to the conference!

I attended for a couple of hours the Synchronous Hackathon in Tog today. I had vague plans on making progress with the Moodle plug-in, probably related to the unit testing / refactoring of the data crunching methods... Didn't happen, but I did find a new bug, which I managed to fix …

Had an awesome time at OSS Bar Camp yesterday! I attended some awesome talks about healthcare in developing countries, automating documentation, open-source sustainability, SELinux, ZFS/BTRFS, UCD open-source lab... (which I hope to go visit for Irish coding day next week-end, after hearing some awesome things about their facilities.)

As …