GUADEC Core Schedule Announced
A preliminary schedule for the Core Days is now available. People who are scheduled for the Core days should be receiving an email shortly, and I hope to release a schedule for the Warm Up and After Hours tomorrow.
Sorry for the delay in producing this, I know for many people they needed to know as soon as possible. Basically, the submissions this year was both excellent and numerous, which made selection very hard!
NP: Listen and Learn, Hexstatic
GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative
Well, it's finally public: the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE) is ready to rock and roll. OpenedHand has been a part of this from the very beginning, working on the platform before it was a platform, and helping to shape the platfom once the contributors with a common interest got together.
It has been really exciting to see GMAE go from a twinkle in Jeff's eye to a real project, with real companies involved and real products using it. Hopefully this momentum will continue, and we'll achieve Complete World Domination in the embedded market by... well, 2010 sounds reasonable.
NP: Remembranza, Murcof
OProfileUI
Excellent news for the day: Rob announced OProfileUI and released version 0.1.1. OProfileUI is a graphical interface to OProfile, similar to Sysprof, but with the advantages that it uses OProfile and has a client/server architecture. Why is this so great?
OProfile: OProfile is in mainline Linux and shipped in most distributions. OProfile can profile both user space and kernel space, and works on x86-32, x86-64, IA64, PPC, ARM, MIPS, Sparc and more (although OProfileUI has only been tested against x86-32 and ARM so far).
Client/Server: with a client/server design you can run the lightweight oprofile-server on the target device (this only links to GLib) and run the interface on your desktop machine, moving the intensive work of analysing the profile data from the target to the more powerful desktop. This also lets you profile one machine doing tasks where it is normally tricky to run a profiler, such as logging in to GNOME from GDM, by moving the control interface to another machine.
I've been fanboying Rob over this for some time now, I'm really pleased that it has finally been released. Let's go profile!
Announcing Pimlico
OpenedHand have announced Pimlico, an umbrella project for our PIM applications: Contacts, Dates, Tasks and Sync (in progress).
Released at the same time was Dates 0.4: this release is a vast improvement on the previous release and now available in three flavours: desktop, Maemo, and OpenMoko.
At the same time we sneaked out an updated set of evolution-data-server packages for Maemo 3.0. As far as the user is concerned the only changes are that addressbook syncing will work (using OpenSync or SyncEvolution), and that WebCal is supported (as used by Dates).
NP: Urban Biology, Machine Drum
Postr Category
Quick poll for Planet Gnome, and any other interested folks. Should Postr, my Flickr uploading applicaton, appear in the Graphics submenu on the panel, or the Internet submenu? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, or post a comment if you want. Thanks!
NP: Rideau, Tape
Wanted: Postr Icon
Wanted: icon for Postr. I'm not sure what sort of design I'd like for a Flickr uploader, maybe a photo frame in front of the "web browser" globe icon would do the job. Thanks to anyone who does a rocking icon!
NP: Kaleidoscope, DJ Food
Finally!
At OpenedHand we've been working on confidential projects for a while, and it's nice that we're finally able to talk about them. The first project we can talk about is the Vernier Labquest: a really interesting handheld device for science education. For the geeks out there, it runs Linux, Poky, X11, Matchbox and GTK+. We're really excited to see this being released soon, and are very proud to have been a part of it.
The second project is even more interesting for the geeks out there, but you'll have to wait a few more days for that...
