Author: Jeff
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Nostalgia for the sunlight
One of my best remedies against gloominess is sunlight. I have a fairly luminous apartment in theory: a big window, lightly-colored floors and white walls. Therefore, when strong direct sunlight hits the floor, the difference is striking: the whole place glows up. The tricky part, however, is making the most of the sun’s presence. In…
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BBC Radio's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy
Other than for self-improvement, I’m not a big fan of books (nor podcasts) in general, because of the big time investment required. THIS, however, is such an amazing masterpiece of a radio adaptation that I can heartily recommend it to anyone who has a good grasp of spoken British English (it was produced over fourty…
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Inking an old friend
When I was young, I read a lot of comic books. One of my favorite séries was Cubitus: Over fifteen years ago, Michel Grant, a local comic book artist passionate about teaching, made a quick sketch of Cubitus & Sénéchal for me, on a big sheet of paper. I liked it enough to have it…
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Pitivi 0.95 — Enfant Suisse
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work. It’s pretty epic…
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In which I turn into an international shipping operation
In months prior to the GUADEC 2015 conference, both the board of directors and engagement team were kept busy with an above-average workload, so the GNOME Foundation‘s Annual Report had to wait until things settled a bit. After the core days of GUADEC, we held an all-day meeting among members of the Engagement team (and…
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The War Against Deadlocks, part 2
Heads up, citizens of the video editing world! Our war correspondent Alexandru has taken some of my battered notes, done some more research and published a fine report on the second part of Pitivi‘s War Against Deadlocks. Go read it now! 😃
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Capturing the essence of a cool symphonic orchestra through video
One of the things I do as part of my varied service offering at idéemarque is filmmaking, sound and video editing—as some of you must have realized by now, I have this undying passion for storytelling and the making of motion picture. So when a symphonic orchestra requests my help to make a promotional video…
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Outrageous Outreach
The Internet being what it is today, being a public figure can be a very dangerous role. For those unaware, Karen Sandler has been under vigorous attacks—hate mail, public slandering, and more—for having been the GNOME Foundation‘s Executive Director from 2011 to 2014. Contrary to what I had hoped, even many months after, the hate…
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Help us get the GUADEC 2014 videos published
For those who could not attend GUADEC 2015, video recordings have been processed and published here. You might wonder, then, what happened to the GUADEC 2014 videos. The talks in Strasbourg were recorded indeed, but the audio came from the camera’s built-in microphones (so no truly directional mic and no line-in feed). This is problematic…
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GUADEC 2015, surviving a fire and plane accident, etc.
So I went to GUADEC, as a community member and one of the directors of the GNOME Foundation. Thanks to the Foundation for covering my travel and accomodation—it makes all the difference! It was a really good GUADEC. The local team put a huge amount of efforts into making it possible. There is a public page…