Category: Planet GNOME
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The War Against Deadlocks, part 1: The story of our new thread-safe mixing elements implementation
Let me tell you of a story that was lost and forgotten amidst Pitivi’s development battlegrounds last fall, a manuscript that I recovered from a Moldy Tome in a stony field. According to my historical data, the original author was a certain “Dorian Leger”, a French messenger that went missing from the vicinity of Paris.…
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President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation
As I hinted in my retrospective in February, 2014 has been crazy busy on a personal level. Let’s now take a look at 2014-2015 from a GNOME perspective. When I offered my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation‘s Board of Directors in May last year, I knew that there would be plenty of issues to tackle…
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2014 in review
I haven’t blogged much in recent months, so this will be a pretty short and boring post, it’s meant as a pulse check anyway. All in all, 2014 has been a pretty intense year: Re-started my company Got various branding, design, marketing and research contracts. Also, management consulting assignments. Had to solve a multi-month stalemate…
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Tricks or Tracebacks? Pitivi 0.94 is here
Dear werepenguins, we’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Pitivi 0.94! This is the fourth release for the new version of our video editor based on GES, the GStreamer Editing Services library. Take a look at my previous blog post to understand in what context 0.94 has been brewing. This is mainly a maintenance…
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An update from the Pitivi 2014 summer battlefront
Hello gentle readers! You may have been wondering what has been going on since the 0.93 release and the Pitivi fundraising campaign. There are a few reasons why we’ve been quiet on the blogging side this summer: Mathieu and Thibault have been working hard to bring us towards “1.0 quality”, improving and stabilizing various parts…
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Retour de GUADEC, conspirations
As expected, GUADEC in Strasbourg was a terrific event. Huge props to the local organizing team who managed to make things work regardless of last minute curve balls, such as the venue changing or the video recording team (and their equipment) not being able to attend due to visa restrictions. I went with Alexandre Franke…
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MyPaint + Wacom screen tablet + GNOME3 = ♥
A little-known fact about me is that I can draw better than your average cat. It is a hobby of mine that became dormant with my pretty challenging professional and Free Software activities in the past few years. Drawing is hard, let’s go hacking One of the things that previously threw me off from drawing…
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A quick Pitivi status update for June 2014
I have been extremely busy in the past few months and thus have not been able to spend much time at all on Pitivi, but here’s a quick status update about the work of others in case you missed it: In follow-up to our initial look at this summer’s GSoC projects for Pitivi: Lubosz posted…
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GSoC 2014 projects for Pitivi: transformation, chroma keying, image sequences
Thanks to GNOME, we will be able to get some reinforcements for Pitivi this summer. We’re very pleased to have Lubosz Sarnecki making a comeback! In 2011 he implemented the cairo-based clip transformation (zoom/resize/crop) feature in the viewer. Lubosz is quite experienced with OpenGL, Blender and GStreamer, as you can see on his blog and…
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How do you visually represent a project's timeline?
Here is a fun example to illustrate why software development in general is a complex endeavour: You think you’re going to fix a tiny problem: “hey, maybe we could make ‘s welcome dialog look a bit nicer“. Eventually, someone proposes a design or idea that looks interesting, and you realize that to truly realize it,…