Tag: management and business
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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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Pitivi status update for Q1 2014, fundraiser launch
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits! That took a fair amount of time to review and merge, believe me. Besides code cleanup, he also finished the port of the…
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Applying for a GSoC project is all about early involvement and commitment
This year, Pitivi‘s focus for GSoC projects will be a little bit different than in 2013. As you can see in our preliminary GSoC ideas page on the wiki, there is much less GStreamer (or GES) work involved, as we tried to focus on Pitivi UI work — easier, concrete projects, mostly only in Python.…
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Getting Things GNOME 0.3: retour vers le futur
J’aimerais tout simplement saluer le travail de l’équipe de développement derrière GTG, mon logiciel favori (si si, logiciel favori, point final ! Il est essentiel à ma survie). Pour vous donner le contexte, j’écrivais cette note personnelle dans Tomboy en 2006, suite à la lecture de Getting Things Done: Nostalgie? Tout à fait. Maintenant, retour vers le…
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Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source
I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the…
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Reducing our core apps' software inventory
In my free time, I try to help other open source projects get rid of accumulated weight from the years. At GUADEC 2012, I told the Epiphany devs that the 3.x series (with its new design direction/vision and the gradually improving WebKitGTK backend) would be the perfect opportunity to close massive amounts of old bug…
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Staring into the Axis' Abyss: the Railgun map
This blog post will not be picked up by the usual news sites. News sites don’t care about positive things, it is much more interesting to talk about impending doom. Don’t get me wrong, it is quite healthy and necessary to talk about these things, but it is also an opportunity for haters to come…
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Community involvement
Although PiTiVi is a FLOSS project developed entirely in the open (that is, everything is public/transparent), I have been told that it still feels intimidating for potential new contributors. Believe it or not, I spend a lot of time thinking about that and smoothing out that process. Sometimes I still find myself a bit surprised…
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Améliorer les performances de GTG
Pour les fans de la technique GTD de David Allen, Getting Things GNOME! est une révélation, un logiciel qui rend «sans douleur» l’ajout et la gestion de tâches. Je considère les fonctionnalités suivantes comme étant celles qui démarquent GTG des autres applications: La capacité d’utiliser un langage naturel, tel que “defer:20100224” ou “due:vendredi” (et on peut…