Gnome website and CMS questions
So, the Gnome website apparently needs a new engine.
Henri wrote a nice analysis and commentary of Midgard CMS and how it would work for this case. Check it out.
I think we should also think a bit deeper here: we could possibly have some CMS-like functionality on the desktop as a method of sharing information, perhaps calendars etc. It would be nice for example, to be able to use something like zeroconf/bonjour (or whatever the "hey, I can see people in the same LAN! -stuff is called) and have a nice "My public stuff" -webpage generated by the desktop. I know this example is not particularly great, but since Midgard uses some Gnome components already, maybe there's something we could think of.
And maybe if we use it on gnome.org, there might be some interesting components on midgard side and some desktop tools on gnome side to make it easier to share information?
Airventure and Flickr
EAA Airventure 2006 - the Big Annual Happening of general aviation is currently ongoing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the US of A. I found a Flickr group that hopefully gathers a lot of interesting photos from the event. As flying is one of my interests and passions, the stuff presented there naturally gets my attention. 
A lot of interesting announcements seem to occur this year, and two interesting ones come from the good old Cessna - A concept light aircraft for the new "spot pilot" class, which looks interesting and cute, but even more unexpected and cool was apparently a surprise flyby of the new rumoured Cessna 5-seater light aircraft, that looks pretty sweet at least from a distance. They apparently didn't even land, just did a quick "flash" and went away. That one looks very nice too. Mmm.. now if I only had the money to get one.. 
There are some more pics of the LSA plane here and some photos of the other plane's flyby here. Pretty thing that bigger bird, if you ask me..
2002: A Barbican Odyssey
Originally uploaded by docpi
Oh man. This photo, taken by Daniel, is really interesting in a strange way. It just captures you very strongly. Wow.
They made it!
The DeathMonkey race is over, two of three guys are in Gibraltar, and even the third got very close before having his vechicle stolen in Pamplona. Duh..
"Bob" aka "The guy I did the GUADEC talk with" used his Nokia 770 to blog from the trip, looks like it was a useful tool for that. Need to have some blogging tools for offline writing though.
Congrats for the achievement and thanks for the entertainment. 
Quick maps
Stumbled on this pretty nice site which lets you plot stuff on a map, using the google maps API and lets you either link to the map (like this) or embed it on your own site (let's see how this works, below - and whether planet likes it or not..)
Edit: Ok, looks like planet does not include the embedded iframe, perhaps it's a wise move to avoid abuse.. it would have been nice though. Jeff, maybe you can have a look at it sometime? For everyone interested who is reading this through planet gnome or maemo, click the post title above to see the embedded map as well. For those interested, it's our flight route we had on saturday while visiting the annual pilots' fly-in in Jämijärvi, Finland. Some photos of the event can be found here. (heh, I used *all* my blog categories in this post, except for "work", since I am on vacation, of course.. 
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This would have been handy during Guadec, for the ice cream case. So much easier than taking screenshots and using the Gimp to plot stuff on the map..
Now, what if this was combined to some "friends" -system so that everyone who was a member of the "guadec" group could have added their own interesting notes and tags on the map? That would have been very interesting...
Bought a bike
Bicycle speedometer / timer / calorimeter...
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
So I bought a new bike for those home - train station journeys on work days. The Bike Store Guy gave me this speedometer/cyclocomputer for free as a gift. What a wonderful and fitting name it has!
Free web services
Luis, I agree with you - we need to have free alternatives too. But the small, open web service lacks one important aspect - the other people you know and love. I think the reason most people are excited about Flickr, for example, is because it is of course easy to use, but also that it is so easy to share your own photos with it. You have an account, and most of your friends do too. All that is left is a matter of finding their usernames and checking the "friend" checkbox. Or like at Guadec, someone just added a group and came up with a tag, and people started tagging their photos with it - so it was possible to follow the feed from everyone.
Yes, we do need free services. But it would be very important that we get this social part right. The services need to network somehow, and also they need to somehow link to those big ones. It's about people communicating, after all things.
This is what we do with planet gnome, it networks our blogs, of which most are free software, using a common API and protocol (RSS). This way we can share our ideas together. Otherwise it won't work. We need a way to "planet" our galleries and files too. But the stuff needs to also link with the Big Company's service, because our non-geek friends use that for now.
I have had worse work lunches..:)
I have had worse work lunches..:)
Originally uploaded by tigert
Luckily the nice weather from GUADEC continued also in Finland, and it was very nice to have the work lunch outside in the nearby lunch restaurant. Finnish summer is nice, and usually there is not that much snow during that time.. (it's +24ºC right now... )
No, I havent forgotten you either, planet gnome!
Thanks to Ravi for reminding me we also need more desktop wallpapers.. duh.
Wallpaper again..
Originally uploaded by tigert.
Maybe some of you Nokia 770 users will enjoy this very summer themed wallpaper I did - I shot it this morning when fetching the dogs back from my mom's place (they were having a vacation there during GUADEC).
The wallpaper should work nicely with the new OS2006 upgrade that was recently released.
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