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Geographic fun everyone!

We're making nice progress in GeoClue in GnomeSummit. Lots of people got interested in the idea, and a lot of lively brainstorming and excitement: "So I want to make GWeather show your current weather automatically, based on your location!" etc.. Awesome!

Happy Hackers brainstorming GeoClue

One of our projects is to have our hacker community more location aware, and one step in that is to have our blogs geotagged. So go, get the GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress (if anyone knows other blog engines that support this, let us know!) - and start tagging your blog entries with location. Then we can make PlanetGnome show our locations, as well as plotting ourselves on the PlanetMap.

It's great that one of the GeoRSS plugin authors contacted us also, and he is talking with the GeoRSS.org people to try to get some common agreement on how the XMLRPC weblog API could support this information as well. Neat to have co-operation between the Linux Desktop and Blogging communities!
So go, get the plugin and start being geo-aware. I want to see us swarming to Birmingham like a bunch of bees on the map during next Guadec!