GUADEC

[Rodrigo Moya <rmoya tsai es>]

Hi all!

Well, here we are again after the GUADEC (I'd like to have one every
week or so). It's been really interesting and amazing to meet lots of
the GNOME developers, as well as to interchange ideas with them.

I met Vivien in the conference, and it was really great to talk directly
to each other without a computer in the middle. I really missed Stephan
(I thought you were coming) since it would have been fantastic to meet
the three, and Bruno, which has not done yet nothing for gnome-db, but
is working on understanding it to help us ASAP.
I also met some guys which wanted to help us, so I'm expecting mails
from them very soon (and this time nobody seemed drunk), specially Loïc,
a French guy who had a good knowledge of XML, so he'll be helping us on
this.
Only one bad thing: I did not meet any gnome-db user. Some people had
tried to compile or install it without success (mainly libgnomeprint
problem we've had), but no 'real' users were there. But as there are
many people on the list, I assume you are all users, or not?

Well, and the conclusion of all this, apart from wanting another GUADEC
ASAP, is: BONOBO. We must include it in gnome-db to make it work in
cooperation with other applications, and the things you can do with it
are amazing. The eazel people made a demo of what nautilus would look
like, and when he showed a custom MP3 playlist view in the file manager,
a big ovation started in the amphitheater, so this really finished to
convince me (and all the other hackers).

So, please study bonobo, as I'm doing myself.

Cheers