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Today I participated in the CodeGuru Extreme contest at the Weizmann Institute and took 2nd place.
Congratulations to all of the other winners!

Seif has done some very neat work on Zeitgeist lately. I’ve been away from coding in order to take care of personal work, but here are a few of the items on my TODO list:
1. Implicit tagging of files/documents- There are endless mountains of information on the user’s computer and on the web that can [...]

Two months ago, I began working on GNOME Zeitgeist with Seif Lotfy. We were frustrated about usability problems with the current GNOME desktop, and we had several ideas about how we wanted to fix them. Under guidance from Thorsten Prante and Federico Mena-Quintero, we began programming a Python prototype.

Over time, we experimented with different interface [...]

Just to provide a quick visual roundup on what’s been going in with Universal Applets the past week, here are a few snapshots of recent changes.

I just saw this email on GNOME’s Desktop Development mailing list:

> Then we can build on top of that to provide locations so you can
> switch the usage profile, the proxy configuration, VPN settings and
> other stuff basing on where you sit (and get bonus points for
> detecting locations basing on stuff like current wireless [...]

As promised, here are the completed slides from my presentation at the GNOME Summit. Alternatively, you can view the slides online via Slideshare.
Beginning Development & Documentation Barriers
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I’m blogging from the GNOME Boston Summit. There are some neat projects being demoed, but more on that in later posts.
I just gave a last minute lightning talk on the problems with GNOME for people who want to begin developing. It went extremely well, and we’re hoping to have a full break-out session later.
I’ll upload [...]

There have been a lot of neat discussions going on at the GUI hackfest over the past few days. A lot of it is now available on the wiki, so be sure to check it out.

Following the trend:
I’m at the airport waiting for my flight to New York and then Boston. I’ve already been through airport security and got questioned on the names of my siblings, language, school, etc. etc. and in only another few hours, I’ll be attending the GNOME User Experience Hackfest- my first open source event of [...]

Quick note to everyone attending the GNOME Boston events: After working things out with both the Foundation and school, I finally booked my tickets and I’m also going to be able to attend the summit following the hackfest.
There’s been some discussion lately on the Ubuntu Art mailing list about a new icon set. The icons [...]