The group picture of the Debconf11 has been up for 33 hours now and finally I also had a moment of time to make the numbered version so you can add peoples names to it. I am pleased to say it is the one of the largest Debconf group photos yet with 263 people and [...]
I had planned long for this Debconf and with the experience from the previous times I did all I could to reach one goal – minimise stress. I think I got it right this time. First of all I got my company (Accenture) pay for the whole thing, so I did not have to worry [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The following is an invitation to the Latvian Ubuntu Bug Jam (in Latvian) sent for a bit of a wider circulation to catch people that monitor Planet Debian, but not Planet Ubuntu.lv. 27. martā LU Linux centrā notiks divi pasākumi vienā – Ubuntu Global Bug Jam Latvijas daļa un installfests. Global Bug Jam ir pasākums, [...]
As soon as my laptop came back from repairs, I started to feel better – being back with 1920×1200 resolution is great! NVidia is much more stable than ATi and Intel wireless is just great! And then last weekend I was in Berlin for the FFII board meeting and used the opportunity to see the [...]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Last night we celebrated Christmas with some friends by doing a lot of cooking – baking mostly. In the end we had some regular sweetbread dough and some gingerbread dough left over. On a whim I suggested to put them together – we rolled out both doughs very thin (3-4 mm), put them on top [...]
Tokkee and I are doing the mugshots this year and we need your cooperation. Mugshots are a great way for people to link the name to a face and remember that link even after several years. Liw did this as his project last year and it was great success – many people have now a [...]
Sunday, September 10, 2006
The I18N meeting in Extremadura is almost over – tomorrow everyone is leaving to the airport at different times. So, enjoy the group photo of the meeting. And if you click the photo, that will bring you to a Frickr photoset that contains all the other good photos that I took at this meeting. Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
This Friday I am invited to give a presentation to the annual conference of Latvian project leader association (LNPVA) about what can these project leaders learn from the free software development process. The core of the presentation will involve asking them to try participating in existing free software projects in order to gather understanding about [...]
This Saturday we had an installfest in LAKA with a topic of free games. It came to me to make my own top 10 of free Linux time wasting games that are packaged for Debian. Here we have the list for future reference: Honorable mention – Battle for Wesnoth: a turn based strategy game with [...]
Sunday, December 11, 2005
It looks like the Linux centre of the Latvian university in partnership with Latvian Open Source Association is going to throw a Free Code Christmas on 19th of December. Current idea is to make a mix of a social and technical event. The plan calls for two rooms – in one room a series of [...]
