Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early; mail, bit of code hackery - good, cleaned up some
horrible snafus in my yet-another-thread-pool-impl. Lunch. Sync with
Tor & Kohei, caught up with Kendy; customer/partner call. Chat
with Thorsten, and massaged text.
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Sophie finally up-loaded all the great content from the
conference to the
LibreOffice
Youtube Channel. My Keynote from the LibreOffice conference: Money fairies,
Consultancy & Product - or - LibreOffice
from Collabora.
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Interested to watch Igor Zaika's talk on the Microsoft
Office cross-platform architecture
which seems to make a lot more sense these days.
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Mail chew; misc. calls, reviewed code tried to get to
some hacking, more mail; sync. call with Philippe; built ESC
agenda (rather late), ESC call.
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Really pleased to see CloudOn's Awesome
iOS App released incorporating LibreOffice,
and a ton of work that has been done by the community, Collabora,
Igalia, Synezip and others. Nice to see the Old vs. New
screenshots too.
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Up; call with Tor, quick mail skim. Out to see Auntie
Nicky, Joy & family at a nearby farm shop - had a lovely time
with them. Home, E-mail, analytics, partner call, more E-mail.
Set off to drive for home; worked in the car.
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Up lateish; walked up into the town, played in the
Castle gardens. Home for lunch; bit of work; sprayed the
beams in the loft with woodworm killer so Father can insulate
his garage. Watched James Herriot movies with the babes.
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Out into town for a pint & a nice meal with J.
lovely to spend some time together.
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Up early; moved lathe bits around on skate-board; out for a
walk along a beautiful river, with several rope swings for babes out
over the water. Back for lunch; mail chew.
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Worked at mail, built a consulting agenda; product team meeting,
consulting team meeting; sync. with Markus & lfrb, sync. with Matus,
and Nemeth. Lots of good work going on.
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Up earlyish; off to St Andrews, Starbeck for a fine service.
Back for a large roast lunch, out swimming at Sandra's & moved a
rather heavy lathe bed with Father; drilled some holes in a
bee-hive for weighing it. Home for tea, put babes to bed.
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Out in the morning to collect some bee-keeping equipment
with Father for Christmas presents; back for lunch. Out for a
walk nearby, climbed out onto some trees that had washed
down the river and grounded with the babes. Watched an old
film about Scott of the Antarctic in the evening.
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Up late; mail chew; worked on a proposal; then on a report.
Encouraged to see the XFastSerializer work Matus did on master taking
XLSX export time ~30% faster, nice - should make it quicker to run the
profiling tests too.
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Mail chew; call with Michal, then Tim; lunch. Poked at some
code too briefly; back to SOW drafting.
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Intensive E-mail chew; built ESC stats & agenda; lunch.
Partner call, sync. with Kendy. Out into Soham for a parents'
evening with the family.
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Up early; partner call, mail chew - thrashed through the
backlog of tasks, chat with Tor, contract review; mail.
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Out to help with Cub Scouts in the evening; Miriam is one,
somewhat surreal inactivity & computer discussion
- meeting the formal parent/child
ratios I suppose.
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Slept; somewhere here missed most of a day and several
team meetings; chewed through E-mail and a big back-log of
off-line work. Partner call on the way home; finally back to put
lovely daughers to bed.
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J. running a PCC training session; call with parents
& David; sleep.
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Breakfast, listened to a great sermon on Haggai;
Arthur kindly picked me up; visited his family & home, and
out for a fine improvisational pasta lunch with Gabriella.
On to a Dinosaur park & wax-work museum, then off to the
falls together; a lovely day out.
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Flight to Sao Paolo diverted due to lack of fuel to
stay in a holding pattern; thankfully re-fuelled and managed to
make my onward flight (also rather delayed).
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Up earlyish; the older I get, the worse I handle jet-lag,
even an ~insignificant 4hrs & having slept on the plane: hmm.
Breakfast, mail chew. Out for a quick coach tour of the Itaipu Dam -
a really incredible feat of construction. Its hard to get a feel
for a ~200m tall Dam until you see it. Amazing that the concrete
was mixed with flake
ice not water; an extraordinary piece of engineering.
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Back to the Hotel, out for another pleasant meat experience.
Mail chew, call with Markus; poked at VCL timers / idle handlers.
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Early to rise; quick call, mail, breakfast; continued
on slideware - really thrilled to use
droidAtScreen
to demo the LibreOffice on Android viewer.
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Off to the venue in the coach; prepped slides some more,
gave a talk - rather a hard act to follow at the end of the
previous talk: a (male) strip-tease, mercifully aborted before it
went too far. Presented my slides, informed by a few recent
local discussions:
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Quick lunch, caught up with mail, customer call, poked
Neil & Daniel, continued catching up with the mail &
interaction backlog.
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Conference ended - overall an extremely friendly &
positive experience, in a lovely location - most impressed by my
first trip to Brazil; cudos to the organizers; and really great to
spend some time with Eliane & Olivier on their home turf.
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Out for dinner & drinks in the evening; finally
managed to internalize the canonical Brazilian rendition of
LibreOffice: Lee-Br-Off-See.
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To the venue, crazy handing out of collateral, various
talks with people; Advisory Board call, LibreOffice anniversary
Cake cutting and eating (by massed hordes).
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It is extraordinary, and encouraging to see how many young
ladies are at the conference, and (hopefully) getting engaged with
Free Software: never seen so many at other conferences. As an
unfortunate down-side: was amused to fobb off an un-solicited offer
of marriage from a 15yr old: hmm.
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Chewed some mail, bus back in the evening; worked on slides
until late, for talk tomorrow.
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Up early; mail chew, interesting breakfast with the
Krita guy. Freshened up, met up with Eliane & Olivier,
coach to the dam; got the booth setup; partner call. Lunch
with Olivier; booth duty. Enjoyed the opening talks; back to
the booth to re-charge. Out in the evening for dinner, kindly
driven by Artur.
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Chewed some mail, great things going on while I'm
asleep: seemingly I should sleep / wander off more often.
Hacked a little on my backlog of things that need work.
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Flight to FOZ, Brazil appears to be a lovely place;
hacked on the flight, taxi to the hotel, hacked in the hotel
at length - fun. Mail chew too; call with partner .
Poked at tiled rendering foo until late; sleep.
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Mail chew; call with Kendy, Laszlo, Tor; mail. Lunch with J.
team call; more mail chewage, sync. with Matus & Andras. Hurried
packing and dropped by J. for some train/plane/etc. to Brazil /
LatinoWare.
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Arrived rather early at LHR; had an interesting chat to a
young movie maker off to Jordan; enjoyed rather a good sleep on a
lengthy TAM flight to San Paolo.
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Off to NCC, extremely tired; Tony spoke. Back for a roast
lunch; applied slugging, put up some lights & a clock in H's
room, fixed M's cupboard. Dinner, showed Babes some Ball Brothers,
put babes to bed. Sermon; sleep early.
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Lie-in, large breakfast: porridge & boiled egg; off to Brandon
for a wander through the forest, and play in the playground. Home for a fine
pizza lunch. Dropped E. off at a sleep-over.
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Plugged away at E-mail, and worked late on a profiling problem.
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Mail; admin, booked hack-fest flights for Toulouse and Munich.
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Dead pleased with CloudOn's Teaser
Video of their LibreOffice based product for iOS - coming
exciting.
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Plugged at mail, partner call, more mail. Lunch, mgmt team
call, wrote a LXF column on open source civility. ESC call, merged
some patches & back-ported some others.
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Up early, sleeping poorly; read mail, caught up with J.
read profiles & build a report. Shuffled the sales pipeline,
there's always room for another entry if you need something awesome
doing on LibreOffice.
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Partner / project call. Dinner with the babes, up late
shuffling E-mail - no sight of any code, sadly; sales work variously.
Somehow really encouraged to see the prototype LibreOffice
4.4 feature page a month before feature freeze. Worked dead late.
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Broken, feverish sleep; up; feverish E-mail activity.
Sync. with Kendy, team meeting, skipped lunch, chat with Kohei,
another team meeting. Friendly chat, partner call, dinner, worked
late.
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NCC, ran the older kids bible-study; re-capped John 1:1-18
and had fun; home for a big lunch. Played Othello with the babes,
started to feel somewhat unwell, bed - v. groggy.
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Worked on a proposal, slugged at home for much of the day.
Managed to blow most of the sockets in the kitchen - MCB seems to
be broken; or was it plugging in my laptop PSU ? hmm.
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Mail chew, read commits on master (always encoruaging), misc.
E-mail. Into Cambridge, another box arrived, got the cluster setup
to a degree, made a mess of the server room with non-rack-mount
hardware, got several windows' installed & an openSUSE 13.2
(accidentally).
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Encouraging catch-up with Matus; home early, put babes to
bed, call in the evening with Thorsten.
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Chewed mail slowly. Looked for a replacement battery for this
iBUYPOWER CZ-28, thank God for
dmidecode
- Chassis is really
a MicroStar Int'l MS-176K, leading to BTY-M6D; turns out it's easier to un-plug the
battery and read the serial number from it though.
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Churned through mail & project updates. Lunch. Catch-up
with Philippe, ESC call, partner call. Arun around for bible study.
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Mail chew, call with Laszlo, train into Cambridge, got started on
some hardware setup in the office; installing Windows is always a
depressingly poor experience. TDF board call. Always deeply encouraged
by the compound failure of Windows - installed the latest video
drivers, and an un-bootable, hard-locked system; nice. Waited late into
the night in the office, home by train.
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Worked even later on tiled rendering performance / tests;
amazingly it seems we're rendering invisible progress bars on document
load, and rulers that don't show up in tiles and; bed.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)