This blog post has been floating around as a draft for several years. It eventually split off into a presentation at GUADEC 2022 , titled Offline learning with GNOME and Kolibri ( YouTube ). In that presentation, Manuel Quiñones and I explained how Endless OS reaches a unique audience by providing Internet-optional learning resources, and we provided an overview of our work with Kolibri. This post…
I attended GUADEC 2024 last month in Denver, Colorado. I thought I d write about some of the highlights for me. It was definitely the smallest GUADEC I ve been to, and it was unusual in some other ways too, such as having several hybrid presentations, with remote and in-person presenters sharing the stage. That took some adjusting, but it worked well, even if I missed some of the energy of past…
I spent a week at GUADEC 2022 in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was an excellent conference, with some good talks, good people, and a delightful hallway track. I think everyone was excited to see each other in person after so long, and for many attendees, this was closer to home than GUADEC has ever been. For this event, I was sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, so many thanks to them as well as my…
My annual Dropbox renewal date was coming up, and I thought to myself I m working with servers all the time. I shouldn t need to pay someone else for this. I was also knee deep in a math course, so I felt like procrastinating. I m really happy with the result, so I thought I would explain it for anyone else who wants to do the same. Here s what I was aiming for: Safe, convenient archiving for big…
Well, it s September, so I guess it s time to call it quits with that whole summer thing. This has been a really nice few months. I m very grateful that I could participate in Google Summer of Code this year with my project to build a shiny new Break Timer application for GNOME 3 . This was meant to be a picture of Fall s first day of torrential wind and rain, but the rain stopped as soon as I…
I m nearing the end of a very busy few weeks, and getting very close to that soft pencils down date! With school starting up again this hasn t been my most productive week on the GNOME Break Timer front, but I m pretty happy with what s been done. First, most importantly, Jasper and the GNOME admins helped me get to set up on gnome.org s infrastructure! This is really exciting to me, because…