Quick GUADEC report.

As I sit here in a currently very wet London manning the fort, the rest of the OH gang are over in Istanbul, Turkey attending this years GUADEC - The GNOME users and developers european conference. Today was pretty much OH talk day with presentations by OH folks on Poky development tools, Clutter internals, GeoClue, and GEGL.

By all accounts so far, the talks went well and were very well received. Well done folks! Just don’t forget my Turkish delight..!

Its rumored a number of OHMen hitched a ride with the gang to Istanbul. There looking for nice new homes. If you think you can offer one, kindly grab and convince one of the various OH people at the conference.

Obama visits Vernier

Senator Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to our good friends at Vernier (makers of the Labquest device).

Seems he got the chance to play with a Poky and GNOME Mobile powered Labquest and attach his signature to one:

More info on this visit; here, here and here.

OHMen Arrived.

The OHMen arrived this week at the office. Limited to just 50 men, they’ll soon be departing to our various friends around the world.

If one lands on your doorstep for adoption, please take good care of him and in return he’ll help you out — he’s blessed with OH super powers dont you know!

(Um…)

Bossa Conference Video

Spotted on YouTube, a short promotional film on last months Open Bossa open source conference in Brazil. Can you spot OH’s Pippin and Andrew ?

Clutter at OSCON

As previously mentioned; Tomas’s submitted ‘Clutter: Breathing Life into User Interfaces‘ talk has now been accepted for this years O’Reilly OSCON open source convention as part of the emerging topics track.

Also OSCON this year features the first Open Mobile Exchange. Hosted by Jeff Waugh, its described as ‘a one-day event devoted to exploring the nexus of where mobile meets business, technology, the Web, and open source.‘. Im sure some OH folks will be attending.

Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

Paul from OH will be attending the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit next week at the UT Supercomputing Center, Austin, Texas.

As part of the summit, the third GNOME Mobile summit will also be taking place. Further details can be found in the press release and schedule.

Coming Soon..

The OH Merchandising dept has been hard at work. Forget T-Shirts, toys are the new must have promotional item. Currently in production;

OHMAN:

Poky Beaver:

Final ‘builds’ should appear soon. Watch this space.

World Tour 2008

The new year has only just started and it seems already OpenedHand folks have a pretty strong schedule of conference appearances across the globe. Currently the outlook is;

Linux Conf Austrailia, 28th Jan - 2nd Feb
Rob Bradford will be talking about Anjuta and Clutter
Done! - videos of talks: here and here.

FOSDEM, Brussels, 23rd - 24th February
Emmanuele Bassi will be presenting on Clutter - also in the GNOME Dev room catch OH related talks on GUPnP and GEGL, More info

GTK Hackfest Meeting, Berlin, 10th - 14th March
Emmanuele Bassi will be attending and OpenedHand sponsoring, More info

Open Source in Mobile, San Fransisco, 11th - 12th March
Matthew Allum will be presenting a Developer showcase on Clutter, More Info

Bossa08, Brazil, 16th - 19th March
Øyvind Kolås will be presenting about Clutter Internals, More info

OSCON, Portland, 21st - 25th July
Clutter talk submitted by Tomas Frydych - just hoping it will be accepted.

Q&A Page live

Our Q&A page is now Live. Its basically a posh FAQ containing answers to common questions we get asked about OpenedHand and what we do.

OpenedHand Christmas 2007

Its customary at OpenedHand that around the festive season we take some time away from the keyboards, get all the team togeather and spend some time indulging in activities that dont involve coding.

This year we spent a day putting 5000 pieces of Lego togeather:

…and the next shooting arrows, clay pigeons and driving 4×4’s and quad bikes around a muddy field in Kent.

Finally the evening was spent in the local pub enjoying a fine christmas meal.

A very merry Christmas to all!